I would guess he is refering to drum scans. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan van Wijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:15 AM Subject: Re: Pentax DSLR: e-mail from Pentax USA > Hi Herb > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:25:40 -0500, Herb Chong wrote: > > > > >i took a one day photo workshop today. the guy shoots large format 4x5 and > >scans his slides at 8000 dpi, the optical resolution of his scanner. > >anything less, he says, and he loses quality that he can tell on his > >exhibition prints, now of which are less than 8x10 inches. > > If the first sentence are about the same subject, so you actually mean > 4x5 (inches) slides scanned at 8000 dpi, this guy must have quite > a large computersystem. > > In my calculations this would result in files between 1Gb and 4Gb each > depending on color-depth ... > > Hard to swallow for imaging-programs and eating diskspace like mad ... > > Or do you actually mean 35mm slides ? > > Regards, JvW > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery > >
