4000 dpi should easily be good for prints up to 16" on the longest side. I have a nikon coolscan 4000 and i've done 16 x 20 prints of excellent quality. You have to start with a good slide / negative though since at those enlargement ratios the smallest flaws are going to become visible... e.g. if your focusing is slightly off its going to show up.
Also I usually find i get better results with slide film as opposed to negatives. Somehow the scans end up being cleaner (less grainy) and the colours more accurate. Maybe that's just me coz I shoot much more slide film than negative film. On 9/18/07, Rebekah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...? > > > -- > "the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Regards Patrick Genovese -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
