Hi, Cotty Yep. A scanner. Not just any scanner. It's an old Acer that uses a SCSI connection. SCSI may be even more dead than film...I retired it about five years ago because I had good Nikon scanners at the office. Dug it out the other day along with an old PCI SCSI card and some XP drivers that I'd archived, and miraculously it worked.
Anyhow, it will do until I get my Epson V750. All kidding aside, it is going to be very interesting to see what happens with film scanner availability in future. It could become quite a problem. One of my last work projects involved developing a slide copying system based on a 13.5 megapixel digital SLR. It worked quite well, producing very decent quality at a very high rate of production. Not up to scanner standards, though. I did a quick test of black and white negs with OK results. Colour negs? Didn't have time to go there. Anyhow, I'm planning to continue shooting a fair amount of film, especially black and white, now that I've retired. Have some sweet screw mount gear as well as a couple of LXs etc. And then there's the MF and 4x5 stuff I've accumulated. Still love the feel of good mechanical gear and now have the time to do something with my work- haven't done a show for years. Cheers John Poirier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cotty Sent: December 4, 2006 2:08 PM To: pentax list Subject: Re: How Long ... On 3/12/06, John Poirier, discombobulated, unleashed: >Hi. >I've been lurking on this list since sometime in the late 90s. I've rarely >participated because my day job involved demanding imaging work and I didn't >feel much like trying to interact on a computer on my down time. I have >greatly enjoyed monitoring the group, though. > >I recently retired and moved, so will have much more time to mess around >with with my own gear. Just got a film scanner going a few minutes ago. >I'm looking forward to posting some pics and getting involved with the >group. > >John Poirier Hi John, Er, film is dead. You have a ....sc..sc....scaaaner? That how you pronounce it?? (With apologies to Bob Newhart ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
