>> There are several people on this list who use 4000 dpi film
>> scanners. And Kodak photo CDs can be made for anyone. And who
>> says you have to scan your film at all?
>
>I was gonna say that it's the same argument as "Why spend money for good
>lenses when all you're going to do is make 4x6s?" :)
>
>But I'll tell ya...regardless of how unsharp your film is and how lo-res
>your scanner is (or how unsharp your enlarger lenses are), if you really
>look at the images you can see the difference. I almost wept when I got
>back my first roll of film (printed in 4x6s) shot with my SMC-A* 200mm
>f2.8. There is a clear and obvious difference, even on a 4x6 minilab
>print. Scale that difference up to an 8x10 or 11x14, and it's a huge difference.
I can still clearly remember the first enlargements I made of
photos taken with my FA*24/2.0: They were *literally*
breathtaking. I just gasped.
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