Re: Prime Film Scanner

**"Christopher P. Lindsey" t*@spamfodder.com**

>    If you are talking about the plastic floppies, then you won't be able
>    to get very much on them. Photos are huge memory hogs. I'd suggest you
>    invest in a CD burner...they are usually less than $100. Then you put
>    a lot more images on a disk than you could ever put on a floppy. A ZIP
>    disk would work, too, but again, the capacity isn't nearly what a CD
>    would be.

Even better, I'd recommend a DVD burner.  You can store 4.7GB of data on
a DVD (about 7x the amount that a CD can hold), which really comes in handy
when working with images.  Considering that my master scans of slides are
25MB each, that means that I can store 188 images on a DVD instead of
26.

If you don't want to invest in a burner but have USB, you could also look
into an external USB hard drive.  A 120GB drive costs about $150.  If you
turn it off when not in use the drive should last a while.  However, you
won't get the same peace of mind as you do with multiple DVD backups.

If you do get a DVD burner, I'd try to get one that does both DVD+RW and
DVD-RW -- that lets you read or write both standards.

Chris

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