> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Elmar Pinkhardt
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:26 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: AW: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
>
>
> If you have a monitor with a maximum dot pitch of 0.24mm and a viewable
> image area of 406*305 mm (these are the specs of the Hitachi CM823F) your
> maximum physical resolution is horizontal 406/(1/0.24)= 1691
> So 1691*x is what you get.
> Even if you say that its average dot pitch is somewhere about 0.23 mm you
> don't get 1856*1392.
> You can't get anything more without loss of image quality, even if the
> fairytales of most manufacturers try to tell you something different.
Again, your spec is wrong on the Hitachi 81x and Cornerstone p1x00 (5, 6, 7)
monitors. It is .22.
>
> By the way, what do you really win out of a higher resolution?
I've explained it already, several times. You get finer dot pitch, and so
images and fonts of the same physical size look smoother. What would you
rather look at all day, a 12 point font that is constructed with 8 vertical
dots or one constructed with 20 vertical dots? That's about the difference
between 800x600 and 1856x1392. I don't understand why this isn't a
no-brainer.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
