Re: [photo-3d] On the Computer Graphics Frontier

[Rory Hinnen <Rory.Hinnen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Harp wrote:
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> can also be used.  My understanding is that the TIFF format doesn't use
> compression and is thus more accurate.  

Tiff can be compressed, but it's not a lossy compression the way that
jpeg is, meaning information is not intentionally destroyed.

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> As an experiment I submitted the same file in 300 and 600 dpi resolutions.
> The results were identical.  I think the Frontier converts whatever digital
> file it receives into its own format before printing.  Recently I've been
> just submitting whatever resolution I come up with.  For example 

I wouldn't be surprised. We use an arri laser recorder, and though we
can submit different resolutions, it resizes them (they call it a mesh)
to whatever is native for the arri. Obviously, if you give it a lower
res image, it tends to look softer, but there is an upper limit.

.r.