SEEING A FUTURE IN SCANNERS

Though cost barriers to digital image capture continue to abate, digital cameras are not yet the standard for image creation. "Some photographic styles simply can't be achieved through digital means," Atash notes, citing certain types of lighting and graininess.

Rogers identifies other limitations: "With digital capture, you can never go back to the original. Color can be corrected or augmented, but other aspects of the original, such as graininess, can't be changed."