Re: filmscanners: Acer or Nikon?

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

trs80@btinternet.com wrote:


> There are a lot of  very serious professional B/W photographers out 
> there who would utterly disagree with that statement. Personally I LOVE 
> Tri-X it's gritty grainy and ultra sharp (and oddly I prize sharpness 
> above all else). One of the things I disliked about digital was it's 
> lack of grain and no messing about with P/S filters can put it back.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Graham

You can please some of the people some..... (you know how it goes ;-))

I still don't own a digital camera, unless you consider the Little Tyke 
one I bought which had a rebate equivalent to the cost...   Once prices 
drop in half one more time (a 1 megapixel for about $100) I will buy 
one, for the convenience, for ebay, for fooling around (ahem, some pics 
are not for the local film processor to see ;-))  But it will be a while 
before I will relinquish my film cameras.  If nothing else because of 
that bugaboo of storage again.

However, as an aside... don't confuse sharpness and visibility of grain, 
even if the human eye likes to.  Some digital sensors are capable of 
incredible sharpness, without grain, and that is an advantage to some.

Art