Digital BW, The Print

digikdm,

> You might consider biting the bullet and going digital with the Canon
> 1Ds. Buy the time you buy a new MF camera with lenses and a good
> Nikon scanner, you are in the range cost-wise of a 1ds. The quality
> is similar;

Personally, I'd say the "quality" (a very subjective term, of course) is no
where near "similar".

> you'll never have film costs again; and you'll have the
> flexibility of 35mm.

Of a DIGITAL 35mm...tied to batteries (and buying batteries) and a
computer...forever.

You paint a rather panaceic picture, that simply doesn't tell near the whole
story in reality.

Austin