Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/04

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Subject: [Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?
From: charcot at comcast.net (Charcot)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 20:18:13 -0600
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Tina - why do you say nobody shoots film anymore  - I assume you mean to say 
there isn't the market that there used to be hence the lack of development 
of new scanners.

ernie
On Jun 4, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> I really think they have stopped developing scanners.  Nobody shoots film
> any more.  The Nikon scanners are still the latest and greatest, as far as
> film scanners go.  Some people will tell you that you can use a slide
> duplicator and a DSLR to copy the slides and end up with a very good scan.
> Not true.  It doesn't even begin to have the same amount of information as
> a scan from a dedicated film scanner.
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> 
> I love my nikon scanner but time passes on and its real real old digitally
> 
>> speaking. The other guys I'm sure have come up with something.
>> 
>> [Rabs]
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> --
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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