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- From: olof@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se (Olof Franksson)
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- Subject: Re: Photo Scanning
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 14:49:07 GMT
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- Among several factors two important quantities affect the imaging when
- scanning photographs or displaying images with pixels on a monitor: the
- number of detectors/pixels per inch, and the size of them.
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- The first quantity limits the "geometric imaging" through
- the Nyquist criterion. This means that an object with F0 [dpi]
- (F0/2 [lines/inch]) requires F0 detectors/pixels per inch for
- preserving the geometry.
-
- The second quantity limits the "modulation imaging" through
- the MTF of the detector/pixel (and optics etc). For a quadratic
- detector/pixel with the size 1/F0 [inch] the MTF will be
- sin(PI*V/F0)/(PI*V/F0), with V measured in [lines/inch]. The
- limiting spatial frequency will be 2*F0 [dpi] (F0 [lines/inch]).
- NOTE that the modulation will be 0 at this spatial frequency.
-
- For a scanner/monitor with quadratic detectors/pixels mounted side by side
- this means that resolving 300 [dpi] geometry and modulation require AT LEAST
- 300 detectors/pixels per inch. NOTE that the modulation will be damped with
- a factor of about 0.6 for 300 detectors/pixels per inch, and 0.9 for 600
- detectors/pixels per inch. In practice the damping will be even worse since
- MTF of other components, such as optics and stray light, must be included.
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