I remember the day when I was using LS2000 (SCSI) and 500MHz AMD, the
Nikon SW need no post processing time, the net scanning time is 20
seconds including saving to disk, while Vuescan do the similar on scan
but the post processing time is long (can't remember how long could be
around one minute). That is one of the reason why I don't use Vuescan
for most works except the special negatives like Reala and GPX160
which are having warm bias. Same for today even I have a much faster
PC, only special negative will go to Vuescan, but I rare use these
negative today (GPX160 is no longer exist and I can't find a good lab
for Reala).
C.H.Ling
Moose wrote:
>
> Just timed a couple of scans. Canoscan FS2710, SCSI, Vuescan,
> auto-exposure and focus off. Scan - 18sec. Process - 8 sec. Write 25mb
> compressed Tiff - 12 sec. Total - 38sec. I can't separate out the steps
> with the Canon software, but the total time is almost exactly the same,
> although it doesn't do Tiff, so I end up with a 30Mb bitmap. So in my
> case, Vuescan is the same speed, but offers far more options and
> control, including specific mask filtering for different films. Without
> delving deep, I see no obvious quality difference in the output. I used
> a well exposed, non challenging slide, so I didn't expect any differences..
>
> Computer makes a huge difference. These times are with a 2.8Ghz Pentium,
> 533Mhz Front side bus, 512Mb DDR 333Mhz RAM, 120Gb 7200rpm disk. They
> total about 1/5 the time it took on my old 333Mz Pentium 1 with 96Mb of
> memory. Probably wouldn't see such speedup in the actual scan time on a
> USB 1.0 scanner. SCSI has a lot more bandwidth.
>
> Moose
>
>
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