RE: filmscanners: Downsampling vs averaging RE: Film Scanners and what they see.

2000-12-07 Thread Austin Franklin
> I always thought that down sampling consisted of some kind of averaging (of samples). It SHOULD work that way, if the system (hardware/firmware/driver) is designed properly. But, just as a note, when doing a pre-scan, I assure you it doesn't do it at full resolution...obviously, or it woul

filmscanners: Downsampling vs averaging RE: Film Scanners and what they see.

2000-12-07 Thread Oostrom, Jerry
Wait a minute, I always thought that down sampling consisted of some kind of averaging (of samples). I thought bicubic and bilinear and such terms could as well be related to down sampling as they could to upsampling. Now I wonder: how does downsampling work? Does it exist of sampling only one