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[Boris Liberman]

Hi!

The town where I live has only one Pro Foto Shop. It has many Foto 
Shops, but only one grades itself as Pro. Anyway, my two most recent 
films were scanned at 4000dpi with Nikon CoolScan 4000. Two days ago I 
was taking my most recent film (from which by the way I published to 
M35/2.8 shots)... So I asked the guy why he is doing so huge scans - 
roughly 24 MP (mega pixels). He responded that he is going to be 
scanning all his films in this way, because customers keep 
complaining. Also, it seems to me, that except time it makes little 
difference at which resolution to scan. This scanner has loading 
mechanism that can take a whole film frame by frame automatically. So 
he can just load it up and come some time later to burn the CD.

So by now, just for $8 I have my films processed and scanned so that I 
have plenty of pixels to play with. Of course, this is still worse 
than what I would do personally for myself, but still it is very good 
I think.

Though now, no matter what, I have to spend at least one hour armed 
with Healing and Cloning tools, if you know what I mean <vbg>.

Just thought I'd let you know...

Boris