Re: information contained in surrogates

From: Andrew Stawowczyk Long (anlong@NLA.GOV.AU)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 19:15:09 CDT

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Date:         Wed, 30 May 2001 10:15:09 +1000
From: Andrew Stawowczyk Long <mailto:anlong@NLA.GOV.AU>
Subject:      Re: information contained in surrogates
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    <pre> Hi Guenter,

    I've came across some publications, which mention film resolution as anything between 2000 and 5000 dpi. However, usually there is no information about how it was calculated. You can find an interesting web page at http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/technology/silver_halide/index.htm It discusses mostly resolution of traditional photographic paper print but mentions film as well.

    Regards Andrew Stawowczyk Long Manager, Imaging Services Branch National Library of Australia mailto:anlong@nla.gov.au

    Guenter Waibel wrote:

    > > ----------
    > > From: Guenter Waibel[SMTP:mailto:GUENTER@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU]
    > > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:04:55 AM
    > > To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
    > > Subject: information contained in surrogates
    > > Auto forwarded by a Rule
    > >
    > Hi list,
    >
    > this is a question tangential to Mary Winter's post. Mary wrote:
    >
    > At 12:25 PM -0400 5/29/01, Mary Winter wrote:
    > >Basically, you can capture about 3 times the surface area on 4x5 (about a
    > >240 meg. file), which could be scanned at 2000dpi (fairly normal for a 4x5
    > >film scanner).
    >
    > If I understand her correctly (please chime in if I'm misreading you,
    > Mary!), she says that the data contained in a 4x5 transparency is
    > equivalent to 240 MB (I take it at 24 bit RGB color).
    >
    > Now this raises an interesting question for me: how much data do
    > analog surrogates contain? Or in other words, at what capture
    > resolution do we exceed the source resolution of the surrogate? Does
    > anybody have information, or leads to information, that spells out
    > the amount of data contained in different types of surrogates in
    > digital terms (resolution of capture, pixel dimension, filesize)? I'd
    > be especially interested in data pertaining to 4x5 transparencies, 35
    > mm slides, 8x10 prints and also filmstock (16 mm and 35 mm).
    >
    > All comments and insights are very much appreciated.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Guenter
    >
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