Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Read Jon Cone's (creator of the piezography system) 'Higher Grounds' thread at http://www.egroups.com/message/piezography3000/332?threaded=1 For reasons he describes, digital cameras provide results that are *better* than film. If true, then the filmscanner road is less than ideal with respect to image result. - -David Binder (not looking forward to a battery dependent future) > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:20:57 -0400 > From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Meta Photokina > Message-ID: <B5ED5F08.1AEF%john@pinkheadedbug.com> > References: > > on 19/9/00 5:26 pm, imx at imxputs@knoware.nl wrote: > > > The hybrid road is a no-brainer! If the end product > > is digital, the full imaging chain will be digital. It is more convenient, > > it is cheaper, it brings the results one needs and all companies, from > > Kodak to Fuji, bet on the digital chain. > > I love you, Erwin, and you're totally right about the industry having lost > its way in camera design, but on this point you're wrong and I don't think > you've done your research. The hybrid road is anything but a no-brainer. > Filmscanners are getting better and better, and there are GREAT solutions > for printing BW on inkjets (see www.piezography.com). > > For some of us, it is not far off the Promised Land. > > - -- > Johnny Deadman > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com