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Subject: [OM] Re: slightly OT - UK - film scanning - business proposition?
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:21:35 -0700
Michael Reichmann on Luminous Landscape when he was comparing film and 
digital got a couple of drum scans and compared them to his 4000 dpi 
Nikon scans. There was not a heck of a lot of information left on the 
film after 4000dpi.



Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Sep 17, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

>
> Simon
>
> Sorry, I cannot comment on the business proposition part of it; it was
> one of the ways that I justified my purchase of a scanner back in 1998,
> but I have not sold any scans yet ;-).
>
> Why spend as much as that?  The Minolta 5400 is only around £500 in
> some places (see AP).
>
> Where was your father in the 70s?  I left Delhi in 1974 on joining the
> RAF; my father was manager of the Standard Bank in Delhi, previously
> manager of the Bank in Calcutta.  I visited them in both places during
> the school holidays and before joining the RAF.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 17 Sep 2004, at 19:53, Simon Worby wrote:
>
>>
>> The last bit sounds like one of those horrible spam messages, doesn't
>> it?
>>
>> It isn't, though, I promise, so read on!
>>
>> I'm seriously considering buying a high quality film scanner in the
>> £1000 bracket (Nikon 4000 ED, to be precise). But I can't really
>> justify it since I don't yet have any slides to scan, though I'm
>> intending to move over to slides-only photography hence the need. My
>> father has loads of old Kodachrome slides from the 70's (OM-1), mostly
>> of India, and he's willing to chip in something. The plan is to scan
>> them in and then send of a CD to get the best ones printed for
>> display.
>>
>> What do folk think about the possibility of marketing film scanning to
>> try to offset some of the cost of the equipment, and perhaps offer the
>> service of professional printing (open an account with Peak Imaging
>> (for example)) and reselling the printing side of it as an addition?
>> Is there a market for this sort of thing? Would it be easy to promote
>> (without spending money on advertising)? I'm not really looking into
>> turning it into a business -- I think very quickly it would become
>> even more boring than what I currently do for a living! I'm not even
>> particularly looking for profit. More a way of justifying the
>> expenditure to 'er indoors...
>>
>> Comments anyone?
>>
>> Simon
> <|_:-)_|>
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