Digital BW, The Print

Antonis,

> The Leaf was great in
> its days,

In it's days?  I guess today is still "in it's days" then ;-)

None of the current scanner, even the Imacon, have all the aspects of the
Leaf...and certainly none surpass it for B&W.  Scans 35mm at 5080.  Scans up
to 4x5...scans B&W using a single ND filter...  Some do scan MF at higher
resolution, but I haven't missed the resolution, as they scan 35mm at a
lower resolution...and since the resolution is proportional throughout all
the film sizes it scans, it gives you plenty of resolution to print anything
an Epson 3000 can print for paper sizes from any format.

> but
> probably a rare antique now

Well, I'll put it up against any scanner alive for B&W.  Mine works fine
with W2k, it's as fast as any other (4 minutes for a 6x6 B&W scan)...and has
a better scanner driver than I've seen on any other scanner...no fuss, no
muss...setpoints, tonal curves, histogram...done.

Regards,

Austin