A question for everyone??

I was going to type almost word for word what deker said.

This kind of sounds like a film scan - are you scanning negatives or something? If so, that calls for somewhat higher resolution - but still, 2400? damn, dude. Might be creating more problems than you need to.

that's my 2 cents

I was really just wondering if there was an equation to figure this out, i know one (lenghofpicture X multiplicationFactorXprinter ppi X imageinfo) but this dosent help with the ram problem. Its all good though i really dont need it i was just wondering if anyone knew of something abbout this.

why do you need to scan a 1" x 2" image at 240000 dpi?

just curious....

...because it says he can!

Thank you malibu thats exactly why i tried but i guess you cant win them all, thank you all for your ideas and imput.

If any one does scan a picture at 2400+ dpi just post the size if you can. Thank you this question is killing me..

You can scan the picture at 1" x 2" at 2400dpi or you can set it to be at 10" x 12' at 2400dpi, so there is no real answer for you. Basically, you could create a scan as large as the hd space you have available, its all relevant.