Re: filmscanners: High End Scanner Prices

[Victor Landweber <victor@landweber.com>]

To the list:

Do the math for a 2¼" × 2¼" image scanned with the Minolta MF scanner at 
360 dpi:

(3600 dpi × 2¼) ÷ 360 = 20" × 20".

At 240 dpi, you get:

(3600 dpi × 2¼) ÷ 240 = 30" × 30"

With either the Nikon or Polaroid medium-format scanners you get at 360 dpi:

(4000 dpi × 2¼) ÷ 360 = 25" × 25"

and at 240 dpi, you get:

(4000 dpi × 2¼) ÷ 240 = 37.5" × 37.5"

I would like to see a comprehensive critical user review of the Minolta 
3600/4800 dpi MF scanner. Anyone willing?

-- Victor Landweber


>In any case I will wait for more user reviews and discussions about the
>Monolta, then I will decide, but I think of it as a 3200dpi scanner for MF
>and 4800 only for 35mm - 3200 is fine for 6x6 or 6x7, it gives a 50" x 50"
>file at 360dpi - that is already huge, don´t need 4800 - the files would be
>hard to handle.
>For 35mm the higher resolution is more interesting, as 35mm is a small neg
>size for big prints.