Digital BW, The Print

> Austin I have had scans made with a leafscan. They are very high
> quality. But most of today's scanners could easily equal equal the
> quality of that 10 year old scanner.

No scanner made today can equal it for B&W, period.  The Leaf scans B&W AS
B&W, not as RGB...converted.  All new scanners scan B&W as RGB and convert
it...

> By the way, wasn't that scanner about
> 500 pounds,

85.

> and didn't it take over an hour and a half to scan a 35mm
> slide?

Possibly a color slide, but it scans 6x6 B&W in 4 minutes or less.

> The one Monarch Photo in Fargo had took that long and weighed
> about that much. He didn't have it long, too unproductive. Too time
> consuming. etc.  But nice quality!

Actually, it is the most prolific bureau scanner of all time...though the
bureaus have been moving to newer scanners...so it isn't that unproductive.
You just have to know how to use it, and keep the bulb calibrated so your
exposure times are not excessive.  Scan time is very deterministic...number
of lines x (exposure time + line overhead) plain and simple.

But, for me, it's simply great, and as I've said, NO scanner can equal it
for B&W.

Regards,

Austin