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(Posting this to alt.comp.periphs.dcameras and alt.graphics.photoshop in the desire to cover more bases and in the hope that the overlap isn’t too severe.)
I suspect this is a Digital Camera 101-type question, but perhaps there’s more than I’ve so far been able to search on the web…
I have a substantial art collection, and many of the pieces are paintings way larger than the 11×17 I can fit on my flatbed scanner. In earlier days, I’d have taken these to a pro photographer who’d shoot them onto 4×5 film, which I could then scan. This is no longer an option for me, so I’m wondering – are there any digital cameras that would serve this purpose? It seems that all the dcameras I know of image at 72 dpi; yes, I can set the quality setting to TIFF and get a really large file (which I could then size up to 300 dpi in Photoshop) but to me that defeats the archival purpose – to have as accurate a file of the artwork as possible.
Art there digital cameras that image at >72 dpi? The only other solution I’ve found is to consider a sheet-fed or roll scanner, and I’d like to exhaust all other possibilities before going that route.
Thanks in advance!
Richard Pini
I suspect this is a Digital Camera 101-type question, but perhaps there’s more than I’ve so far been able to search on the web…
I have a substantial art collection, and many of the pieces are paintings way larger than the 11×17 I can fit on my flatbed scanner. In earlier days, I’d have taken these to a pro photographer who’d shoot them onto 4×5 film, which I could then scan. This is no longer an option for me, so I’m wondering – are there any digital cameras that would serve this purpose? It seems that all the dcameras I know of image at 72 dpi; yes, I can set the quality setting to TIFF and get a really large file (which I could then size up to 300 dpi in Photoshop) but to me that defeats the archival purpose – to have as accurate a file of the artwork as possible.
Art there digital cameras that image at >72 dpi? The only other solution I’ve found is to consider a sheet-fed or roll scanner, and I’d like to exhaust all other possibilities before going that route.
Thanks in advance!
Richard Pini
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