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Re: [OM] Re: Olympus at Photokina (translation wanted)

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Olympus at Photokina (translation wanted)
From: "Mark Hammons" <astair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 12:25:54 -0500
>The only item which yielded a
>hmmnnnn for me was the $400 ES-10 film (2x2 slides and negative strips)
>scanner.  A 1,700 dpi scan of a 35 mm slide yields an 11 MB file.  The
>quality looked very good on their display monitor.  The max display with
>the Olympus scanner software was 200%.  

1700 dpi scanner ( assuming excellent optics in the scanner -- buy hey
its OLY so it should be!)  would yield an image roughly equivalent to a
2400x1600 CCD on a 36x24mm film plane.  Not a bad deal -- especially
for $400!!

>Digital is the way to go in the commercial world, and is coming our way.
>I've got four OM bodies, a 1, two 2s and a 4T and scads of lenses.  Gotta
>think about that scanner.
>

Amen to that!

Mark H.



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