Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] film scanner DMax
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 09:38:14 -0300

Gary:

The photofinisher can transfer slides to Photo CD.  There is no need to
copy them on to negative film.

Regards,

Robert


>I am looking at an economical way to produce some digital scans and wonder
>if anyone would comment on the technique I am planning. My Honeywell
>Repronar just did a great job of making b&w positives for projection (using
>Kodak HC film to photograph the original negative - i.e., a negative of a
>negative gives a positive).
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>Now I would like to use the Repronar to take color negs of slides and then
>turn them in for Kodak PhotoCD processing. Film and processing will run
>less than $30 for 36 exposures (if I don't get prints made, too). Less than
>a dollar per scan would be very economical for fairly high resolution scans
>on the CD.
>
>Someday an LS1000 or 2000 would be great to have, but for now, the dup/CD
>approach seems to be an easy way to test the digital waters (I already have
>Photoshop 4.0). Any comments or ideas? Neg film to use, etc?
>
>Thanks!
>Gary Todoroff
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