> Are you using fire wire or usb. And if its usb are you sure your > computer is using usb 2. As I am using usb 2 on my pc and I can scan a
> 5400 dpi tranny with ice on and the 2 times scan on in 6 minutes. I am scanning at 16 bit, 4000 dpi with "light infrared clean " ( in vuescan) with 4x scan passing and this takes about 8 minutes running a G4 500MHZ. I am lead to beleive that these scan times are greatly reduced with faster machines, but 6 mins for a 5400dpi scan seems quick to me... Still looking for a good comparison between the Nikon and the new minolta. Anyoe seen one? Andy Dear Andy, I am running a pc machine 2000xp with 1gb of ram at 266mhz. The scanner is runngin through a usb 2 pci card. I am scanning at 8 bit as there seems little gain in 16 bit on this scanner ( allegedly larger dynmic range, duuno how to check this one in comparison to the Nikon) as my destination files are 8bit and the colours are bang on with auto exposure turned on in the minolta software. Don't know if vuescan will be slower or quicker until he release the new version. I have found with my old scanner that negs do take longer. Hope that helps cheers Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
