Philippe Debeerst
27-Aug-2012, 11:23
Hallo,
Perhaps this item might have been discussed over here, but I could not find the right answer in the postings, or my English isn't just good enough to understand the comments...
So, I have a Epson V750 with the fluid mount accessory, of which I am very well satisfied. The scanning software is SilverFast v6.6.2r5 on a Mac Pro OSX 10.6.8 platform.
Right now I am mainly scanning B&W negs coming out my Linhof Technorama 617 II, a wonderful camera BTW.
I set the scanning scale at 350% what gives me an output format of +/- 61 cm long at 360 dpi and files of about 50MB in 16 bit gray. While pushing the ctrl key (MAC), the resolution is shown as 1600 dpi, I suppose that is the resolution as would it be set at 100%, right?
The format of 61 cm long and 21 cm high suites me perfectly, these photo's will never be printed larger (why should they?).
Now my question: everywhere I reed about scanning at 4200 dpi (= at 100% ?) and higher, does this means than the final scale compared to 360 dpi will be far more than twice the scale of 350% cm, I am working on now, which would be about 900% scale (at 360 dpi) then?
If so, what's the purpose of scanning at these high resolutions, if not for larger reproduction scales (unwanted) and hard to handle large file sizes?
I have a feeling that I must be overlooking something somewhere...
Anyway, thanks for the replies!
Perhaps this item might have been discussed over here, but I could not find the right answer in the postings, or my English isn't just good enough to understand the comments...
So, I have a Epson V750 with the fluid mount accessory, of which I am very well satisfied. The scanning software is SilverFast v6.6.2r5 on a Mac Pro OSX 10.6.8 platform.
Right now I am mainly scanning B&W negs coming out my Linhof Technorama 617 II, a wonderful camera BTW.
I set the scanning scale at 350% what gives me an output format of +/- 61 cm long at 360 dpi and files of about 50MB in 16 bit gray. While pushing the ctrl key (MAC), the resolution is shown as 1600 dpi, I suppose that is the resolution as would it be set at 100%, right?
The format of 61 cm long and 21 cm high suites me perfectly, these photo's will never be printed larger (why should they?).
Now my question: everywhere I reed about scanning at 4200 dpi (= at 100% ?) and higher, does this means than the final scale compared to 360 dpi will be far more than twice the scale of 350% cm, I am working on now, which would be about 900% scale (at 360 dpi) then?
If so, what's the purpose of scanning at these high resolutions, if not for larger reproduction scales (unwanted) and hard to handle large file sizes?
I have a feeling that I must be overlooking something somewhere...
Anyway, thanks for the replies!