The first, and lesser important, was ICE. I don't always use it,
but when I need it, there is nothing like it.
For the lesser bankrolled, ICE or the same SW with a different name is
now being bundled with some high quality, but affordable flatbed
scanners. Tom has a key point: the mousetrap is worthless without the
SW cheese.
The biggest reason, though, is the roll film adapter. The Sprintscan
required so much effort to do a 36 exposure roll. The Nikon requires:
Insert
strip. Click.
AMEN .......and I drool over the opportunity to be this lazy. What
Tom does not say: the roll adapter is another ~$400 additional to the
N'kon scanner!!!! My expressed interest in the Reflecta 'for the
rest of us' (aided enormously by Piers) is the seemingly great auto
feeders for film rolls and slides. Believe the Reflecta is worth
monitoring as the product develops.
Yes, CD. I'll go to DVD eventually, but with CD blanks being free
(OfficeMax
this week, both 100 CD-R blanks and slim jewels cases, free with
rebate),
DVD is still too expensive.
Tom
The opportunities for cost effective storage with CDROM are impressive
today. About fifteen packs of 100 from Office Max and you have a
Terabyte on a small shelf! Use an indexing application on your HD to
facilitate quick find.
Bill
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