Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Jayanand - Whether the R8/9 set up is "worth it" is really up to the individual. Certainly the fact that you can shoot film and digital with the system makes a viable choice. My only point in mentioning the drum scanner was that if you wish to see, on a computer screen, every bit that a kodachrome 25 transparency has - a drum scan is the only way to do that. When you open a digital RAW capture you're seeing all there is. One of the reasons that I've moved almost entirely to digital is because I cannot afford to have a lot of personal photography professionally scanned. And while my two scanners do an OK job - they do not compare favorably to professional drum scans. In other words I cannot easily, efficiently and economically get the quality of the film into digital files. However that does not mean that the film does not have the quality in terms of sharpness, tone, color, etc. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On Sep 2, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > In that case the Leica set up is hardly worth it - my take is that > the ease/quality of digital today