Dick,
The relatively low resolution most appropriate for web images seems to make
the high resolution from a thousands of dpi film scanner redundant, unless
of course you're blowing up a tiny portion of the original's total area.
Nick Smoliga
smoliga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SvT TF12 - Investment Projects
931.454.6947
1103 Avenue B
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-1400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Wright [SMTP:wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 1:47 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] scanners for dummies
>
>
> >
> >What do you want to scan? Flatbeds are reflective devices. The light
> >shines on the item being scanned and the reflected light is read and
> >made into the digital image which is then twice removed from the film.
> >
> >Film scanners read the film and are capable of much better digital
> >images because the info they get is directly from the film. The
> digital
> >image is then the first generation image from the film.
> >
> >If you are scanning a photo on a flatbed you are at the mercy of the
> >printer and sometimes the printed image is not as sharp as the image
> on
> >the film.
> >
> >If you are serious about digital image from film, a film scanner is
> the
> >way to go.
> >
> >Bob
> >--
>
> That's all I wanted to know, thanks.
>
> I just want to get photos onto a web page I'm slowly building.
>
> Be seeing you.
>
> Dirk Wright
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