I have the Scan Dual II myself and happen to use PaintShop Pro V7. One thing you should strongly consider is using Hamrick's Vuescan software (www.hamrick.com) to scan with. It does a much better job than the Minolta software. It also supports batch scanning better - less attending by the operator. It can also autonumber in some fashion for file naming.
I used to scan at lower resolutions, but in the past while, I just scan at max and save as jpg 5% compression. If you use PaintShop's proprietary format, you are limiting yourself to just the Paintshop tool. For instance, I use Ulead's Photo Explorer to quickly look at images on cd. It doesn't recognize proprietary stuff. Many other tools you might use won't either. Then you would be stuck with converting back and forth. HTH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- I have seen very good reviews of the Scan Dual II, and as I have many thousands of slides which I would like to put onto CD, I'm tempted. How long does it take to scan 4 slides (the one damn thing I should have checked)? The flatbed scanner I have been given is very slow, I just want to have some idea whether it is a few minutes or go and do something else while it scans it! Apologies if this has already been stated ;-) Malcolm - 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 .
