Example of a slide scan process rev A

In this example we're going to take the little 35mm slide below, and make a print that is about 17 times larger on paper (about 25.5 x 17 inches)

(approximates the actual size of a 35mm slide image of [36 x 24 mm])

• The Kodachrome E100GX slide (above) is scanned at 5400 dpi
• Single pass, no ICE, no Grain Disolver, no Pixel Polish
• The whole image, (resized here for the web page) looks like the image below.

Now, point at it with your cursor to show the next step, then scroll down.

Now, let's zoom in on the little area that's in color in the rollover image

(On the film, that area would be about 2.7 mm wide by 1.7mm)

And here is the zoomed in view of that little section! Yes, it looks a bit grainy and noisy... that's what film looks like down at this level! Next let's take this bit here and see what it would look like printed at 300 dpi (below following image)

2.7 mm x 1.7mm section of original slide

Magnification here on the screen is about 60x larger than the original

If the original image were printed at 25.5 x 17 inches, then on the print, the area around the sample above would be about the size you see below! (this really depends on your screen size and pixel pitch, so this is an approximation)

The following is just a 6x4 inch section from the resulting 25.5" x 17" print. A 25x17" print is normally viewed from about two feet away, so back away that far to get a feel for the quality that the full sized image would have and imagine the rest of the image to 25 x 17 inches. (The bluish patch is the image section above).

All of the images above were scanned once from a single 35mm slide. The images above are all derived from that one scan.

The image above was taken in the fall of 2004 in the Lorraine, QC, woods on Kodak Ektachrome E100GX slide film using a tripod mounted Minolta Maxxum 9 body and Maxxum 100 f/2.8 macro lens. Spot metered in the bright yellow areas and opened up one stop.