At 11:02 AM 9/5/98 +0200, you wrote:
>I have sent an email to Olympus.cz, asking about the possibility of OM-5
>to appear at Photokina. From the friendly reply I quote:
I visited the Olympus booth at this week's Seybold Show in San Francisco.
It is a trade show aimed at the pre-press world of high end digital
graphics. I had a chance to check the specs of four digital cameras,
ranging from the 640 x 480 pixels D-220L to the 1280 - 1024 pixels DL-600L.
All nicely conceived and market positioned. The only item which yielded a
hmmnnnn for me was the $400 ES-10 film (2x2 slides and negative strips)
scanner. A 1,700 dpi scan of a 35 mm slide yields an 11 MB file. The
quality looked very good on their display monitor. The max display with
the Olympus scanner software was 200%. I wish they had Corel Photo-Shop 8
or an other product which would let me take a look at say 1600% and see the
artifacts.
I was amazed at the number of firms making large ink-jet printers. Several
took rolls of paper four feet wide and could turn out prints hundreds of
feet long. The quality was excellent - and I'm a long Cibachrome from
slides fan.
Digital is the way to go in the commercial world, and is coming our way.
I've got four OM bodies, a 1, two 2s and a 4T and scads of lenses. Gotta
think about that scanner.
On the other hand, one firm displayed a set up you could load with 8 x 10
color photo prints as you left the office (sic). Overnight it would scan
at high resolution, burn to a CD-ROM, and in the morning you would have a
disk costing $1.50 filled with high resolution duplicates. It would be
great to have a 35 mm slide duplicating system like that. I wonder what
the rental would be.
George in Berkeley
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