Have you ever used Polaroid instant slides? Good illustration of your contention. on 06/09/2002 09:21 AM, SKID Photography at skid@bway.net wrote: > Paul, > But you are making the false assumption that film information is arranged in a > grid fashion similar to pixels. I maintain, (and have had it confirmed by > others, more technically accomplished than I) that to reproduce the the random > information on film (made up of irregularly shaped grains) it takes a lot more > pixels to express that information. Think about it. > > Harvey Ferdschneider > partner, SKID Photography, NYC > > > > > "Paul D. DeRocco" wrote: > >> Well, in another of today's messages to this list, Kennedy reports that >> Kodak claims 3000lpi for Ektrachrome 100. Certainly there are finer grained >> films, but 13 times as fine? Or is Kennedy mistaken? >> >> -- >> >> Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco >> Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com >> >>> From: SKID Photography >>> >>> "Paul D. DeRocco" wrote: >>> >>>> Even with Kodachrome 25, a tripod, and a fixed focal length >>> lens, I don't >>>> believe there's ever 8000dpi worth of actual picture >>> information on a piece >>>> of film. >>>> >>> >>> Paul, >>> Then you would be wrong. There is well over 40,000 dpi in a >>> piece of 35 mm >>> film. This has been discussed ad nauseum on several other lists >>> and that has >>> been the conclusion, every time. I don't wish to repeat it here. >> >> - >> Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate >> subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. > > > > > - > Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate > subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. > - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.