Re: Digicam

["Phil.Lippincott" <phil.lippincott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi dickbo,

    If when using the 8000 dpi drum scan of a 35mm I can get a flawless perfect
90 Mp scan how can you say that a 16Mp camera compares.  Film is is still King
and the drum scanner simply lets the best of the film meet the best of the
digital.

dickbo wrote:

> 16Mp camera backs already exist and have done so for at least the last 5
> years. If a professional photographer cannot fund 10k over three years, and
> bearing
> in mind capital allowances before tax mean it ends up costing nothing, then
> one wonders just what kind of a business income that person is earning.  once
> we can all afford a
> 16Mp back it's goodbye to film.....mostly.

  I'm sure that Crossfield, Hell and others had a very important contribution to
make to the drum scanner industry.  Yet other firms like Howtek and Screen also
have contributed a lot and they have and do use Hamatsu Photo Multipliers.
Hamatsu is an independent manufacturer and supplier of  alive and well in 2002
selling Photo Multipliers for laboratory, spectra sensing and yes scanner
applications.  Also the Howtek scanner factory, parts and service and sales are
alive and well here at Aztek.  My firm Aztek announced a new model Premier drum
scanner this year that is twice as fast and has 30% better density response than
any comparable CCD scanner.  It also cost less than many of the Professional
flatbeds like Creo, Heidelberg, ScanView and Screen.    You can review the
Premier at   www.aztek.com

Phil Lippincott
Aztek
23 Spectrum Pointe #209
Lake Forest, Ca 92630
v   949-770-8787
v   1-800-GRAPH-55
f   949-770-4986


dickbo wrote:

> The drum scanner industry is no longer growth which means eventually that as
> spares and service know-how diminish there will be fewer and fewer in
> commercial use and the role of image production from film will also
> diminish, as direct digital imaging becomes better and better and more to
> the point very much cheaper.
>
> ICrosfield Electronics, in their time a world leader in technical
> drum scanning inovation, had to go out and buy a photomultiplier
> manufacturer in order to ensure a regular supply of said devices because
> world demand had fallen to such a low level that an independent manufacturer
> could no longer justify production. That was in the 80's when the drum ruled
> supreme and sales growth was big, big, big.
>
>

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