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You shouldn't be scanning your negative at 360 dpi. You do want to END UP with a ready for the printer image that's sized at 360 dpi. For example, an 11 x 17 image area at 360 dpi would be about 72 megabytes. To arrive at that kind of resolution, you'd have to scan a 645 negative at a relatively high res. I'd guess 3000 dpi minimum. What I would do is scan the neg at the maximum the scanner allows, then downsize slightly in PhotoShop if necessary.


I have to admit that I find this stuff very confusing. 35mm slides end up at 120Mb and 645 at 342Mb. Nikon suggest in the brochure for the scanner to set the output size of the scan to the printing size (eg A4), and set DPI to 360. Is this a good idea and what is gained (if anything) over using the output size you get from the scanner at 4000DPI and adjust image size in photoshop to whatever printing size in question?

Pål

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