>Chris, it's funny you should mention Polaroid because that has been my
>photographic specialty for 18 years. I am scanning Polaroid SX-70
>manipulations and Image and Emulsion Transfers on a Umax Astra 1200S. The
>Image transfers probably are closest in quality to their originals because
>the inks react to the paper a similar fashion to the dyes that are transferred
>from the Polaroid film, but they are still a bit different....grainier.
>
>With Photoshop it's obviously easy to vary the image size and so enlarge (if
>you have enough ram) or reduce. I haven't enlarged them a lot from the
>original size and so don't know how they'd hold in quality to the original.
I have scanned manipulated SX-70 prints (at 600dpi) and printed them (with a
Fujix Pictrograph) at 8.5" square. They hold up beautifully to this degree
of enlargement.
Regards,
Mitch Valburg