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Michael
Have you compared the colours and resolution from a very good digital camera (say 3.3 meg pixel and higher ) to what you get from 4x5 or 8x10 lab transparency/slide ?
I was told that most ink-jet printers cannot fully print all of a 3.3 mega pixel camera at its best resolution (my DSC-75 Sony gives me 2048x1500 pixel bitmaps at best). I guess the larger size of the Epson P2000 must handle the higher res digital camera outputs.
Nowadays, I find 5.5 megapix digital cameras (like one of the higher end Sonys with the Carl Zeis lenses) are coming within an affordable range. I've also heard there are digital backs that you can attach onto say a Hasselblad or maybe a 4x5, so you get very high res digital (10 mega pixel) with high the end optics of the German lenses etc. I believe these images can be blown up to life size, although it's usually the professional labs who can afford the prices at that level.
The reason I'm blabbing about digital here is because I'm wondering if you get better colour and sharpness in recording a picture in a single scan (that is directly from the real world to an image file as with a digital camera) instead of going first to a transparency, chemical processing, and finally to a scanner. I find a good digital camera gives me excellent colours that seem to be even better than I ever got from film or slide - I always used Kodakchrome 25 ASA slide film. What is your experience in this regard ?
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