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Re: [Digital BW] B&W Scanning Quality

2007-12-23 by john dean

And they aren't going to change. The market for scanning 35mm film is
just about over, and no one is shooting 2 1/4 film commercially
anymore. I'm waiting for them to stop producing these things altogether.

john






--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Brian Mikiten
<bmikiten@...> wrote:
>
> The nikon hasn't changed in years. I just got one at $1800 plus $400  
> for a fluid mount.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Dec 23, 2007, at 2:25 PM, AnnMarie Tornabene wrote:
> 
> > Harry -
> >
> > That actually makes a lot of sense. I haven't researched dedicated
> > film scanners in a long time. Maybe I should look into it again,
> > providing prices have dropped....
> >
> >
> > AnnMarie
> >
> > AnnMarie Tornabene
> > www.annmarietornabene.net
> >
> > On Dec 23, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Harry Lockwood wrote:
> >
> >> With a ³high end² Nikon scanner at 4000 ppi, that should not have
> >> happened.
> >> I suspect they did the scans with some auto levels or curves or the
> >> like. I
> >> get excellent B&W scans from my Nikon 4000 ED, and then do post
> >> processing,
> >> not preprocessing.
> >
>

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