RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <LAURIE@advancenet.net>]

>That's what polish professional photographers practice, at least

I assume that is Polish as in Poland and not Polish as in the US. :-)

 I now understand where you may be coming from.   It is very possible that
there is not as much use of automated aperture card based printing for
Professional Portrait and Wedding Photographers taking place in Poland; but
it is a significant proportion of the medium format color negative film
processing and printing in North America.  I suspect that Minolta has geared
its scanner design to the North American market and the common practices of
medium format shooters in that market.  It is in light of that factor that I
made the comment which you quoted below.  It was not meant to be a put down
of you, which is why I included the smiley face.  However, in light of the
new information which you have provided, I do recognize that my comment was
very socio-culturally self centered in being based on North American
practices while ignoring the rest of the world.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Tomasz Zakrzewski
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 2:58 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips


Laurie Solomon
> When you play with the big boys; you often have to play by the established
> rules of their game not by the rules of some other group of player's game
or
> some other game. :-)

All the big boys I know, including me :-) cut 120 negative into strips and
archive them in sheets. That's what polish professional photographers
practice, at least. And this method is very comfortable, because I have all
my 120 negatives in the same binder as 35mm ones.

Is anybody able to help me find out if any of the film holders for the new
Minolta Dimage Multi Pro will enable me to scan 120 film strips? From the
pictures on the Minolta site it's not clear, but it seems that a special
Multi Format Attachement would allow this.

Regards

Tomasz Zakrzewski

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