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RE: [OM] Re: Digital Musings

Subject: RE: [OM] Re: Digital Musings
From: "Tom A. Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:13:35 -0400
On Tuesday, September 04, 2001 at 16:23, Daniel J. Mitchell 
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wrote on "RE: [OM] Re:  Digital Musings," saying..

> > A scanner is something I'm more or less looking at, though not at all
> hard.
> > It would be nice to share some stuff with others interested in the art and
>
> > I do feel left out at times not doing so. Just seems so expensive now.
> Plus
> > the time to do it and maintain the site and all that.
>
>  Oh, but scanners are _cheap_. Film/slide scanners are expensive, but a
> generic flatbed scanner that'll scan prints shouldn't set you back more than
> US$100 at the absolute max -- $50 if you shop around a bit/pick one up used.
> Sure, it won't get you the 4000x3000-sized monster images that a slide
> scanner will, but if all you want to do is put prints on a web page, it'll
> be more than adequate.

Oh? Scan a 4x6 print at 1200 dpi, get a 4800x7200 file.
Yeah, quality, sharpness, dMax suffers by going thru the extra step.
But BIG? no problemo.

Tom

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