Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu Jan 12 08:25:49 2006
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Nikon has a roll-film adaptor for their 4000/5000 series of scanners
and it works wonderfully!

I think Tina uses one also.

Adam

On 1/12/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> I was hoping that scanners would, like laser printers, get faster and
> better. And do a whole roll of 35mm film while I watch Seinfeld. I think
> that Pacific Image does have a whole-roll scanner, but the reviews of their
> scanners are generally in the area of 1 1/2 stars out of 5.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
> Dernie
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:36 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras
>
>
> Me too, I bought one a few years ago, concerned that my investment
> would be short lived and new better machines would tempt me before
> long, but that was the end of it, the market went digital so quickly
> once people were satisfied with the quality that I imagine there is
> pretty well no market for film scanners.
> Mind you good scans take me so long that I often don't have time to
> scan as much as I would like. I took 14 rolls of 120 film on my
> August holiday and have only scanned 4 frames so far.
> Frank
>
> On 12 Jan, 2006, at 00:19, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> > I was very surprised to see how few film scanners there are around
> > now.
>
>
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Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras)
Reply from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras)
Reply from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras)
In reply to: Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras)
Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] nikon to discontinue most film cameras)