RE: filmscanners: What is 4,000 scanner quality like in practice.

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

With the LS4000 this *might* be achievable - that scanner is faster than the 
Polaroid (by a whole bunch) and you have ICE to at least help deal with the 
dust.  Maybe the bulk slide feeder would help too.  I'd still bet that 6 slides 
per hour would be the limit, especially if you're hand-correcting colour on 
each of them.  Of course, they'd both still be faster than an Imacon where you 
have to demount the slides before scanning.  High-speed production isn't the 
strong suit of a desktop scanner.

Paul Chefurka

-----Original Message-----
From: TonySleep@halftone.co.uk [mailto:TonySleep@halftone.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:18 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: What is 4,000 scanner quality like in
practice.


On Wed, 23 May 2001 17:51:42 EDT   (TREVITHO@aol.com) wrote:

> If I got a 4000 desktop scanner of my own it would need to produce 
> about ten fully finished scans per hour to be worth considering. Is 
> this possible considering the amount of time that dust busting might 
> take?

IME with the Polaroid 4000, absolutely not. I achieve 1/hr - 4/hr, 
depending mostly on the amount of time needed to spot out dust.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner 
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