Re: [APML] More SS4000 scanning questions

["Chris Cook" <ccook@cape.com>]

> 4. I've asked this before and the answer made sense. For 35mm color
> negative film, is a scan setting higher than 2700 dpi useful? I had
> someone tell me in an off-topic discussion on the Losmandy group that I
> should be scanning at the highest resolution, 4000dpi in this case.

Depends.  My feeling is that the only 35mm films the would benfit for a
greater than 2700dpi scan would be Tech Pan, and extremely fine grained ones
like Provia 100 or Velvia.  For any ISO400 speed neg(Supra etc...), you're
not going to gain anything since the grain/film's resolution will limit you
first.  If you scan a ISO400 neg at 4000dpi, you're just ending up with a
larger file that occupies more of your HD... ;-)

Chris

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