68 Megapixpel Panoramic Rangefinder!!!

[berci]

Hi Everyone,

It's a 68 megapixel rangefinder which also takes slides at the same time.

OK, there is one catch, the image processing is rather time consuming.

I have just received the Dimage 5400 II from the Jungle and tested it with my XPan slides.

The end result is a 204 MB (14016x5328 pixels) TIFF image. I have scanned the two halves of the pano image and photomerged it in Photoshop (now that is timeconsuming on my old PIII/512 MB RAM laptop).

So there is something to do on the grey rainy winter days here and I will need a lot of these days to scan my slides. :)

[GeroV]

Berci,
I should be getting a 5400 (mk 1) scanner shortly - how difficult is the splicing in PS? I just recently got my Xpan and look forward to being able to scan and edit my images.

thanks.
Gero

[Stephan]

Even with 25 Iso film developped to the limit of the emulsion's grain, you'll be scanning each grain more than once surely with that kind of resolution wont you ?

[berci]

Hi Gero,

Photomerge in Photoshop elements is very simple and straightforward. You can test it by cropping an existing picture, first crop the left 20-30% of the same picture and then do the same again but with the right side and then you can photomerge them back together and you will see what it is like.

Berci

[berci]

Hey Guys,

Does anyone know the average size of a grain in an ISO 100 slide film?

Diameter, etc?

ISO 25
ISO 50
ISO 100
ISO 400
ISO 1600

Berci

[GeroV]

Berci,
thanks - I'm actually using CS2 - I'll have a look at what to do there.
gero