[filmscanners] RE: 3 year wait

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

> Austin,
>
> I am not familiar with the internal workings of film recorders to claim
> knowledge; but I have discovered that different 4K film recorders can have
> different size lights which effect the brightness and the amount of detail
> that the film recorder sensors can pick up - thus the actual effective
> resolution the recorder has.  I believe that the 4K figure is in
> LPI or line
> pairs not ppi;

Hi Laurie,

I believe it's neither LPI or PPI...but simply number of pixels of the
imager (on the long side).  The LIP or PPI depends on the magnification
(film format).  I do not believe that film recorders dither, halftone or any
of that either.

Regards,

Austin

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