Re: Getting around the firewire problem was Re: filmscanners: Best film scanner, period!!!

["Rob Geraghty" <harper@wordweb.com>]

"Anthony Atkielski" <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> I currently have a continuous external Internet connection on the NIC.

Then you have a security issue, but you don't necessarily need a router.
A four port switch would do it, and that won't cost you thousands - for
that matter there are combined switch/routers which are very cheap as
well.

> The machine I have requires special 128 MB DIMM modules or something.
Last time
> I bought a pair, it cost me around $500, although that was a couple of
years
> ago.  I'd have to buy two pairs to bring the machine up to the maximum
> configurable RAM of 512 MB.

What does that have to do with the new PC I was talking about?  If you can't
upgrade the
RAM in your current machine to handle 4000ppi scans why are we having this
discussion?

> > Why do you need Photoshop and a top quality monitor?
> Because I have to adjust the scans after making them, and I need Photoshop
to do
> that, plus a good monitor to be able to see the results.

No, you don't.

> > AFAIK Vuescan supports the LS4000 so you could
> > dump raw scans from it and port them across to
> > the NT box.
> After I've invested in networking hardware.

See above.  You also ignored my suggestion of CDR which eliminates the need
for
networking.

> > Or you could buy a Polaroid SS4000 which uses
> > SCSI and you wouldn't have a problem - just no ICE...
> I understand the dynamic range is quite limited, though.

I'd be happy to hear of a real comparison if anyone has done it, but you
eliminated the Polaroid scanners by making ICE a requirement.

If you aren't interested in hearing solutions then there's no point in
discussing it.

Rob