Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well... you had to buy the scanner and a photo quality color printer. And, you had to have the "time" to personally do the work. You could have just as easily taken the negs, from the 1hr lab, home and printed them in your darkroom. You can make a hellova lot of prints in 3-1/2 hours. And still not buy a scanner or color printer. But what it really comes down to is... how you want to spend your time. Fiddling digitally, fiddling photographically, or lop off three hours and let someone else do it while you take more pictures. - ------- Which is great, but...The scanner cost me $300 and the printer cost $249...both together less than a good enlarger...no darkroom, no trays, no sink, etc... Dropping the film off at the corner lab costs me $13 to get 4x6 prints from a 36 ex roll. Now, to be honest about it, there's probably one shot worth printing out of 36...so....For everyday shooting, I'm happy with the digital scanning/printing.... Jim. At 01:20 PM 2/10/99 -0500, BD wrote: > >Total time...4 hours....and that's assuming problems with the prints... >Total cost...$10 plus film and album cost... > >The bottom line is...the digital route is markedly less expensive, and, on >average, just as good for producing an album of 4x6 prints...and the digital >route lets you prints those 4x6s on 8x10 paper, which looks very nice >indeed... > >SO - Conventional film - Leica optics - conventional film processing - >digital scanning and printing...the way of the next 50 years...(right Jim >B?)