Once upon a midnight dreary, Uncle Roger had spoken clearly:
>Scanner (Cheap) $50
Not worth owning.... $180.00
>Cheap 35mm Camera $50
Not worth owning... $125 (used Canon t-body or other *decent* 35mm)
>ScanTime (I got it down to 4 minutes per pic)
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.. No wonder you don't want to wait!
My (new) Umax Astra 1220S - 600x1200 DPI, 23Meg scan: 45 Seconds flat.
(lower resolutions are obviously faster - 15-20 sec's for 100-200 dpi)
(erm, get a *good* SCSI card, too. Mine's a Diamond Fireport 40 UW -
*fast*. -- that and the 256Meg RAM in my machine doesn't hurt either... ;-)
>Now for multiple rolls (say 5):
>
>Sony Scan
>$660 $125 Equip/Supplies
>$ 0 $480 Scan Time
>---- ----
>$660 $605
>
>The more you take, the more cost effective it becomes. (Mind you, I don't
>know how you value your time, but waiting for a scanner hardly seems a good
>use of my time).
As above, don't wait. Spend a little more for a good one.
Also, the better scanners you can scan multiple pictures in one shot - my
Umax does that.
Of course, if you're doing solely web publishing where picture quality
doesn't have to be pristine, your point is well taken.
>The Mavica is not the cheapest DigCamera either. If you go for one of the
>less expensive models, your costs go way down.
Erm... then you wait for the serial port. Tho I'm not keen on the Mavica
(due to low resolution) waiting for scanner (sweet pix) vs. waiting for
serial (cruddy pix) is a lot closer to a no-brainer. Of course there's USB,
but those cameras are rather expensive yet (last I checked).
I'm not knocking the digpix... for many, many things they're very handy;
and the Mavica is about the best for web-stuff due to storage format... but
it's much easier to re-touch a never-been-lossy-compressed 600dpi 23M image
for best quality vs. a 640x480 mediocre-at-best pre-compressed image.
And if you get a Ricoh digcamera, there's one thing it can do that *no*
35mm camera (that I know of) can... record a soundbyte with the picture and
xfer the stuff over at the same time.
Just my $0.000000002 (and that's all it's worth),
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 19:54:52 GMT