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Jcs17 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 8065 posts, RR: 43
Posted (10 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 971 times:

Quick question, what is a good resolution to get on a 35mm film scanner.

Josh

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Joge From Finland, joined Feb 2000, 1441 posts, RR: 48
Reply 1, posted (10 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 954 times:

Hey, Josh...

If you go for a film scanner (not a flatbed scanned with a film scanning option), any scanner should be ok, as the cheapest one available can do 1800 dpi (check the next link):

http://www.aaacamera.com/primefilm_scanner_1800s.html

But for possible image cropping and bigger prints more is recommended, of course.

1800dpi * 1½ inch wide slide/negative frame = 2700 pixels wide image on your puter. For a print at 300dpi it's enough for a photo 9 inches wide.

However, the scan quality and dynamics are quite poor on that scanner, so it's not just the resolution that matters.

-Joge

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