Its all relative to the equipment used. I use a Nikon Super Cools 4000 ED scanner on my slide captured images & get very good results without any fiddling.
YMMV Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Best SD card for K10D Scanning negatives is much more time consuming and much more difficult than processing digital files. All this is a non-starter for me, digital has been a foregone conclusion for quite some time. There is no debate. One day soon there may well be no film. Paul On Nov 13, 2006, at 5:18 AM, mike wilson wrote: > >> >> From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2006/11/12 Sun PM 10:38:36 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Best SD card for K10D >> >> I consider my system modest, but I have approximately one terabyte of >> hard disk space, and I'm going to add another 500 gigabytes soon. >> I've also backed up 600 gigabytes of photo files on DVD. It's >> inexpensive and easy. >> Paul > > All comparative. You are looking at at least £1000 of equipment in > the UK, assuming that you have decent accessories such as > monitors. It's a sum that just doesn't add up to a saving unless > you are working at high volumes or can write some of the cost off > as a business. > > Plus, we haven't even started on the extra time our hobby now > takes. How quickly did you get cheesed off with scanning > negatives? That's about the time the "average person" will take to > get thoroughly sick of the "fiddling" (a description I have heard > myself) required by digital. Fine if you are getting paid for it > but a non-starter for unfanatics. > >> On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> >>> Right now I've only got about 300gb of useable hard drive space. >>> Of that, >>> the O/S, the Page File, and some programs take a bite. I could use >>> another >>> large drive or two, mainly to get the files into an archive that >>> can be >>> accessed and to free up hard disk space on the computer. What >>> really ate >>> into my space was scanning negatives. Each file was huge by >>> comparison to >>> the DSLR files. >>> >>> Shel >>> >>> >>> >>>> [Original Message] >>>> From: Peter Lacus >>> >>>> well I work with computers for almost all my life, but my main >>>> computer >>>> still have meagre 40GB disk inside. I suppose yours must be >>>> significanlty larger to accommodate your shooting style. :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.ntlworld.com > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software > Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
