1. The follow on E-1 will likely be called the E-3, for some unknown reason,
likely to do with asian language issues.
2. Scanned film is every bit as good as a digital image, it's just that you
need to spot it in PS to remove the inevitable dust. Colors can be corrected
equally well in either medium.
3. Scanning film is a hassle, there's no getting around that. In the end, I
wish I had something that captured film and digital at the same time. But the
lack of incremental cost for digital shooting is quite liberating. Even after
shooting for 30 years, I still get a little concerned about taking too much
film, as I know it costs me to get it processed.
4. The advantages of digital editing, ease of distribution, and easy computer
monitor viewing almost offset the film advantage of the beauty of a projected
slide. In the end, for my uses, I NEVER get the projector out, and my family
and friends aren't interested in looking at slides. Prints, on the other hand,
are a hassle to get perfect from either medium.
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>Subject: [OM] Scan OM/film or get digital camera?
> From: Jez.Cunningham@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:14:56 +0200
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
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>Currently I use Velvia or Portra and scan if I want to do home
>tweaking/printing. I like the presentation of slides (also at the camera
>club) but even with the projector and screen set up permanently we don't
>sit and look through them as often as we should. I feel that a CD/DVD on
>the TV would be more-or-less equivalent.
>
>Now, I (only) have an Acer Scanwit 2720 and I was very happy with the
>output until I downloaded some full-size test images from digital cameras.
>Wow! And so clean - no scratches, dust, colo(u)r-cast,... So is my
>scanner a weak link?
>
>Question: For those of you who used to scan film and then went digital, did
>you EVER get a scan as good as the file you get out of a decent digital
>camera?
>
>(I'm trying to make up my mind: Go E-1 or similar? Wait E-2 or similar?
>Get much better scanner?)
>
>thanks for sharing your experiences
>jez
>
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