RE: [Leica] Re: Darkroom to digital

[jon honeyball <jhoneyball@woodleyside.co.uk>]

Hi Simon

For printing, the Epson 1200 is v hard to beat. It connects via parallel
port or USB, so thats no problem

For scanning, I use the excellent Nikon Coolscan 3. This connects via a SCSI
card in your PC. 

Cost of both together is under 1000 pounds.

Memory -- the more, the merrier. At around 60 pounds per 128Mb DIMM, it is
not expensive to fit -- you will need custom memory for your old laptop
however.

Disc space -- more the merrier applies again. A 25Gb IDE hard disc is around
200 pounds.

How much of both? Well a full res scan on the Nikon is about 28Mb. Photoshop
likes 4x picture size in available ram, so that gives you a working ram
size. Paintshop Pro gets away with less.

If you want an example of a Noctilux + M6HM (yes, the one you sold me :-))
let me know and I will print out some a4 and a3 sheets and post them to you

Regards,

Jon

- -----Original Message-----
From: Simon Pulman-Jones [mailto:spulmanjones@lbs.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 August 1999 11:40
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Darkroom to digital


All this talk has inspired me to take the plunge and get into digital
printing after holding off whilst waiting for the prices to come down and
the hardware to mature. From the various posts I have a good idea of the
scanners and printers to look at, but can anybody post some advice about a
minimum specification PC for doing the work. My only PC at the moment is an
overloaded Pentium 133 laptop which I assume will not be up to the job. So,
how much memory, how much storage, what type of interface (I've lost track
of the recent interface developments) etc.

The only thing that bothers me is that I just know that during that early
learning, experimenting and mistake-making phase I am going to be sitting in
front of the computer all day and all night and exasperating the rest of the
family!