Yes, they should. But since I have been using a flatbed
scanner for about six years now, I figured I had the skill set
to fumble through it. I did.
I was able to get a gorgeous scan about five tries in, even
found that fancy new technology of Nikon's. Something to with
ICE. It worked wonderfully. Very very impressed. Slides
need it apparently, dusty little buggers.
What stumped me was when I scanned that same slide at 2650 dpi
and attempted to make a 5 x 7 size image suitable for
printing. (Within about 30 minutes of using the filmscanner it
was clear that my old PIII 600 with ultra-wide scsi wasn't
going to be enough). Well, Win98 said I didn't have enough
memory to make a 5 x 7 image. I was actually shocked and did
some digging around in my memory to see if any unnecessary
programs were loaded. No.
I have 256mb of ram and 1.6 gigs free on my swap file drive
(c:).
So off to scantips I went. Although I was tired and it was
late friday, so I didn't get very far.
I guess I should knock it back down to 1350 or 1200, that
seems to give me a 4 x 6 print and 5 x 7 okay.
Guy
p.s. I use an old Nikon F2a and Nikkor lenses to shoot with.
TS> This is true of all filmscanners, and should be written in large letters
TS> on the box. It would save a lot of disappointment and negative comments
TS> about products. Unfortunately the more flawed the scanner (=cheaper,
TS> usually), the more those new skills are needed.
