Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??

["Michael Wilkinson" <michael@infocus-photography.co.uk>]

You may well view my opinions as the vision of a soothsayer,however as
someone who earns their living from taking photos for industry I can
assure you that I speak with accumulated knowledge of just under 40
years  of  delivering images to clients in an ever changing  format.
Prints and Transparencies have become rare,digital files on CD have
become normal.
I admit to not being able to predict how those images will be laid onto
paper but do predict that brochures and leaflets requiring digital
images will be around for a while.
Ive seen cheapo scanners evolve into excellent bits of kit and  looking
at the escalating improvement in capture information from them really do
believe that for MOST purposes they are currently satisfactory.
Not for Billboard images maybe,and not good enough to provide all the
information you may need for a 5x4"negative output (144MB or so at 8k
resolution) but they are heading that way.
Don't be a DODO, open your eyes to the future ,its here now !!
keep smiling
Mr
Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Road,Ketley, Telford.Shropshire TF 15 DJ
  michael@infocus-photography.co.uk      www.infocus-photography.co.uk
For Trannies and Negs from Digital Files

Ps
Developed specifically for the commercial, social and portrait
photographer, the SprintScan 120 is the world's first, high resolution
medium format digital scanner. Priced at 2,650pounds the 120 allows for
multi format scanning from 35mm (positive/)negatives and slides all the
way up to 6x9cm. The SprintScan 120 has a maximum dpi capacity of
4000dpi and  a 3.9 optical density and is supplied with both Binuscan
Photoperfect and Silverfast software.

########################################################


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr Corbett
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??


:
: > Mr Wilkinson PLEASE!
: > Everyone likes to talk futures, it's fun and what's more it costs
nothing,
: > and what's even more, anyone can do it.
: >
: > Soothsaying has been with us always and always will be with us.
: > Just remember...soothsayers never make money because they never
guess right
: > often enough, but they do spend an inordinate amount of time on the
lecture
: > circuit - in other words they become famous for saying a lot and
producing
: > very little if anything at all.
:
: Mr. Corbett,