Dear Folks,
I've been thinking along the same lines as John - keping my investment in
film equipment and using a scanner to turn them into digital images. I
figure that gives me a few years for colour film to dissapear, and maybe ten
for B&W. By that time the technology for digital cameras should be mature,
stable and cheaper.
That being said I went to "Focus on Imaging at the NEC last weekend (with a
friend who is further into digital than me). I must admit that I was very
impressed with some of the images I saw printed from the current range of
digital SLR (Nikon, Canon, etc.). Particularly impressed byt the A3 sized
prints on the Lyson stand, and a very big print on the Leica stand.
It's the first time I've been convinced that the current size of sensors are
capable of competing with film.
John wrote:
"If you all get a chance buy this weeks Amateur Photographer..8 March 2003.
Sometimes there is very little of interest...This week it is a "Black and
White Special" Stuffed full of good B+W work and an article on Lee Miller.
One of the articles re-affirms my ideas of the
way to go digital, good quality B+W negs, scanned with something like a
Minolta Scan Dual III and printed using a good quality A3 printer (Epsom
1160?) using specialist B+W inks.Total outlay approx =A3600/$900. Seems v=
ery
good value compared to the cost of changeing systems and going totally
digital from start to finish..
The results I have seen are first class. Am I missing something?
Regards, John Duggan, Wales, UK"
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