Hi ... Sometimes the scanning times can be a lot slower, at least that's what I read recently. I don't know if the Minolta allows for either SCSI or USB, or just USB, but for now USB is acceptable as I won't have to upgrade my old hand-cranked computer with a SCSI card, which is what I'd have to do with the Nikon LS-1000, and I don't want to put much money into the old beast. IOW, I want to get started on a small budget and see just how much further I'd like to go. Since the Minolta allows for automatic batch scanning, I can be doing something else while the machine is slowly churning through a strip of negatives. Last time I used the Nikon Coolscan 4000, we inserted a strip of six or seven negs and went out for lunch <g>. Sometimes that's much preferred to hanging around the scanning desk.
Cotty wrote: > Be adised that USB as an interface, although new and up-to-date, is much > slower than SCSI at transferring data. I'm not sure how this would effect > scan times, probably not by much? > > Speed freaks need FireWire (IEEE1394). > > HTH > > Cotty > > _______________________________________________________ > Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Check out the UK Macintosh ads > http://www.macads.co.uk > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
