Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/13

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Subject: [Leica] scanning
From: "Rod Fleming" <rodfleming@sol.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:54:16 -0000

Hans-Peter wrote


>And what about SCSI card?

The Nikon LS-1000 does not come with a SCSI card, nor do other Nikon models
I have experience of; don't know about the LS-2000. So you will probably
have to buy one.

An Adaptec AVA-1505 or equivalent is plenty quick enough and reasonably
cheap. The faster cards are fine for SCSI hard drives etc, but the transfer
rate  from the scanner is not fast enough to require the extra performance
from the card.

The AVA-1505 or equivalent is about the cheapest card around, so buy that
and spend the money you saved on RAM.

You can run Photoshop under Win95 on 64 meg- indeed, with sufficient
patience you can run it on 32meg- but in real terms 128meg is about the
practical minimum if you're doing large graphics files. (Win98 will require
a bit more RAM) The machine I use for most of the graphics work is
450m/hertz with 256 Mb RAM and a 20 Gig hard disk- like someone said, those
graphics files eat up the storage. In Photoshop this machine is fine but in
Pagemaker 6.5 it's still a bit slow..................

But then, once upon a time we thought DX4's were fast.........

Cheers


Rod