Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are plenty of good quality, reasonably priced film scanners available Bob - Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Microtek, to name just a few. The world isn't ready for a Leica scanner - $3000, faux crock covering... On 6/24/05 6:16 PM, "Afterswift@aol.com" <Afterswift@aol.com> wrote: > Whether a PC or Mac circa 2025 will be able to read CD-R's is problematic. > What may happen has an analogy to 8mm movie film. I don't think 8mm or > Super 8 > projectors are being made now. You can still find 8mm cameras in flea > markets. > We can still access these films but at some expense and trouble. > > That's why I suggest that we make good printouts on high quality papers of > our favorite image files. On subjects that I want to have a more permanent > record, I use a film camera so I can have a negative backup. > > Which reopens a question: why doesn't one of the major camera outfits > market > a high quality yet reasonable 35mm negative scanner? Kodak and Fuji and > Leica > should be in the lead. Nikon and Polaroid featured film scanners a few > years > ago, but the market seemed to have lost its drive. That may be due to the > low > cost transfer of negatives to CD positives now. > > If you have a good negative scanner, you can skip the CD-R and produce a > fresh print from the negative itself at any time, either digitally on in > the > darkroom. > > Bob R > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information