On Dec 10, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote:
> High resolution scans take a looong time. No big surprise, I suppose. > The IEEE 1394 interface is pointless, from a speed standpoint: The > bottleneck as far as scanning speed is concerned is *not* the transfer > of data from the scanner to the computer! (I believe they went with > plain old USB2 for the follow-up model, the LS 9000.) I found the same with my Minolta Multi Pro. I suspect it offloads a lot of processing to the computer. I always scan with oversampling so that's going to take the lion's share of the scan time. > The IR dust & scratch removal is awesome. I keep it switched on but at > its minimum setting and it works brilliantly. I can't imagine the time > it would take to manually touch up dust spots on a 97MP scan. It used to take me about an hour to touch-up a photo that contained a lot of sky. My scanner does support dust & scratch removal but I bought an accessory called the Scanhancer which helps to smooth grain at the expense of not being able to use the dust/scratch removal (it's basically a plastic diffuser). It also made the scanning a bit slower as I had to increase the exposure setting. A few years back I went through and scanned all the rest of my 6x7 slides thinking I'd get around to processing them eventually. Still have the raw files :) I really should scan my 35mm stuff but just don't have the time right now. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
