Re: Conversion calculator real 35mm camera to softimage fov

[Francois Lord <francoislord(at)gmail.com>]

To make numbers nicer...
Why didn't I think of it?
:-)

Chris Shaw wrote:
> It's because the scanning chip has pixels exactly 6microns by 
> 6microns. That means that a full ap scan should really be 4149x3111. 
> To make the numbers nicer, they scan a little less on the left, and a 
> hair more vertically to give 4096x3112. What we usually deal with is 
> half-resolution scans, hence 2048x1556.
>
> Chris
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