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Bill Graham wrote,on my timestamp of 26/12/2010 12:46 PM:

>
> No, I mean more pixels per inch. I have a camera with a 24 by 36 mm sensing
> plane, but it only has about 12 megapixels. Nikon makes one with about 24
> megapixels. I believe the future will bring 50 or more megapixels crowded into
> the same size sensing plane. More resolution at, hopefully the same speed.
> Pretty soon, the resolution of film will be surpassed, and digital cameras will
> yield better resolution than film cameras. At this point, film will truely
> become obsolete.



Yeah I see your point. But I doubt that we need anything higher than 20MP.
I've just had a sensational canvas print made from a humble D200's 10MP and it
is absolutely stunning at 20X30 inches. No need for any more detail, not at
that price point.
The issue to me is not the number of pixels, I get plenty from both digital and
film at today's lens technology. It's the handling of each colour and its
sensitivity curve that gets me with digital. Coming from a film background and
being used to the way colours "mix and balance" in film, I have great difficulty
in getting similar balance curves in digital. Possible but requires a lot of
work and time, as much as I spend scanning. I do believe the D3 and the D700
are much better, will have to get one to try. I'm finding the Oly E-PL1 to be
very close to what I like and have more or less sorted a workflow in the Nikons
that gets me almost there. But it's still not quite.
That's 35mmm, with the MF stuff there is simply nothing at my price point that
gets near.
It'll happen, but I'll be too old to use it then...

"Alan Justice" <> wrote:
>"Bruce" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> Nikon has finally discontinued the Coolscan 9000ED. This brings an
>> end to the Coolscan range which formerly consisted of the Coolscan V
>> and Coolscan 5000ED for APS and 35mm film scanning, plus the 9000ED
>> for 35mm and medium format film.
>>
>> There will be no further manufacture of Nikon film scanners.


>I hope they will still service them.


Nikon usually abides by the "rule" that spares and service will be
available for ten years from the date of discontinuation. However,
that is not universally the case. For example, owners of the original
version of the AF Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 (pre-D version) found that the
ribbon cable between the CPU and lens mount was in short supply after
a much shorter period than ten years.


>I have 50k slides.


So have I, but they have almost all been scanned.

Bowser wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:29:39 +0000 (UTC), (Edward A.
> Falk) wrote:
>
> >In article <>,
> >Bruce <> wrote:
> >>Nikon has finally discontinued the Coolscan 9000ED.
> >
> >How are we supposed to scan our negatives, short of buying a used one
> >on eBay?
>
> Buy a Canon or Epson flatbed scanner.


Hint: Hewlett-Packard "ScanJet G4050" flatbed.

--
Cordially,
John Turco <>

Marie's Musings <http://fairiesandtails.blogspot.com>

Bruce wrote:
>
> Nikon has finally discontinued the Coolscan 9000ED. This brings an
> end to the Coolscan range which formerly consisted of the Coolscan V
> and Coolscan 5000ED for APS and 35mm film scanning, plus the 9000ED
> for 35mm and medium format film.
>
> There will be no further manufacture of Nikon film scanners.


It may have been almost inevitable, after the 2009 announcement of
Kodachrome's impeding demise.

--
Cordially,
John Turco <>

Marie's Musings <http://fairiesandtails.blogspot.com>