Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:19 PM 7/7/96 -0700, you wrote: >Seriously, though, I was referring more to the systems that are in >the approachable price category that we normal people can afford. >$1500-2500 is itself a fairly hefty price tag for a piece of a >computer system that needs a fairly high end bias to be useful. Makes >a good used darkroom setup for $300 or so a real bargain. If I weren't a newspaper photographer, I'd probably just have my own darkroom and practice the art of photography. The only reason I'm into digital is because I'll need to be to be marketable in my line of work. I certainly would like to afford a great printer and scanner, but not at this point. I wouldn't own a scanner for personal work that was less than $6,000. For newspaper work the Nikon SuperCoolScan (~$2000) would do. Or the Polaroid SprintScan, but the Nikon's better. The problem is, as I mentioned, output. Even $16,000 printer can't put out a print with the smoothness and tonal range of a Leica enlarger and fine paper from a good negative. (Not to mention a skilled printer.) ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier NPPA Job Information Bank Chair Region 11 Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal" T. S. Eliot