I don't own a Nikon, but that number is way off. I've owned four film scanners and even on my original DX 486 I was getting 5 minute to 7 minute scans. Today I get 2-3 minute scans on my Celeron 500 with either SCSI or USB. In fact, the SS4000+ at 4000 dpi gives me a scan in a couple of minutes with the USB connection, and I'm sure faster with Firewire. Processing of the scan depends a lot on processor and memory.
I don't use a Mac, so I'm shooting in the dark here. On my scanners if the DMA wasn't set correctly, the film would shuttle back and forth and could take 30 minutes or more (I know the Nikon doesn't shuttle the film, so it might not be obvious if the scan head is re-scanning or not). Hopefully there are some Nikon/Mac users out there who can be more helpful. Art Gregg Mastorakos wrote: > I just purchased a used LS 2000. I scanned at 2700dpi, 12 bit, multi > sample, with no corrections or Ice and my scan time was about 23 minutes > using Nikon v3.1.2. I have a G4 450 dual and am using a usb converter for > the SCSI connection with the scanner, I'm assuming that is the bottle neck > (could usb be that slow?). What are real world scan times for 35mm slides? > with or without SCSI and or ICE? Any other helpful hits would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Gregg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
