Well, it's about 50 cents per gig and 126GB was an artificial hardware
limit, not Windows, and is not a limitation of any recent machine. It's
fairly easy to overcome in older machines too.
As for indexing, well, I don't have a good system yet. The negs I keep
rolled up and in canisters, which probably isn't good either.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Keller" <jrk_om@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OM]SS4000 vs. Nikon, was Minolta 5400
> Tom or others?
>
> Having never left a roll uncut ... how do you store whole rolls of film?
> What software do you use for keeping track of the individual images?
> IRRC a magical number for windoze is 120G, any problems with larger
> drives?
>
> At $1/G, 500G is still $500 ... ouch, plus the time to scan ... bigger
> ouch. I opted for PrintFile plastic sheets for archiving mounted slides
> ... thus roll film feeder didn't seem important. I've got mixed feelings
> about ICE. If I don't leave the slides uncovered for any length of time
> dust isn't much of a problem. When I have dusty slides I normally try to
> brush/blow off almost all of it leaving almost nothing for ICE to
> correct. It can be very time consuming to get a slide nearly dust free
> 8^( Yes ICE on the Min*lta works quite well but I prefer to avoid it
> since I'm only scanning those that look promising to print at greater
> than 8x10.
>
> Gotta go to officemax .... thanks,
> -jeff
> I'm not planning on storing scans on 1500 CDs though and I don't think
> anyone that has a film scanner believes flat bed scanners to be nearly
> as good (that's why they got the film scanner.)
>
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