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First steps back to film photography after a long hiatus: handling of the Minolta X570

Started Apr 2, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: Roll #1 Kodak Portra 400 - Minolta X570

moimoi wrote:

ThomasB wrote:

I think 7200 dpi is a bit of a overkill for color film. I have still an old Minolta "Dimage Scan Elite 5400" and already 5400 dpi is too much as that results already in a 40 MP picture out of a 24x36 mm negative. Even the best color film gets grainy already in that resolution and the scan times are much longer as well. Therefore it's IMHO waste of time and effort to scan at resolutions higher than 4000 dpi.

I would agree with you. I think I will spend most of my time scanning at 3600ppi with the Plustek.

A general suggestion is to scan at the actual hardware resolution of the scanner. Then, downsample the resulting file to whatever resolution you want to permanently keep. Scans will take longer, but sometimes it offers an improvement over scanning directly at the lower resolution. You'd have to try it and see if it's worthwhile for you.

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