[filmscanners] RE: Polaroid SS4000 - Viewscan

["John Rossi" <cjrossi1942@attbi.com>]

Tom . . . .. I am running 7.5.59 on ME.  The preview time sounds about right
but I will check it the next time I scan a negative. It sounds like I am
getting similar results, which tends to answer my question: Does Viewscan
normally take this much time to prescan.  I would like to know why there is
a difference between VS and Insite.  Perhaps the prescan time in VS can be
reduced. Thanks,  John

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Thomas Maugham
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:47 AM
To: cjrossi1942@attbi.com
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Polaroid SS4000 - Viewscan

I just timed mine using a slide in position one and these are my results.  I
am using version 7.5.57 with an SS4000 (SCSI) on a PC with W98SE.

Preview time: 1 minute 13 seconds
Scan time: 3 minutes - This does not include the time to write the image to
the disk as that is a function of your PC and hard drive, not VueScan or the
scanner.

My VueScan settings are: Preview Resolution - Auto, Scan Resolution - 4000
dpi, Auto Focus - Always.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Tom Maugham

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of HMSDOC@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:11 AM
To: TMaugham@yahoo.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Polaroid SS4000 - Viewscan


In a message dated 11/12/2002 11:13:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cjrossi1942@attbi.com writes:
I have noticed that when using the SS4000+ with VueScan (USB connection as
the Firewire consistently crashes VueScan), that before the actual scan
there
is about 1 minute of waiting along with I think one or two movements of the
slide carrier.  The bottom of the VueScan window intermittently says "Busy"
with a % next to it.  I believe it is calibrating the scanner at this time
(it takes longer than the Polaroid software calibration).  On many versions
ago you could do a calibration (don't know about the Polaroid as I was usng
a
Canon at the time) with the calibration pull down and it was stored...but
when I try that now with the SS4000+ it doesn't do anything so I think the
delay at the start is calibration.  Not sure if this is what you are
experiencing or not.

Howard






<< Thanks Tom . . . .  I have cleaned the scanner using the supplied brush.
 This seemed to have eliminated some banding issues that started to show up
 in the scans.
 I am not sure the "indexing" time is a problem it just seems to take . . .
 well, time.  If I use Polaroid Insight there does not seem to be any
hunting
 for the frame.  The time to the start of the scan is quicker with insight.
 John
  >>

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