[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-24 Thread lists
I'll plead ignorance here, but I thought the only silver based film is B&W, excluding products like Kodak Portra BW. I'm not convinced Nikon is the end to all ends of film scanners, so the question is when will the whole market die. My biggest complaint in film scanning is the lower quality of th

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-24 Thread
I just went to a small rally in support of Denmark. There were TV film crews and several PJ's there. I was really surprised (and sort of pleased) that many of the PJ's were using high end Canon film bodies. I'm told that it's all gone digital, but that's not what I saw today. There were a ton of

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon scanner availability

2006-02-24 Thread Austin Smith
Let me throw in my 2-cents worth, here. I think scanners of many types will be around for some time to come. It does appear to be true that many silver-based B&W negative films are being phased out, along with the papers to print them. Transparency film will rule the commercial roost for a long