On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, mike wilson wrote: > My (presently) biggest gripe with digital imaging is the cost. For a > process that is not significantly better, except in immediacy of > results, I am expected to pay a very significant premium? No, thank > you. I can do almost the same thing by buying a film scanner for about > 1/5th of the price.
I moved away from film scanning a few years ago after getting sick one last time of dealing with dust on the slides. I really did like shooting slides and viewing them, but scanning them with anything less than a $1000 scanner just wasn't producing decent results. I don't know if prices for good scanners have come down and maybe that has changed. I was using a Nikon LS1000. I think my photography has improved as a result of using digital for a few years because I can preview right away and tweak the image by taking it again in a slightly different manner. The knowledge that I've picked up from this would probably carry over to film too. The only film that I expect I would shoot anymore is if my *ist D died on a trip, or if I was going somewhere that required I carried the smallest camera possible and then I would take my Ricoh GR-1. alex
