I just hooked it up to my laptop and tried it out to make sure everything works. And it all fires up and scans as it should.
For the record, the Scan Multi does 35mm at 2820dpi and medium format at 1125dpi. This yields 10-11 megapixels for 35mm (slides lose some area due to the mount) and ~6 megapixels for 6x7 medium format. In addition to the bulk slide feeder I have 3 trays for the scanner: 1 holds a strip of 6 negatives, one holds 4 mounted slides and the third is for MF film. There are no 64-bit drivers available so I've been running my laptop on the 32-bit version of Windows 7. I used VueScan for software and that worked great. I'm including the SCSI-FireWire adapter (http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/FR1SX.html) so there's no need for a SCSI card (unless your computer doesn't have a FireSire port) but I'll include my old SCSI card as well (though I have no idea if there are drivers available for it now). After doing some web research I've come to the conclusion that the bulk slide feeder is worth more than the scanner(!) but I think I'll ask $500 (plus shipping) for the whole lot: scanner, bulk feeder, SCSI/FireWire adapter and old SCSI card. ($500 is less than what I paid for the slide bulk feeder alone!) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
