you'll be amazed how long it takes to watch the printer print and image and then you realized the monitor wasn't calibrated to the printer.....and then you'll run out of photo black and be shocked at how expensive it is to replace all the different types of gray ink let alone magenta, cyan and yellow.
You'll also waste even more time in post processing as you take 100% crops to spot heal all the imperfections. You'll wish your computer was faster, you'll love the expense of paying for photoshop.
oh you're in for a real treat........Just thought I might try to keep you on the dark side🙂
I see it like this:
how much do you actually shoot?
If you're like me then maybe 30-40 rolls a year of 35mm, about half color and half B+W.
I only print the good ones, which isn't very many, scan the rest that are good, and archive the rest of the negatives.
B+W is cheap, bulk load, developing 2 rolls takes about a half hour.
The plustek 7200i was just shy of $200 and works fast with my 4 year old laptop.
Making chemical prints takes next to no time really. Enlarge, focus, test strip. 2mins later you have an exposure time. 4 mins. later you've got a print.
Line up a couple of enlargers (they're cheap too) and you'll have plenty of nice prints in under 20mins.
Then again, you gotta like smelling like fixer, and old photo-flo smells like s@#*!
You know what, I think I'll quit with you since during the time it took me to write this post, I could have downloaded an entire days worth of shooting from the SD card port and already be drooling at the pictures on the screen!
