Digital BW, The Print

Hi Berel

While I agree with the first part of your post (don't exceed the
capabilities of your scanner), I don't believe that prints at 150 DPI (What
you get from a 4x5 scanned at 600 dpi, then printed to 16x20) will give you
"more than enough" resolution- more like just barely enough, if you are
lucky. Of course, YMMV.

Bill

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Berel Lutsky <berel.lutsky@...> wrote:

>
> Whatever "school of thought" one belongs to it is never a good idea to
> scan beyond the optical scan capabilities of what ever scanner you are
> using - many of the maximum settings for flatbed scanners involve
> interpolated information which can degrade the quality of your image -
> whether you do use the maximum optical scanning capabilities of your
> scanner - should depend more upon the intended final use for the image
> - ie what size(s) of output you are considering - at this point it
> is the quality of the optics of your scanner that will become
> important - and there is a difference - especially in flatbed scanners
> used for 4 x 5 negatives - a consumer grade scanner that offers a lot
> of dpi - with poor optics will yield a lot of pixels and overall poor
> image quality - for 4x5 on a good scanner 16 bit at 1200 dpi will be
> more than enough resolution for a very very large print - 600 dpi will
> probably be more than enough for a 16 x 20 in most cases.
>
>  
>



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Regards,

Bill Morse
Wm. Morse Editions

http://www.MorseEditions.com/


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