Message-Id: <mailto:199410061833.NAA24826@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 11:28:33 -0800 From: Dirk-Uwe Bartsch PhD <mailto:bartsch@EYECENTER.UCSD.EDU> Subject: Film Recorder To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Reply to: Film Recorder
In respect to the following note:
>Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 06:59:04 -0700
>From: Museum Informatics Project <mailto:mip-arch@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU>
>Subject: Film Recorders, where are they?
>There are lots of regularly-appearing reviews/discussion about slide
>scanners in recent years. There seems to be very little (almost none?)
>discussion/review of digital Film Recorders.
We have a LaserGraphics Personal Film Recorder. We just love it. We run about 3
rolls of film per week, before meetings sometimes 3 rolls a night. The slides
come out with a great resolution (4k lines) and I believe 33 bits of color,
which is plenty for our purposes. The great advantage is the high speed, it
takes only 2 minutes to make a slide, that, we found, is a very important
feature. Usually, we have somebody desperately needing slides ASAP, and that
includes me, too. If you have 36 slides and need to wait 5 minutes for each
slide, you can wait three hours or just one hour with the personal LFR. The
price was okay (around $7k, if I recall correctly). We had it for about 1 1/2
years, no problems (knock on wood). It doesn't have a bulk loader, but 36 in a
roll is plenty for us.
Overall I can recommend the product to anybody if you can live without a bulk
loader, exactly as it says, PERSONAL laser film recorder (why they put laser in
the name is a mystery to me). The company offers bigger LFRs (around 17k, I
believe) that accept bulk loaders.
Dirk-Uwe Bartsch, Ph.D.
UCSD Shiley Eye Center
mailto:dbartsch@ucsd.edu
(no financial interest in film recorders, their manufacturers or distributors)