[MacDV] dias and idvd

[Gerhard]

My German is not so good so I looked up dias in the translation  
widget and it translates to "slide".  So now I know what you are  
trying to scan.  35 mm film as an approximate dimension of 1.4 x .95  
inches so applying the calculations you would need to scan at 515 DPI  
to achieve a 720 x 480 file.  I have never scanned film but from what  
I have heard the maximum resolution of 35 mm is 4000 DPI after that  
you start scanning the film grain.  I guess that you will have to  
convert the dimensions for use with the PAL format with which I am  
not familiar.

Good luck

Gerhard



On Aug 9, 2005, at 6:40 AM, Ferdinand Fuchs wrote:

> hello gerhard,
>
> thanks for you information!
>
> but I thought, 120dpi is sufficient for a normal 1:1 paper scan but  
> for dias/film I need a much higher resolution?
>
>
> ferdinand
>