Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Personally, I prefer the Polaroid Sprintscan 35 Plus and 4000 scanners over the Nikon LS2000. I think they do a more consistent job, particularly with negatives. The Epson 1200 printer produces B&W photographs indistinguishable from silver prints at normal viewing distances in my experience. Use a magnifying glass and you can see the dots, yes, but you'll never see them with the naked eye. The color output isn't quite as good but it's getting there. An interesting amalgam of the hybrid wet lab and digital photograph is using a film scanner and PhotoShop to produce a digital contact negative and then printing onto photographic paper. My friend Don Krehbiel has been experimenting with these techniques and making some awe inspiring photographs, which can be printed with very little waste paper and no dodging/burning/etc since you do all of that in the digital creation of the negative. He has a web page or two devoted to his work on these techniques which you might find interesting ... his 'site is fabulous anyway, for any photographer: < http://www.slonet.org/~dkrehbie/2photo/digital/outneg/outneg.htm > Godfrey