2011/1/2 Jens <[email protected]>: > They still make imacon scanners (I believe they were Danish actually)? > Jens
The Imacon scanners are now sold as "Hasselblad Flextight" scanners. They're more expensive than a Pentax 645D by good margin. I'm sure the Pentax 67 is a wonderful tool for acquiring images. I frequently miss shooting with the 645Nii, but never get around to actually loading it with film. I remember I tried to consider the cost of the Pentax *istD against my expenses for film an processing, and concluded that I could buy a new digital SLR every third year for the amount of money I spent on the gelatine. And that didn't include the cost of scanning. I just did a quick look around the web for prices on film and processing in Norway. I used to shoot Provia a lot, so that's what I looked for. Assuming 10 exposures per 120mm film, I arrived at a cost of NOK 14,70 per exposure (film and E6 processing), from http://www.scandinavianphoto.no/ It was a bit more challenging to find services for scanning of 120mm film, but what I found was pretty scary. NOK 230,- for a raw scan of _one_ image. Price more than doubled for the "pro" treatment, including digital dust removal: http://www.farvelabben.no/filmscanning.html Excluding scanning, a Pentax 645D would break even with film cost at roughly 5800 exposures. I hope for your sake the Danish market has less hostile prices... :-) Of course there are loads of other factors to consider, such as time spent in workflow, cost of auxillary hardware (computers, archivning, etc.) and expected time to obsolence, but It could be worth doing, Jens. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
