Fine by me - you just have to know how to work out the math (which you do).
Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "SKID Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 6:13 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more. | "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." wrote: | | > Screen dpi is not necessarily 72dpi - it depends on the size of the screen and |what resolution you set your monitor to - consider a 17" monitor at 600x800 pixels v. |set at 1200x1600 pixels - the second will have double the dpi of the first. | > | > Ignore dpi for web use - pay attention to the pixel dimensions of the image only, |e.g. 480x640 or whatever. | | No matter which set of parameters (pixel count or 72 dpi) you still end up with |images of different sizes on monitors set on to different resolutions. It finally |makes no difference which set you use. I say use whichever is more comfortable | to you. | | When we scan for web viewing, we scan at 72 dpi, to whatever final dimensions we |want the image to be. If we want a 4x6 print to be viewed at 8x12, we would scan it |at 200% and 72 dpi. We use a 42 bit Microtek Scanmaker X12 USL scanner, ant | it works well. On our old, cheaper 24 bit Umax we could not do this.....On that |one, we needed to scan at full resolution and then convert in Photoshop. | | | Harvey Ferdschneider | partner, SKID Photography, NYC | |
