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I've just scanned some of my best 35mm slides using a scanner costing £27,000. It cost me £35 for an hours use at a pro camera place in London. I wanted the images to be at their best as I want to do some big enlargements, up to 36"x24".
My question is, will a dpi of over 300 make for a much better image, or am I wasting my time? The file sizes of these images I did with the expensive scanner are like 6000dpi, which have given me a "tif" file size of around 70mb for each image. I've made jpg copies but they are still very large file sizes. Bottom line is would 300dpi be just as good?
My question is, will a dpi of over 300 make for a much better image, or am I wasting my time? The file sizes of these images I did with the expensive scanner are like 6000dpi, which have given me a "tif" file size of around 70mb for each image. I've made jpg copies but they are still very large file sizes. Bottom line is would 300dpi be just as good?