Negative Scanners

geoff hanson

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10 Dec 2001 - 2:47 PM

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I am a relative newcomer to digital imaging after many years of film based photography and am now set up from the computer and printer side to venture into negative scanning. I will be printing up to A3+ and wish to know what would be the minimum dpi scanner to give good results off full frame 35mm. Any comments on available units would be appreciated.

glenside

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24 Dec 2001 - 2:35 PM

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You will need one of the 4000 dpi scanners the better ones being over 1,000, $ 1,500. The file size will be circa 50 to 60 Meg. So anything less than a 800 Mhz PC or 400 Mhz Mac with around 500 Meg of Ram is hard work

Eddie

peterjones (e2 Member)

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3 Feb 2002 - 8:25 PM

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I agree with Little Jo that the new Canon Scanner is a brilliant bit of kit, I also agree that you need a beast of a PC or Mac to handle the files; I scan in at 4000 dpi and get files up to 60mgs. It is great fun then to start using layers with those files in Photoshop or whatever, it really tests the RAM !!