It is just what the diehard analogues fans wish. Unfortunately
everything are changing too fast is this ten years and very soon it
will be very hard to find an analogue lab (a lab provide traditional
optical print). There digital lab is charging the same price as the
traditional one. Not only casual users but the advance amateurs are
praising about the digital results, I think the old lab will die very
soon. Most of the poster you have seen in the street are by scanning
and printing. I don't see any chance the analogues stuffs can survive
in the future.
I had my Nikon LS-10 (2700dpi) in 1993, the LS2000 at 1998 and the
4000ED at 2002. The previous two were really not capable in satisfying
my need. But now the 4000ED is just can't beat and I'm starting to
re-scan all my old negative and slides. After seeing some fresh scans
from my 1992 trip to Europe it completely changed my mind of what I
have been shot. They are much better than the old prints, when side to
side compare they just look seriously faded or the lab didn't get them
right. With the price of digital file to frontier output reduced, I
can now re-print thousands of photos I have been made and selected in
the pass and they just look much better than before.
I like shooting slides and will continue as long as the cost is
reasonable, although I enjoy projecting them but it is not convenient
and not easy to share so I will scan and have them output to prints,
digital just make life much happier (also make one busy).
C.H.Ling
Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>
> My eyes are analog, not digital, and my pictures are, too, and will stay
> that way in my archives. Digital is just a convenience, like PhotoShop,
> which, IMO, is mainly a crutch for incompetent photographers who couldn't
> get it right in the camera to begin with. :-)
>
> Fire away.
>
> Walt
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