Re: filmscanners: Nikon MF LED light source...

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 00:18:45 -0400  Austin Franklin 
(darkroom@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

> Nikon gurus...  I believe we discussed that the new Nikon MF scanner 
> uses
> LEDs as the light source, but does it use only one CCD row, and switch 
> each
> color on/off and scan each row three times?

AFAIK all Nikon scanners have used a monochrome line CCD.

> Wouldn't that make it quite a bit slower than using a tri-color CCD?

Depends how fast it goes :)


Regards 

Tony Sleep
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