Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: "Douglas McLernon" <dmcl@iol.ie> >Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:21:53 +0100 >Subject: digital > >Douglas McLernon >Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland >E-mail - Economic<Douglas.McLernon@tcd.ie> >Personal <dmcl@iol.ie> > > I agree with Marc. Digital imaging has a long way to go before it replac= >es >film. I do believe however that the way to go is photographic film scanni= >ng > printed by the new technology. I'm lucky enough to have access to about >=A330,000 worth of scanner - laser colour printer (bought for a micro bio= >logy >project with European funds -- and the guy goes to Cambridge -so nobody >else uses it. Colour neg. scans better than transparencies. Unfortunately= > I >do quite a bit of MF work and the scanner only takes 35mm.=20 > I would agree that film has a ways to go, but my experience with color negative film has been quite different. I get my best scans from color transparency film. The scans from color negatives show every defect in the film. Color neg film tends to scratch easier than any other material I use. Also, I get more noise in the darker tones with color negative material. What scanner are you using? I am using a Leafscan 45 on formats from 35mm up to 4x5. I am about to get a scanner just for 35mm (like the Super Coolscan) and I am wondering if there is one that may be optimized for color negatives, as the Leaf is definitely not. This may be a bit off subject, but about 40% fo the 35mm pix that I scan are taken with Leicas.