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Originally Posted by netwolf
How easy is it to develop the film yourself and use a negative scanner to grab a very high dpi scan of the image. Given the price drop in film cameras especially the second hand bargains that are coming up this seems to make sense.
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Film scanners are relatively expensive (or at least last I looked at them), but you are right that the camera's are cheap. In my 'last days of film' I was just getting them developed and scanned by the lab, I believe that was most cost effective. Probably not an option in many places now.
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Originally Posted by netwolf
However one aspect of film photography is that you needed a very good mount with low PE to do the job right. With digital one can do lots of smaller exposures and add them together.
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Actually, I disagree. If you are doing 5 minute exposures with digital, you probably have at least half to 2/3 of your PE cycle included in that anyway. Once you go that far, you just have to make the same corrections over and over again. I never had a problem with manually guiding film exposures up to an hour (I had failures, but it was OK). I'd argue that digital requires a higher level of precision with the small pixel size. With either you can autoguide no problem, in the same way as you would for digital for film.
Roger.