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[filmscanners] RE: Nikon Coolscan
There's no reason why buying a scanner would make one need Genuine Fractals,
but it does imply involvement with digital imaging, and likely interest in
GF on the part of the buyer. Better than getting a toaster.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
> From: David J. Littleboy
>
> I don't understand the point of GF in a scanner, although that may be
> because I'm scanning MF. It looks to me that scanned images are
> not as good
> (higher noise, lower sharpness) as digital camera images on a
> pixel-per-pixel basis. A 645 scan has 6000 x 8000 pixels or so, but my
> estimate is that it's only about twice (1.414 times linearly) as good as a
> 2000 x 3000 pixel D60 image. (4000 dpi scans of Provia look OK at 300dpi,
> but no better than 200 dpi prints of D60 images.)
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