On 4/26/2013 1:05 PM, Michael Black wrote:
The precedence is in the days of "microfilm". Certainly some of the amateur radio and hobby electronic magazines had the occasional article about using a film camera to copy magazines (or parts of books, nobody though in terms of getting rid of books). That was out of the mainstream, but somehow in the digital age scanners made inroads for that sort of thing, leaving cameras generally out of the picture. MIchael
This one is easy. Scanners are cheaper then film and digitized in less steps. Until a few years ago, digital cameras didn't have the resolution to match your average desktop scanner.