Well I am MOST definately not one of them. Having owned both 2700dpi
scanners and 4000 dpi scanners (both Polaroid and Nikon), the detail
available in a 4000dpi scan is incredible. Unless you're making small
prints, it does make a difference.
The area where I have disagreement is 16 bit vs 8 bit. I don't think 16 bit
gains you anything.
As for a new machine, what you need is process, memory and a reasonably fast
drive. You don't need a fancy graphics card.
My most recent purchase was a box stock Dell Dimension 2400. The bottom of
their line. It includes a P4-2.8Ghz/533 bus, 80 GB 7200 rpm drive and
integrated sound and video. Nothing particularly fancy, but very fast. I
use it primarily for rendering video and it is fast. You can spend more,
but for photo editing, it is quite good. I bought it with the 128MB minimum
and upgraded with another 512MB from other than Dell.
Total investment?
Under $450.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Processor advice for handling OM images
>
> Do you gain anything working with a 210 MB file? There are a lot of
> people out there who do not think you gain anything with 35mm above
> 2800 dpi. You could gain some working efficiency by downsizing your
> slide, doing an immediate exposure/contrast adjustment and changing to
> an 8 bit file. Maybe you could do some experiments that would help you
> free up some processing power.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
>
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