Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Austin, Thank you for your reply. wow, that is amazing. Eversince I plunge into this hobby, I use mostly slides and color negative because of lack of good lab for b&w here in the Philippines. Can you recommend a good setup for printing b&w? Thanks. Nelson - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:25 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] New Holy War--Film Scanners > Hi Nelson, > > > I have no experience with film scanners what so ever. I use film > > exclusively and have no experience in digital camera whatsoever. What are > > the advantage of a scanner other than storing the images in your > > pc and for > > posting photos on the web? can you use the digitize images for printing > > hard copy instead of the negative? Thanks. > > No chemical darkroom for printing... Exceptional control over tonality... > Just for starters. IMO, film scanning gives you the best of both worlds > (digital vs film). > > Digital printing is sharper and has better tonality (at least for B&W, I'm > not really into color) if you use a quad-tone printing set-up. > > Regards, > > Austin > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html