That will work if she can find a place that will do good high resolution scans 
at an affordable price. I've seen MF drum scans priced as high as $200 per 
frame. And the kind of scans you'll get from most labs are garbage.
Paul

On Jan 21, 2011, at 2:28 PM, John Sessoms wrote:

> If she's already got contact sheets, flat bed scans should be good enough to 
> allow her to choose which negatives she wants to pay to have the high 
> resolution scans made from, shouldn't it?
> 
> Good enough to carry her through until she has time to find a darkroom or buy 
> a dedicated medium format film scanner.
> 
> From: Paul Stenquist
>> If you really want a 6x7, you can be sure that Bill's camera is in
>> excellent condition and fairly priced.
>> 
>> Remember though, that to take advantage of those big negs, you will
>> need either a darkroom or a relatively high end scanner, like the
>> Nikon medium format film scanner. You can get decent scans on a good
>> flatbed, but your results will be about as good as what you'd get
>> from an *istD or other relatively low resolution digital camera. Been
>> there, done that. Fun, but not very productive. Paul
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:15 AM, William Robb wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 20/01/2011 11:05 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
>>>>>> on hold at a neighborhood camera store here in Chi Town, and
>>>>>> I'm thinking about it. For $549.00 I get the camera & a 90mm
>>>>>> lens. I have read about the camera & know about the Mirror
>>>>>> Lock Up issue. I have found and downloaded 6 x 7 user manual
>>>>>> I found on the net. I've read about the camera via Wikipedia.
>>>>>> I've opened the back, looked at the insides, depressed the
>>>>>> shutter using the "special trick" when no film is loaded. I
>>>>>> found a photo lab very near my house, which will process 120
>>>>>> & 220 film, create contact sheets, and create scans (120/220
>>>>>> negative at 18mb $1.00/per neg & 120/220 negative at 19-128MB
>>>>>> $3.00/per neg).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've mention many times that I'd love to do/learn medium
>>>>>> format work. Film is really my only way in to this kind of
>>>>>> photography because of its affordability.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So what do you guys think? Should I do it?
>>>>>> 
> 
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