RE: filmscanners: real value?

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

And, of course, we will have a paperless society, advanced artificial
intelligence, and Dot Coms will rule the world replacing the traditional
principles of economics and finance with new principles of finance and
economics where producing a profitable product is unnecessary as long as you
believe in vaporware. :-)    Color photography was suppose to completely
eliminate black & white photography except as a anachronistic specialty,
which accounts for the recent resurgence in black & white photography in
advertising as well as the fine arts photography to mention a few
applications that not only refused to die but actually came to life despite
color photography and all the predictions of death and doom for B&W.  :-)
In short, I think you are being much to optimistic about the futuristic
predictions.  However, I do think that any sort of ten year projections or
forecasts into the future are very risky and daring.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Berry Ives
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:15 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
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