Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: 4season <4season@boulder.net> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 17:36 Subject: Re: [Leica] cameras and guitars > Well why not buy a lightweight flatbed scanner, fool > it into thinking the transparency adaptor's installed, > and see if THAT works as a digital scanning back? Might > even work, for some very brightly-lit subject matter. That's how scanning backs (and flatbed scanners, and film scanners) work today. The problem is that exposure times are extreme long (seconds), and this makes them unsuitable for just about all applications except stationary subjects in studios. Scanning backs tend to be bulky as well--far larger than the usual 35mm photographer would be likely to tolerate. The output from scanning backs easily beats film for the specific applications for which they are used, however. -- Anthony