Microfiche scanning

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, John Allain wrote:

>> Howzbout...
>
> Anybody with a removable lens camera could do this.
> A real microscope is desirable because of the good illuminator.
> The camera needs at least 4MP for 1 page at 200 dpi.
>
> John A.
>

Maybe more since a 4 MP camera only has 1.33 million pixel triples...
(when the say 4MP them mean 1.33M of each color)

If you could get at the raw data and extract the luminance info you could do 
better but I doubt this is possible in low end cameras....

Peter Wallace