Digital BW, The Print

At 11:32 PM +0000 3/19/06, ginnylady33 wrote:
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>[snip]
>My situation is probably unique for this board. I don't own a digital
>camera.

Me, either, Ginny. I'm still looking for one I'd like to use, but I'm 
also still shooting color film. And convert scans of it for printing 
BO or B&W, mostly so I can shoot and print color too without 
elaborating my kit more than necessary.


>  I still shoot film, develop it myself and scan it on an
>LS-9000. So, it is not a hassle after scanning a roll of film, to make
>a CD backup. It only take a few minutes.
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Does the LS-9000 pause between exposures for you to see whether you 
want to make any adjustments and then let you use the computer for 
something else while it does the next exposure?

Does a whole roll of 16-bit scans fit comfortably on a single CD? I 
think I'd like to have a one-to-one correspondence between the rolls 
of film and the CDs. Giving that up is the only thing I don't like 
about using DVDs instead. But maybe I'll do both - make a CD at scan 
time as you do and also make a DVD of n CDs for the sake of 
redundancy and more compact off-site storage.

Maybe you can tell I need a new scanner. And a new computer with a 
killer optical drive. And ... .
--
Sam