Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll jump in quickly to say that I got a USB 2 PCMIA card for my Powerbook and it transfers data from an external hard drive almost as fast as the same hard drive in firewire mode. So for Macs it's either USB 2 or Firewire as USB 1 is too slow in my opinion. ernie nitka On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 10:16 AM, Clive Moss wrote: > Your review mentioned "I'm using a G4 PowerBook which only has the USB > 1.1 > interface, so scanning is a bit slow (especially on the 8x setting), > but then I'm not in a hurry." > How slow is "a bit" at the normal single scan full res setting? I was > ready > to spring for a Canonscan FS4000, but gave up when I discovered that an > full-res scan of a single frame took about 6 1/2 minutes. > > -- > Clive > http://clive.moss.net > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of >> Martin Howard >> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:16 AM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Holy War--Film Scanners >> >> >> I got the Minolta Dual Scan III and reviewed it for the LUG: >> > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/v24/msg06475.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html