[Leica] Another aspect of Film/digital

[gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)]

Why don't you just take your print to a local professinal lab and have it 
scanned onto a cd? That would reduce your chances of losing a valued print.

Regards,

Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: KPai <skennethpai@msn.com>
Date: Friday, August 13, 2004 8:39 am
Subject: [Leica] Another aspect of Film/digital

> Good Morning/Day, everyone:
> 
> I am new to this group and I have an ignorant question. I am 
> attemptingto make a copy of a favorite print that has lost its 
> negative. I shot
> the picture with my recently acquired ASPH 35/2.0.
> 
> Can anyone tell me: 
> 
> 1) In order to safeguard my pictures, I intend to send my exposed film
> to Ofoto (a part of Kodak that does digitizing and puts them on the
> Web),what resolution/pixel the digitized images will I get?  And how
> does the digitized images compare with, say, the best quality a 
> 4.0 MP
> digital camera can produce?
> 
> 2) Or would you advise a film scanner? 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Kenneth
> Seattle, USA
>    
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+skennethpai=msn.com@leica-users.org
> [lug-bounces+skennethpai=msn.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Feli di Giorgio
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:25 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 19:12, Karen Nakamura wrote:
> > It's not just for old fogeys.  I'm in my early 30s and after 
> having 
> > used my M7 for a year, I have a lot of trouble going back to 
> SLRs -- 
> > especially dim squinty ones like the Canon EOS 10D.  It's a fine 
> > camera, but the magnification is low and the "focusing screen" 
> isn't.> 
> 
> Same here. I'm 3- eh, 28 and I will continue to shoot film with my M's
> till they pry them from my cold dead hands. I have a Nikon 
> Supercool 
> scan and am happier than a pig in a clover field. As I have said 
> before,I see more than enough pixels at work every day. The last 
> thing I want
> to
> do in my spare time is sit in front of another computer or have
> something
> blink and beep at me.
> 8-)
> 
> Feli
> 
> 
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