Re: filmscanners: real value?

["IronWorks" <ironworks@ameritech.net>]

And we now have the paperless office that was predicted 5 years ago.

Maris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Berry Ives" <yvesberia@earthlink.net>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: real value?


| on 1/29/01 2:21 PM, Michael Wilkinson at michael@infocus-photography.co.uk
| wrote:
| > If you really want good value for money allied to something which will
| > last a decade you have to look at what you want from the product.
| > ....buy it at the right price and you are set for
| > the next Decade
| > Make no mistake about it.
| > if a scanner is doing a good job now the chances are that only a real
| > expert will be able to see a difference in your final output in 10 years
| > time.
| Very daring of you to make a 10-yr forecast about anything digital.
|
| Here's my forecast:  35mm film will be rarely used, except for very
| specialized applications, since digital will take over that market.
Digital
| SLRs will be as affordable as the Pentax XZ-5n.  The scanners will still
be
| around, though, since there are so many old images on film.  But the ones
we
| are buying today will definitely be in the landfill.
|
| --Berry
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