Digital BW, The Print

Murph,

> The current line-up is getting long in the tooth...

I'd be interested in knowing what about the current line-up is long in the
tooth in your opinion?

> However, CCD's (& CMOS) technology seems to be
> moving so fast
> that I'm suprised no new film scanners have been announced with
> greater resolution,
> faster, etc.  Any info would be appreciated...thanks...

They probably won't get any higher resolution than a 10k sensor which, over
a 2.25" span is why the current crop are 4k scanners), and they probably
won't get much faster.  CCD properties haven't gotten such that they require
less light to register the density of the film...that's a noise issue...
You are scanning, and have an exposure time of X, and scan, say, 10,000
lines...so it's quite deterministic to see that 10,000 times X is your
minimum scan time.

Do you really need more than 4k SPI?

Austin