On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:02:31PM -0500, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 09:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > When I speak about medium format digital, I mean (or meant to say) film > > to > > drum scanned medium format. I was astonished at the size of the files > > when I > > had my 6x7 negs scanned the first time. They eat up ZIP 250 disks. > > Our little Polaroid SprintScan 120 (which was $4000 CDN) puts out files > in the neighborhood of 200 megs from 6x7. I love it. Set to 8000dpi > interpolated and 48 bit colour, the file size is up over a gig! More > information than I can use with my printer, but that's a good thing.
Question unrelated to cost of digital: what's the purpose of interpolation in the scanner, versus interpolating/resampling on the computer? -- Francis Tang, Postgraduate Research Student. LFCS, Div. of Informatics, Uni. of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. Tel: +44 131 6505185. Fax: +44 131 6677209. Office: 1603, JCMB, KB. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/fhlt/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
