RE: filmscanners: Fast, decent, low res scans

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

On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 05:34:03 -0700  Shough, Dean (dean.shough@lmco.com) 
wrote:

>  Try the Adaptec 2906 for under $50.  Works great for me with my
> Minolta Scan Dual on both my old PowerBase 180 and on my newer G4/500.  

I don't know about Mac, but the cheapo Adaptec 2904CD SCSI card (sold for 
interfacing CDR's for ~29GBP, so probably $30US) works absolutely fine 
with filmscanners on a PC. The 'CD' bit is marketing nonsense, to try and 
persuade you to spend more. It's a bog standard PCI PnP SCSI2 card with no 
boot ROM. No prosumer filmscanner needs anything faster, nor will they 
scan any quicker.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner 
info & comparisons