Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!jupiter!kassover From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Photographic Databases Message-ID: <6776@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 12 Apr 90 16:47:54 GMT References: <654@nixpbe.UUCP> <103384@linus.UUCP> <9335@ingr.com> <2720@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Distribution: comp Organization: Aule-Tek, Inc. Lines: 21 In article <2720@ultb.isc.rit.edu> mpk9172@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.P. Kirby) writes: ... >Why 600 spi? You would probably want to match the image that your >are storing with whatever your output device might be. (for example >why store 600spi images if all you can print to is a 300spi printer?) Today. Tomorrow or next week you might find a great deal on a film recorder, or wallsized output device. It seems like 600 or 1000 or so spi is a reasonable tradeoff between storage space and output reproduction. But then, *I'm* not the one who has to find the magnetic real estate. Or optical disks. Or whatever. -- =================================================== David Kassover kassover@ra.crd.ge.com kassover@crd.ge.com