Digital BW, The Print

>>>There is a huge
amount of pixelation, especially in the skin tone, and some quick
jumps between tones when I scanned in at 4800

Something is not right here.  There should be no such pixelation at that res
nor the jumps in tonality.  I never see any of that at 2400 dpi with my
4990.  Are you scanning in high-bit?  Greyscale?  What size neg?

Richard S.


On 1/3/08, AnnMarie Tornabene <fairy69@...> wrote:
>
>   Well, this is what I gathered from running the test. I scanned in at
> 4800 dpi, then scanned the same negative at 12,800 dpi and as I
> suspected, got a better result from the latter. There is a huge
> amount of pixelation, especially in the skin tone, and some quick
> jumps between tones when I scanned in at 4800. Then I tried scanning
> at 3200 because sometimes there is a key resolution to use that works
> and anything above it gives similar results. Well, it did look
> slightly better than the 4800 dpi scan, but still not as nice as the
> 12,800.
>
> What's that old saying? If it ain't broke, don't fix it? But I do
> appreciate the advice as always. Thank you! :D
>
> AnnMarie
>
> AnnMarie Tornabene
> www.annmarietornabene.net
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