How much do you want to spend. You can get upwards to 100,000ppi scans but they cost a small fortune. Of the run of the mill film scanners I believe the Minoltas at 5200ppi were the highest. However a well done 4000ppi scan should allow fine prints up to about any size you would want. Somewhere about 14-15k ppi is about the limit of normal film as you are actually recording the grain structure.
Rebekah wrote: > I'm going to send away a few slides and some film for scanning. > What's the best resolution out there that I should be looking for? I > see 3000dpi and 4000dpi, is there a larger number that I'm likely to > find? If I have a good, sharp photograph scanned at 4000dpi, how big > can I make it before it starts to look bad? Thanks in advance guys :) > > > rg2 > > > P.S. Does anyone personally recommend any scanning companies that you > send your film to or do you all just have your own scanners...? > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
