Image Most of the photographs were taken with a pair of Nikon F3HP cameras and a variety of Nikkor wide-angles. Richard Risemberg took quite a few photographs of Los Angeles for me, using an Olympus digital camera, with quite satisfactory technical results. Others also contributed images taken with both silver and digital cameras. I found Kodak Ektachrome 200 to be the most suitable film for this work, although it is always troublesome with high-contrast images. Unfortunately, color negative films have such high base densities that conventional scanning techniques are unable to retrieve all of the highlight detail that the film is capable of capturing.
Drum scans can retrieve practically anything that is on film, but the cost is high.
This is quite a good system and reasonably inexpensive. The quality of the result is highly dependent on the skill of the operator - this is not a good place to try to save money. The image resolution is quite high and sufficient for most purposes. The PhotoCD images were imported directly into Photoshop. Virtually all images will need some form of retouching, if only to remove dust.