Re: Incorporating

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I have a new slide scanner bought Labor Day weekend -- not a bad machine -- 
does four at a time, slides and film only. It's from Konica Minolta, the
DiMage Scan Dual IV, using a USB port. It could be faster but it does a good
job. It focuses on each slide individually. It is robotic and makes noise as
it pushes the tray in and out. I had to buy it in a hurry after my old HP
scanner from 1997 broke down. I set it up and started using it immediately,
without help-- a very good sign!

I almost didn't buy it because the Micro Center salesman would not take it
out of the box and show it to me. But it was the only usable option I could
find, off the shelf.

I scanned a slide at the maximum resolution this machine provides and it
came out as a 33,578 KB tif file. Mostly I am scanning the slides to come
out at about 14,000 KB each, tif files.

A lot of low-end scanners are for home use and do not give high res results.
The low end ones started at about $150, where I looked, but this one was
about $450.

What else is out there?

Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

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> Until recently I used a Canoscan for scanning my slides, but I'm now in
> the market for a new scanner (and about to put the Canoscan on ebay!).
> The Canoscan works perfectly well, but the latest Mac OS isn't
> compatible with scsi card peripherals so...   Therefore, I'd also be
> interested in hearing if people have scanner recommendations.  I don't
> need the best and most expensive but want something good enough to use
> professionally.
>
> Ellen Zachos
>

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