Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun Dec 28 01:29:06 2008

Anyway especially if this is England the name of the company should be:

DIFFRACTION LTD

Lets get real here!!

Mark William Rabiner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction

Diff Fraction? 

Brother of Biff?

(friends call him Fuzzy?!?!?)

Cousin of 
Fuzzy Logic?



> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:48:52 +1000
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion
> 
> Just who is this mysterious cloaked poster?
> We don't usually do anonymous hereabouts!
> I found a Will Barton  with a diffraction photography. I think that he is 
> UK
> based??? 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff in Aus
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion
> 
> 
> Thanks for the replies, lots of great info here.
> 
> I think there's a consensus here that for 35mm film, a dedicated film
> scanner is a must for any decent quality.  Medium format seems to be quite
> more lenient until you need high quality scans for large prints.  I'm in
> total agreement with this.  As much as I would like to accommodate 2
> scanners, one for 35mm and one for 120 film, that is where I draw the line
> as I would rather buy a single scanner that does both than have 2 separate
> scanners, which in combination, would consume a lot more of my desk space.
> I'm a little quirky that way.
> 
> So understandably I will need to decide whether scanning my own 120 film is
> worthwhile, considering I shoot medium format much less than I do 35mm.
> Coming from digital imaging, I value convenience and my time but also
> quality so I do recognize the necessary evils of digital
> scanning requires patience.   Argh!  Choices!
> 
> Geoff Hopkinson,  I suspect we have "met" somewhere? :)
> 
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion)