Bob I'm surprised that a 6x8 tranny output required only 40mb My 8k film recorder needs a file sized 67mb to make a 6x8cm tranny without interpolation Even at this resolution I can tell the dupe from the original If side by side on a light box ! if viewed independently one simply can not tell but direct comparison by a "trained " eye will see the difference. Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Croxford" > I have also seen a digital dupe which output via LVT onto Velvia film. > Pixel counting was used so that the scan lines and output lines exactly > matched. The original and the dupe were indistinguishable. The file > size was very close to 40Mb for a 6x8cm piece of film. Allowing for the > fact that litho repro will never manage to pixel match we need a file > 1.4 times bigger for press. This is why so many of us standardise on > 55Mb files for uses like stock pictures where we don't know what size > the repro will be. I use 72Mb for Xpan to enable the image to be > cropped and still have good height. A magazine cover sale yesterday was > a vertical crop from a horizontal frame. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
