>>3013427 hereYou know what really rustles my jimmies about film these days? The scanners.
10 years ago, $2k could buy me a crop DSLR with like 10 megapixels that was good to ISO 1600 at most, with an awful grainy screen and small buffer. Nowadays, for the same price I can get a 30+ MP full frame with 4 more stops of DR, I can get pro grade autofocus performance, etc. The progress is palpable. But film scanning? It's EXACTLY THE SAME SHIT as back then. 35mm scanners? Still take four minutes per frame at a good resolution, and those 15 megapixels you can extract from your carefully prepared Velvia aren't impressive anymore. You want medium format? Dedicated 120 scanners still exist, but cost as much as a Pentax K-1 which isn't that far off in resolution even without the HR mode, and take ten minutes per frame. Oh, and you probably want a full-featured version of SilverFast? That'll be 300 more bucks, thank you very much, and you can only use it with one scanner. You want even larger formats? Epson's top of the line flatbed still has the same max density, USB 2.0 and CCFL warmup time as ten years ago. Oh, and it still won't out-resolve drug store Superia. You've got tons of money? Yeah, I can finally sell you something that will beat any digital, check out this $20k Flextight that does anything up to 4x5. It's got blazing fast 60 MB per minute performance - a whopping 1 megabyte per second, boys, you know that shit's professional as FUCK. /rant
