Re: filmscanners: I got a Nikon LS-40 on Loan

[EdHamrick]

In a message dated 3/6/2001 6:10:26 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> What advantages does
>  firewire have over SCSI??

Firewire is theoretically faster than SCSI, but no scanner
is so fast that SCSI is the bottleneck.

>  Any idea why Nikon switched to fw, and
>  didn't impliment both?

I suspect that they switched to Firewire because the newer
Macintoshes have Fireware and don't have SCSI.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick