[filmscanners] Re: Digital Cameras coming down to earth

2003-10-01 Thread Austin Smith
The Epson has not gotten good reviews, but I know that wasn't your point. I've been a photographer on the silver side for decades, but lost my BW and Color processing facilities when I closed my business. Suddenly it just wasn't practical to take one or two frames for a project, and have them

[filmscanners] Re: Digital Cameras coming down to earth

2003-09-30 Thread
And slated for November release is the 8 megapixel Sony 828 in the $1300 range. That may be enough to obsolete my 2.5-year-old Olympus E-10, but I'll still be shooting my 50-year-old Zorki and 35-year-old Mamiya Press! Arthur Entlich wrote: Yeah, I know, this is a filmscanner group. But

[filmscanners] Re: Digital Cameras coming down to earth

2003-09-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
I was watching the opiate of the masses last night, and Gateway had an ad for a digital camera for $249. It seems to be a value priced version, also 5 MP and 3X optical zoom (Model DC-M50). This is getting too crazy! Just yesterday I was in a computer shop and a guy who seemed absolutely lost in

[filmscanners] Re: Digital Cameras coming down to earth

2003-09-30 Thread Clive Moss
At 05:18 PM 9/30/2003, Arthur Entlich wrote: he told me he goes to Costco for his processing and printing, and they charge something like $5 for developing and printing a 24 exposure to 4x6 prints. Our local Walgreens' was doing 4x6s from digital media for US $0.29 each. The infrastructure for