"Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Today I accidentally put an "old" (April 2004) CD in my computer. That was a >Irfan View slide show, featuring scanned shots made with a MZ-S. They really >looked very good! It made me wonder, that if the film manufacturers had made >it possible for me to get film scanned to high quality files, rather fast >(two - three days) at a reasonable price, film might have been able to >survive quite a bit longer. I - for one - wouldn't have gone to digital just >yet, if I had more obvious/better scanning options, than to buy a 500 USD >(Epson 3200) scanner and use way to much time getting mediocre results.
Well last year Kodak bought Applied Science Fiction's dry C-41 process that produces high resolution files on CD (but no negatives). When it first appeared, I thought this process had no future; I mean, digital files only and no negatives (the film is destroyed for all practical purposes in development)? But now with almost everyone accustomed to digital and having CD's instead of negatives, I think it just might fly. I'm sure serious photographers won't dream of giving up negatives (I know I wouldn't!) but I can see it in standalone kiosks in shopping malls, etc. for people with disposable cameras and such. Of course, one good question is how high is their "high resolution"? -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
