Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you read the last one, you will know that after a month in Nepal and a full week in the darkroom, I failed to finish off the printing. Clearly I need to look at my "system". At the moment, I'm thinking that I will finally give up too much colour printing and in future do purely b/w in the darkroom. So ifff I am to go digital, do I need to change camera systems, or not. Those who know me know I have too many cameras: many of us do. I am loath to bring another system into my already crowded life, so if I am to go for a digital camera, I would have to "trade-in" beloved mechanical beasts and a whole bevy of lenes, something I would prefer not to do. If I stick to b/w darkroom work, I could "survive" with the M, my Rollei, perhaps keep the Blad and X-pan, and do away with the R (unless the back is really worth it), the Rollei 3003 and a range of Minoltas etc. I could then concentrate on colour with a "new" digital system and stick to b/w film BUT ----- Can I still afford to use film? This question rests with the ability of "scanners". Will a scanned negative file match one from a dedicated digital camera pixel for pixel? Is there a scanner which can do the scanning without me having to sit for hours, ie a feeder? Please help. I have a week to go before coming to the USA and visiting Chicago: the subject of the next e-mail and I could be tempted to do something on that trip. Cheers and TIA Alastair