Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24

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Subject: [Leica] Bring Out the Negative Scanner
From: khagler at orange-road.com (Ken Hagler)
Date: Fri Jun 24 15:30:04 2005
 
on 6/24/2005 3:16 PM, Afterswift@aol.com wrote:

> Which reopens a question: why doesn't one of the major camera outfits 
> market
> a high quality yet reasonable 35mm negative scanner? Kodak and Fuji and 
> Leica
> should be in the lead. Nikon and Polaroid featured film scanners a few 
> years
> ago, but the market seemed to have lost its drive. That may be due to the 
> low
> cost transfer of negatives to CD positives now.

As you noted, Nikon does produce film scanners (mine is a Nikon). I believe
Canon does as well. I don't think the market has lost its drive, it's just
that the market for film scanners has always been relatively small and
specialized.
-- 
                              Ken Hagler

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