Quoting keith_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> Okay then. If that's how you define it, that makes sense.
> 
> However, let's do the numbers. If that bug that Davuid Mann showed in 
> his image was indeed 1/2 mm long, how large was the original image?!
> 
> The bug, as shown on my monitor, measures about 2.5 cm long, which 
> indicates I'm looking at an enlargement of about 50X... We agree on that?
> 
> Since the extent of David's image on my monitor is already 15 cm 
> (5.0955") vertically, that must mean the _original_ 100% unresized print 
> or image was some 295" vertically!
> 
> Somehow I don't think that's correct.

Of course it is not correct. The phosphor dots on your screen are placed further
apart than the pixels in Dave's scanner.

Jostein


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