At 02:37 PM 10/22/2002, Richard Man wrote:
At 12:57 PM 10/22/2002 -0700, Winsor Crosby wrote:
...But then again you could use the much less expensive system of
disposable sensors that have no angular color aberration problems. They
come 36 to a roll.
>--
>Winsor Crosby
>Long Beach, California
True, that's why I am hanging on to my OM. I got a roll film adapter for
the Nikon scanner so scanning a whole roll is no longer a pain!
To my mind, the question is not "if" but when the silicon sensor based
systems overcome enough of their obstacles (and Winsor points out a several
goods above) to become the dominant player from snapshooter to professional.
As for scanning slides/negatives -- sorry, I just hate the experience. I
hate getting the stuff arranged, coping with dust, scratches and
misbehaving scanner issues. To avoid doing it very often, I am willing to
accept a somewhat lower quality solution from a digital camera or pay a
premium to get an equivalent result. I bet I'm not alone. (exactly how
much lower quality or how much of a premium is the market question that
every camera company wants to know with great precision!)
Richard, it sounds like you are big time into scanning. Assuming things
are going well, on average, how long does it take you to go from
negative/slide to a file on disk that is exactly as you want it to
be? (Ignoring any computer manipulation that you might also do with a
digital camera RAW file). Do you have a feel for the time for "best case",
"average case" and "rare, but not freakishly worst case" with your
scanning? My experiences in doing it (limited) were horrid, and I've heard
of experienced folks spending 10+ minutes per image. That's just
unbearable (to me). (And my own experiences were never as good as 10
minutes an image, either!)
For the next several years, I see my (totally hobby) photography running in
parallel courses -- Consumer grade digicam for those situations where all
the emphasis is convenience, content (get "a" shot, take several in hopes
of getting "the" shot) and moderate prints (8x10, max) and OM film gear for
the situations where you want to get the best possible image and aspire to
a 20x15 on the wall, or can't cope with current digicam limitations. (Long
exposure, wide angles, shallow DOF, etc). And of course, do it w/o
breaking the bank.
The current product mix has to be really hard for some
professionals. Digital has a siren song of instant gratification and low
capture costs versus the screeching sound of high capital investments and
image quality limitations. Everybody has a "sounds good enough"
point. Each new generation pushes another set of folks over their internal
threshold.
Stuart
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