My suggestion is to scan your negatives and slides at the highest setting - yes, you will have to downsample and lost some information but you would be losing it anyway by scanning at a lower setting.
Scan and save as a TIF for archive purposes - then adjust, downsample, sharpen and post. Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Durling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:08 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more. | On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:49:22 -0400, you wrote: | | > | >> Hold on - thanks to you all, maybe I DO understand this. If scanned | >> at 72 dpi, even a 4x6 print would need quite a bit of interpolation to | >> get it up to a good screen size, ergo crap. Is that correct? | > | >No, not interpolation. Interpolation ADDS data. Decimation removes data, | >so scanning at 72dpi would remove data...if your scanner is 2700DPI and you | >scan at 72DPI, you are only using 1 for every 37.5 pixels! | > | >Are you scanning prints? | | | On my flatbed, yes. Usually at 150 dpi. But now with the FS2710 | obviously I'm only doing slides and negs, which is what brought up all | these questions. | | I guess I'm missing the point here. If I were to scan even a 4x6 | print at 72 dpi, and then want to display it anything larger than | 288x432 pixels, wouldn't interpolation be necessary? Even more with a | slide or a negative? | | | Ken
