Thank you, Adam. I have a relatively recent iMac (running 10 point something), but the printer I own was given to me, and it is an older one (an inkjet) with mediocre poor print quality and expensive cartridges ($30 at Wal-Mart). Thus, if I take your advice and go the scanner route, I would have to buy a scanner and printer. What would about $200 or so (for each) buy? I gather the new inkjets are a good deal better than those made five or ten years ago? The older inkjets I have seen make digital photos look like a study in Seuratian pointilism and blue-is-green-black-is-purple color variance.
Glen On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > Get a scanner, and you can do the same with your film stuff. All my > film > work (and I'm only shooting film now) is scanned and printed with an > inkjet. It works pretty well for me. > > -Adam > > > Glen Tortorella wrote: >> Good commentary, Godfrey. Have you read Rebekah's remarks? I tend >> to think that this is just another financial black hole. On the >> surface, I think: great! I can just get a good deal on a DSLR, buy a >> rreasonably-priced printer, hook it up to my IMac, and make as many >> prints as I wish, but then there are those "hidden" costs...ink, >> paper, software, and who knows what else... >> >> Perhaps this is why I have tried to remain ignorant of the DSLR >> world. >> >> Thanks, >> Glen >> >> On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> Glen Tortorella wrote: >>>> While I have been resistant to digital for quite some time, I find >>>> this article interesting. The idea of getting a good "budget" DSLR >>>> has crossed my mind, but I know so little about working within the >>>> DSLR format that I cannot get motivated to buy one. I tend to like >>>> prints. Thus, I ask the supremely elementary question: how does >>>> one >>>> turn the zeros and ones stored in the DSLR's memory into prints? >>>> Would a computer and/or scanner be necessary (I do not have a >>>> scanner, but I do have an iMac), or can a camera shop or photo lab >>>> supply the means to do this if one does not have a scanner? >>> You're asking these questions as if you knew nothing at all, which I >>> suspect isn't quite true. >>> >>> - No scanner is used when you're using a digital camera. Scanners >>> are >>> used to capture film and print images into digital images. A digital >>> camera produces digital images. >>> >>> - You print a digital camera's photos the same way you print >>> anything >>> else: to a printer connected to either camera or computer, to an >>> online print service having moved the image files from camera to >>> computer, or by using a printer kiosk at a local store. >>> >>> - If you have an iMac, you connect the camera to the computer with >>> its supplied cable. By default, iPhoto (supplied on every Apple >>> system by default) will start up and download all the photographs so >>> you can sort, show, and print them, to either a connected printer >>> via >>> a print service on the internet. >>> >>>> And, finally, how does the K100D compare to the Nikon...the D40 or >>>> D50, I gather? >>> A matter of opinion. They all work well at the level of questions >>> you >>> are posing. If you already have Pentax lenses, it makes sense to buy >>> a Pentax DSLR: it will save you money. If you don't have Pentax >>> lenses, pick whichever one feels best in your hands and enjoy it ... >>> they all work better than the majority of owners can exploit. >>> >>> Godfrey >>> >>> -- >>> 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 > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
