[filmscanners] Re: high speed USB vs low speed

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Hi Dale,

Before jumping in and buying a film scanner, please allow us to give you
some advice.  I have owned four different film scanners (two of which
were HP) and have also seen and used others.  Prices have dropped
considerably on newer models of late, so you don't have to mortgage your
home anymore to get a reasonable product.

I'm not suggesting the HP S20 is inappropriate, but it is probably one
of the more poorly designed models, and unless the price is really
"right" others may serve better.

I found the HP S-20 had problems with the red channel in Kodachrome
films which tended to over emphasize reds.  I also found a problem with
color fringing on black and white film scans (it was actually there all
the time, but was very obvious if one scanned a black and white source
as a RGB (it degraded the color images also)).

Also, even high speed USB 1.1 is one of the slower scanner interfaces
today.  USB 2.0 cards are available for most computers and are not very
costly (I've seen them for as little as $15 CAN, or about $10 US).  This
can be MUCH faster than the "fast" v1.1 USB, for instance.

Art

Dale Reed wrote:

> I am surfing on USB and finding lots of info.  So far I am concluding that I
> should go ahead and buy a scanner because my USB 1.1 will probably work OK.
>
> Now to decide on a mid-range, or less, co$t scanner for the purpose of
> digitizing for the Internet(no printing) a few 40 year old Antarctic
> Kodachromes and some black and white snapshots.    Thanks for the help.
> Dale
>
>
>


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