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[filmscanners] RE: New cheap Minolta 5400ppi 35mm scanner
> From: Les Berkley
>
> Thanks for the heads-up. Isn't 5400 dpi a bit of overkill though? Any
> idea if this will be available in the States? I'll be in Londinium in
> September (I think); maybe I can check one out at the, er, "stockist" or
> whatever you call it?
What's overkill is 16-bit A/D converters. I'll bet the bottom six bits are
noise anyway. I have an LS-2000, and it's 12-bit converters still have
enough resolution to reproduce the CCD noise, and I doubt this one is much
better, especially with pixel sensors with a quarter the area.
--
Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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