[filmscanners] Re: umax film scanners

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Yes, I agree, grain aliasing is lessened by higher resolution captures,
the issue becomes one of cost versus improvement of image quality.

Art

LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
>>The SS120 scans at 4000 dpi in medium format captures
>
>
> This is/was very unclear from the Polaroid web site; but I will take your
> words for it that it does its medium format scans at 4000 dpi as well.
>
> As for the usefulness of 4000 dpi for medium format scans, I would say that
> I would agree with that for the most part.  It does have one possible
> advantage other than for extreme enlargements and extreme cropping which is
> that it gives one a lot of information to work with in Photoshop before
> downsampling and allows for the downsampling process in wither Photoshop or
> the printer to have a larger universe of data to select from in doing the
> downsampling which might provide for a better, smoother downsample with more
> details in high light and shadows or tonal gradations as a possibility.
>

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