Digital BW, The Print

Alan-

If I understood the description of your method correctly, the image 
dimensions of the scanned image is much larger than that of the digital 
image (19meg vs couple hundred meg).  If you view each at the pixel 
level you cannot make a direct comparisons.  The one viewed at a higher 
magnification will look less sharp have more apparent grain etc.

If you are trying to compare the sharpness of a page of printed text 
from a typewriter with one from a laser printer it wouldn't be 
reasonable to use a loupe to view one and the naked eye to view the 
other.

As Martin said, the print is the real test though, Prints from both 
would likely be very good and the difference lost on the average print 
purchaser.

--
Kevin
>>
>
> I guess I don't understand your response here...I'm always open to 
> learning
> something more about PS. At actual pixel level in PS, aren't we 
> looking at
> one image pixel to one screen pixel. Therefore, it seems to me that 
> image
> size doesn't matter. Sure, one image might be 6x9 from a digital 
> camera and
> the other film scanned image could be, say, equivlent to 16x20, but 
> does any
> of this matter? One-to-one pixel mapping is what it is, yes?