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People like you who share stuff at 6000x are saints, angels, and gods.
thank you so much friend!
with this kind of res, the doujin will ALWAYS look good for another decade to come, and will most likely age very well compared to the standard 3000x that people here do.
@my little donger: As a fellow scanner, I wouldn't. Untouched 600dpi raws are huge res, sure, but also come with moire artifacts all day long. Your choices are either to try to mask the artifacts as best you can and release the 600dpi raw as-is (this raw), blur-shrink-unsharp to kill artifacts and release at half-resolution (my style), or buy an expensive scanner that can do proper descreening in hardware. I'd love to have a scanner that could descreen properly, but I don't have one so tradeoffs must be made.
To see what I mean about moire, here's the cover of this book next to the untouched 600dpi raw for Oshikko Sensei 6: http://i.imgur.com/RB9c2bN.jpg
I do thank the uploader though--one fully 600dpi debound scan a day is a pretty damn good effort. Welcome to E-H and thank you for your service!
EDIT: I usually only scan 600dpi for colors. My scanner takes quite a while to scan a page at that resolution, and the only real benefit is on color pages as you can get the moire pattern to be 1:1 (any lower than 600dpi and the pattern becomes a mess, making it a real pain to clean). B&W pages don't have the same issue in general, so to save time those get 300dpi. Yes, that's just a time saver on my part, but again it comes down to equipment. If I had a scanner that could descreen color in hardware and scan B5 at 600dpi in the time it currently takes mine to do B5 at 300dpi then yeah, I'd be doing 600dpi releases all day long. I don't, though, so there you go. Also, your argument about 'zooming in' is invalid as you're specifically talking about some future where resolution is the deciding factor. If in the future being big is more important, then you'd be able to see the artifacts plain as day at 100%. ;)
but, this is for the long term...artifacts can go unnoticed because most people don't really zoom into the image that hard when browsing their sets.
however, res is what people care about...5 years ago, 1500x-2000X res was standard back in the day, now if I ever see a 1500x res of any of my fav works, I mostly just buy a new copy of it and have it re-scanned at 600DPI.
300DPI will look very VERY bad in less than half a decade, and that would be a real shame.
like I said, artifacts in general is a small price to pay.
at least, wished scanners just shared their untouched raws...that would be nice :P