Re: Digicam

[byard pidgeon <bluedove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why assume the only difference is the scanner?...why, because the same
person made both scans, that's why.

on 06/10/2002 01:15 AM, Kennedy McEwen at rkm@kennedym.demon.co.uk wrote:

> In article <B9298538.2DC8%bluedove@ccountry.net>, byard pidgeon
> <bluedove@ccountry.net> writes
>> OK, I'm not a theoritician (nor a beautician)...but, I have two 24X prints
>> of the same slide, done on the same large format printer (an old 4 color
>> one) using the same inkset and paper.
>> One print is very much more "photographic" than the other, looks like a
>> grainy photo from a normal viewing distance...the other print needs to be
>> viewed from about 3 feet to look "photo".
>> The difference...is the scanner. One was done on a desktop scanner (3175
>> ppi), the other on an old, literally big as a truck drum scanner, by a guy
>> who really knows how to use it.
>> I don't know the ppi of that drum scan, but on the print it appears under a
>> loupe to be about double the desktop scan...so, probably in the 6K-8K range.
>> 
>> This is a difference you can see.

> 
> Why assume that the only difference between your prints is the
> resolution they were scanned at?  You have already mentioned that the
> drum operator knew what he was doing - was that skill without value in
> the results?

> 
> I assume that the operator had the skill to be able to do this - and
> that skill is a difference you can see!

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