Digital BW, The Print

SKID Photography wrote:

> 
> An interesting side bar on all of this is that several years ago, it was
> acceptable even the norm, to shoot in 35mm format for magazines (like fashion)
> and then, along came contemporary digital scanning and all of a sudden,
> everything had to be shot in medium format.

I don't understand what has changed over the last few years. What
exactly do you mean by "contemporary digital scanning" ? Digital
scanning may be new to us ... but magazines have been drum scanning
transparencies for print for a long long time.

-Jeff