Re: Which scanners REALLY provide 36 bit output? HP?

From: Steve Underwood (steveu@coppice.org)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 19:00:06 PST

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    Bob Washburne wrote:

    > But any software enhansement package must deal with the raw data and the
    > originals will no longer be around to rescan. So it is imperative that
    > I extract as much data as possible now while I still can. Ideally, I
    > would like to scan photos down to the emulsion resolution which would
    > represent all the information possible. For 19th century photography I
    > believe 1200 dpi comes very close to this.

    This is about the resolution of most modern emulsions (unless you are using
    super slow specialist films). I doubt the 19th centruy emulsions have
    anything like that resolution. 19th century lenses are incapable of
    resolving this well, anyway. Such a high resolution would only make sense
    when scanning documents, or maybe paintings.

    The resolution of most film images are much poorer than most people
    realise.

    Regards,
    Steve

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