Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Conclusion: Leica glass + good minilab = the fastest super high resolution/high quality image printing solution available today ! Alan Or, assuming a mini-lab that really provides one-hour service.....leave hospital, drop film, pick up 30 minutes later for $2.50 @ - $5.00 View negs on scanner, scan those to print...10?...45 minutes....tops...cost...zip... total time to play with and print 10 reasonably good negs...2 hours tops...cost...$5.00 worth of paper Pop in albums...10 minutes...tops.... Total time...4 hours....and that's assuming problems with the prints... Total cost...$10 plus film and album cost... And unless you're doing a bunch of 8x10s or larger, I'd match the digital prints against the mini-lab 4x6s....And, all of the minilab calculations assume that - a) they're not backed up and can really get you your negs and prints in an hour...b) that the machines are working right on the given day..c) that the right tech is on duty so that you get decent prints.... The bottom line is...the digital route is markedly less expensive, and, on average, just as good for producing an album of 4x6 prints...and the digital route lets you prints those 4x6s on 8x10 paper, which looks very nice indeed... SO - Conventional film - Leica optics - conventional film processing - digital scanning and printing...the way of the next 50 years...(right Jim B?)