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Subject: Re: [OM] Beating a Dead Horse (Not Animal Rights)
From: Richard Schaetzl <Richard.Schaetzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:48:36 +0200
Dr Peter Gilbert wrote:
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of getting a 35mm film scanner.
...
>   Anyone know if Nikon et al are likely to bring out a Firewire
> Coolscan model anytime soon?

Polaroid, an 4000dpi medium format scanner.

> Seems to me that with SCSI fading away

Still going strong, it will take a long time for firewire to replace
SCSI (but what´s along time in IT industry?).

> and USB not quite up to the
> bandwidth requirements of shuffling Mb of data rapidly,

USB is fast enough, scanning is slow, that´s what ED
Hamrick says, author of the Vuescan scanning software.

Regards

Richard



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