Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/20

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Subject: Re: digital
From: bholmes@frii.com (Ben Holmes)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:20:25 -0600 (MDT)

>Douglas McLernon
>Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>E-mail - Economic<Douglas.McLernon@tcd.ie>
>Personal <dmcl@iol.ie>
>
> I agree with Marc. Digital imaging has a long way to go before it replaces
>film.

The real advances are being made in output, not capture. For really large
display images, such as for trade show booths, the artwork that they hang on
the sides of buses, etc. are produced using digital scans/electrostatic
color output known as CACTUS. Really cool stuff.


Regards,



Ben W. Holmes
Boulder, CO

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