Digital BW, The Print

I also know little or nothing of digital capture (I do use an Olympus C4000
for digital infrared b&w), but am interested.  Out of boredom, I have been
placing objects (calladium leaves etc.) on the bed of my Heidelberg scanner
to try a little collage.  Actually, I was fairly astounded at the detail and
tonal range of the scans.  Given the limited DOF, they surpass anything I've
seen so far, including high-end scans of my LF negs.  It occurred to me that
I might have something akin to an 8x10 digital camera that slowly captures
140mb 16-bit files, probably not a fair comparison to a digital SLR.  But,
the lure is there.  Adding to the lure is the X-disc, a small pocket size
hard drive that you dump the media into in the field (40gb or so).
Belkin/Nixvue has one also.  From what I have seen, I figure a SLR body,
memory and a couple of lenses is a $10K shot more or less.  Does anyone know
of a reasonably unbiased source comparing digital capture and film scans,
with high-res examples?  Right now I mostly use 35mm scanning on a Nikon
4000ED (into portability), not a pro scanner but pretty good.  thanks.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "e8121" <e8121@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Taking the plunge


> Been reading this thread with interest....
> Lot's of interesting perspectives from both sides.  One thing for sure is
that digital
> isn't going away. Its fascinating that those that have absolute comfort
scanning
> digitally and printing digitally are averse to digital capture.  I shoot
digital because I
> don't like chemicals in my studio or house. For the things I shoot my
'old' canon 1D
> allows prints up to 20x30 and i get excellent conversions to black and
white with
> software (imaging factory) where I have great control of what film
emulation or use of
> filters.   Clearly digial capture has become good enough that the issue
has become a
> matter of opinion not a matter of fact.  Use what you like!
>
> Eric HIss
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Robert Morrison
> <rmorrison@p...> wrote:
> > On 6/16/03 6:06 PM, "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> >
> > > Claude writes:
> > >
> > >> The Sigma SD-9 acts more like film than any other
> > >> single shot digicam and it's only $1,200 street
> > >> price ...
> > >
> > > You can get an excellent film SLR for $250 or so.
> > >
> > And it won't be outdated in another six months...and your "negatives"
won't
> > be obsolete either when the technology improves likewise...you can
simply
> > rescan the film.  If you capture the image with a 6megapixel
camera...that's
> > all image will ever be.
> >
> > Robert
>
>
>
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