I see that there will soon be a device produced by Imagek which will fit into a 35mm camera and record digital pictures. Is there a similiar device, other than a film scanner, which can take the place of photographic paper? Something you would place beneath your enlarger?

-- David Stout (stout@mindspring.com), February 03, 1999

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I confess to not understanding why you'd want to put something down in place of the paper, rather than just scanning the negative. Cost maybe? Actually, a moot question, since there's nothing out there that does this, at least as far as I'm aware. Sorry... :-(

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), February 06, 1999.

-----Original Message----- From: Dave Etchells [mailto:web@imaging-resource.com] Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:33 PM To: David R. Stout Subject: RE: Response to Digital Device Instead of Photographic Paper

Hi David-

If you would, could you post your query back to the message thread in the forum? That way, everyone will have the benefit of the discussion.

- Meanwhile, it turns out that the current crop of slide scanners really are pushing up against the limits of the film grain as it is. Check the image samples in the Nikon LS-2000 review, particularly the cropped portion of the Musicians II image: A little sharpening applied in Photoshop reveals that the scanner is actually capturing the film grain itself! - Somewhere around 2500- 2700 dpi, you'll start getting the grain of most film, and there are a number of scanners in that range.

Thanks for the great question! Dave Etchells web@imaging-resource.com

At 2:24 PM -0500 2/7/99, David R. Stout wrote: >My thinking is that with this type of setup your ability to enlarge a >photograph would be limited only to the graininess of the negative and not >the resolution of file from the scanned negative.

-- David Stout (stout@mindspring.com), February 08, 1999.