Hi Jez,
As large as you can is good advice for the scanning, but you'll struggle to get decent quality enlarging the print to a much bigger size than the original. 'Decent quality ' is in the eye of the beholder, it depends on the result needed and the audience's viewing distance.
Kind regards,
Dave.
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From: Jez Collins
Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 08:07
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Reply To: Museums Computer Group
Subject: [MCG] Digitising Photos for Exhibition Use
Good morning all
This is a relatively simple question but one that I'm struggling to get some simple, definitive advice so I hope someone can help.
I have a number of photographs, 6 x 4 and 7 x 5 (and a couple of larger ones) that I have been lent as part of a project I'm doing. I'm scanning them all and I want to use to some of the scanned images for a public exhibition. I'm thinking the sizes for the exhibition will be a mix of A4/3/2/1 and maybe A0.
Could anyone one advise at what DPI I need to scan these at please? I'm reading a lot of different advice from 600 dpi will be sufficient to 'scan as large as you can'. I have access to a Plustek OpticPro A320L scanner so it's a relatively good scanner.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Jez
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