Originally Posted by
ricktas
The other thing to mention is that once you have all this beautifully exposed film and prints, to get the most of it, in a digital format, you need to have a drum scanner, or know someone who has one commercially that they use. Using a home based flat-bed scanner on medium/large format prints/film is really letting the reason for taking them on film, down.
A good drum scanner is tens of thousands of dollars, and even getting them scanned commercially using one costs a nice packet. take the 6x17 format, to get one image scanned on a drum scanner at 3200dpi will set you back somewhere between $20-$30 (minimum)..for ONE photo. Oh and the resultant file from a 6x17 @ 3200dpi is often over 900MB!