Interestingly, that's the limiting factor of film scanning too. 120MB TIFF
files from the 4000dpi scanners. I upgraded the I/O (Raid 0 array) and
Photoshop just flies!
Tom
> I think more than anything, the IO write time will be the Achilles Hill of
> digital cameras. Faster CPUs will not help. Only faster IO will. Lets say
> you need 10 Megapixels to achieve best you can do comparing to 35mm (some
> say you need 20 megapixels, but regardless). 3 bytes per pixel, and you
are
> talking about 30 megabytes. 6 bytes per pixels (16 bits color), and you
are
> talking about 60 megabytes.
>
> That's a lot of data to shove through...
>
> >...
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