Message-Id: <199706051817.LAA236574@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:18:30 -0500 From: George Holmes <mailto:george.holmes@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU> Subject: Re: 4x6? 5x7? 8x10? To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
And George Holmes writes again----------IMHO a good 4 x 6 inch color print will do fine for you on your flatbed. Just don't try to enlarge it and expect it to look as good as a 1:1 scan would. If one figures that the least a person browsing (would they be a browsee) will see would be 256 colors at a screen resolution of 72-90 dpi then your product should be okay given your constraints. But like someone else wrote in, have a 4 x 6 and an 8 x 10 made and scan them both, then do the same manipulating to each one and compare the results to see if the extra cost of an 8 x 10 is worth it to you.
Over and out, George
George Holmes wrote: >
>>What are you going to use the end result for/in. If you are going to be
>>using them for the web then I would suggest a 5 x 7 inch size as on the web
>>you probably wouldn't display a larger image size than that.
>
> Right, just the web page. And I'm pretty much limited to the
>equipment I have, for the time being: flat-bed scanner, 35-mm. camera
>(sure, Patricia, wouldn't I love to be using a medium or large-format camera
>-- though for the present purpose it would probably be over-kill). And I'll
>just be saving the JPEG version.
> My question was aimed more at getting an idea of what happens to
>visual information when shooting on a given film, then printing in two or
>three different formats, then scanning from each of those formats, then
>manipulating the data from the last process. Does a good-quality 4x6 print
>from relatively slow film (ISO 100) contain all the scanner-usable
>information one needs? I realize there are a number of variables that would
>factor into a final answer in my present case, but are there any general
>guidelines to follow when approaching this task?
> J. Erickson
>
>
>Jeffrey S. Erickson phone: 704-892-2590
>Slide Collection, Visual Arts Ctr. fax: 704-892-2691
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>
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