Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:31 PM 7/7/96 -0400, you wrote: >Actually, the Leafscan 45 is good for 5000 dpi at 16 bits per channel. >Given that even good 35mm lenses resolve only about 150 line pairs/mm, >this is pretty durned close to what you can expect to do with your >35mm camera. It costs $17,000, but the price for this technology is >falling quickly. I saw one for sale for $5,000 used, needed an overhaul - about $2,500. Good deal. But it needs a service contract. You don't want to pay for maintenance piecemeal. Wish I had the money, but the thought of $250 bulbs are just too much. But then for a beseler negative carrier that rotates in it AP wanted to charge us $150, and you could buy the same thing from B&H for 1/3 that. So AP obviously overcharges for equipment. I used one at work for almost three years, and have yet to see anything for less than $30,000 that could compete. Interesting that it's 5000 dpi, because our owners manual from AP said it was 5,700. ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier NPPA Job Information Bank Chair Region 11 Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal" T. S. Eliot