Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 27/10/00 12:51 pm, Curt Miller at cmiller@berkshire.net wrote: > BD, Greg and group - > > I'll go back to a whole different place on this: the economics of digital > imaging for fine art quality printing for AMATEURS is not there. I > recently priced out a package capable of producing only acceptable 8x10 > (compared with my chemical output, only acceptable) and I was looking at > $5,000 worth of stuff. My setup cost me ballpark (in US) 1500 for the scanner 300 for the printer 300 for the piezo system er... that's it. Okay, if you didn't have a computer system you might add 2000 for a computer & monitor 300 for a giant HD 300 for a 32x CD writer in which case you're up towards your figure. But you've got to be emailing from *something*, right? > Forget about MF output or 16x20 prints or prints > from 8x10 negatives. And, my investment? Down the toilet in 5 years. > > Silver is still the hotspot (and will be for several years) where the > plots of cost and quality intersect for the amateur. > > Curt > > ps - Greg, I'm half Newfie. Mother from Brigus, I attended MUN and have > eaten lots of brewis. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com