Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:02 PM 4/18/00 -0500, you wrote: >With all this talk of scanning, am I a minority of one in thinking that >sometimes the Kodachrome transparency itself is the end product? For my >personal work in color I just want to have luscious slides to look at. I >have thousands and don't see any reason to have them in nebulous electronic >form when that actual piece of film was on the scene with me and my camera >and shared the experience. > >Alan M-R Alan - The reasons include putting them in a database and sending out digital files to publishers instead of those precious originals. It's much easier, faster, and cheaper than having dupes made every time you need them. And with scans in a database, you can search actual images instead of words. If all of your photography is personal, the actual transparency can be an end product; but if you have to earn a living with your photographs, you will probably end up scanning them. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com