[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
When was the last time you saw a 8mm movie film to video transfer system sold retail? I imagine there are some commercial outfits still offering video transfer services, but even those are probably disappearing. What I am getting at is this: Film will become specialty product, available by

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread Mike Kersenbrock
Arthur Entlich wrote: When was the last time you saw a 8mm movie film to video transfer system sold retail? I imagine there are some commercial outfits still offering video transfer services, but even those are probably disappearing. How popular were 8mm movies as compared to still photos

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread
Poppy cock. As long as there are photographic *artists*, there will be mono chrome emulsion shooting, even if no company chooses to make film any longer. I don't imagine that many photographic artists make much coin, but Sally Mann's work is very popular, get's top marquee exhibitions and her

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread Berry Ives
I think Arthur and Austin are very much on target. Some specialty labs will provide certain film services like scanning, etc. Since when did artists ever have the market clout to dictate what would be manufactured or supported by the manufacturers of mass market products? Besides, most of them

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
When you start getting desperate for BW paper, let me know ;-). I have pounds and pounds of the stuff, and that just may go up in price. I have several packages of papers no longer made. Some may be fogged by now, I don't know. BTW, the main used camera and darkroom equipment store in Victoria

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
There are a good half a dozen new technologies waiting in the wings to supersede LCD panels. It is one of the reasons LCD panels are dropping rapidly, and CRT are literally not being made anymore (as I understand it the manufacturers, which are all in Asia, are pretty much working on leftover

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread
I don't know how camera shops survive (minus a few high end service oriented shops in a few cities where there's a large enough and well healed market for those services). I buy pretty much everything online from the usual suspects although sometimes I'll get an itch and head on over to a local

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread lists
I used Moniserv in Hayward Ca to get the CRT going again. Most of their business is (don't laugh) CCFT replacement in LCD displays. I've never seen so many Apple Cinema displays in one place. Sony displayed a LCD TV using white leds at the 2004 CES. Samsung displayed a DLP TV using RGB leds at

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-25 Thread skip crawford
do you have any info on these new technologies??? Skip Crawford Slaton Service Co. Auntskip's Tees Slaton Tx.[EMAIL PROTECTED] 806-828-5412 Photography, Screen Printing, Transfers, Vinyl Signage - Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: