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When scanning old photos, is there a big difference between 300 and 600 dpi? -- nm

Posted by sycor Apr 15 '11, 12:42

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Yes but it depends on what you are doing. 300 is baseline. 600 is if you want to make it larger while not loosing resolution - lileve Apr 15, 12:45 3
- I hate loose resolution -- nm - decline Apr 15, 12:46 2
  - And what of a loosi resolution? -- nm - bc/nc Apr 15, 12:47 1
    - is that noise? nope, just freckles -- nm - CQ Apr 15, 12:48
4x file size, more detail but also more flaws, paper texture -- nm - z's replacement droid Apr 15, 12:45
On screen, not much until you try to blow up the dimensions. Printing at high quality will suffer with lower dpi. File size is larger at higher dpi. -- nm - TWuG Apr 15, 12:44
well, it's 300 more dpi. - Reagen Apr 15, 12:44 5
- basically my mom wants to have all the old family pictures scanned in. so I'm trying to get some information for her on what she should be looking at -- nm - sycor Apr 15, 12:47 4
  - 300 is a good enough resolution for most things you'd want to do. - Reagen Apr 15, 12:49 1
    - nope. just to digitize about 10 photo albums. -- nm - sycor Apr 15, 12:50
  - are you doing it or is she getting someplace to do it? -- nm - oblique Apr 15, 12:47 1
    - well, I was thinking about getting her the groupon deal from Scandigital.com. otherwise she would be going on her Brother print/fax/copy. -- nm - sycor Apr 15, 12:48
depends whether you want to print them. higher DPI looks better. If they're just for the web, you want lower dpi for smaller file size. -- nm - loosilu Apr 15, 12:43
I would say about 300 dpi or so. -- nm - decline Apr 15, 12:43 1
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about 300 dpi. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 15, 12:43

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