I'm a Shuttle addict. The Shuttle SN-45G with two scanners piled on top is an Athlon 2800+ 2Gb ram, SCSI and Firewire running Win2K (though I am only running the LS-1000 on it). It has to be the most responsive computer I have ever used - almost instant reactions to mouse clicks. The 5400 dpi LS-1000 scans use to take about 60-70 each on my old dual cpu computer (dual slot 1 coppermine core 750 mhz intel) - now 10-15 seconds with this hardware using Silver-Fast (great software).
NightOwl Cat wrote:
WOW, an old Shuttle! I always meant to get one back in the day. I probably could have sent you a full blown Win2k setup...
James Markus wrote:
A little over three weeks ago I started to prepare to digitize thousands of slides. I built four period computers from scratch to run three vintage (circa 1996-2000) Nikon film scanners - primarily to use the Nikon SF-200 auto slide feeder. I just don't have the time to manually digitize so many slides, and this allows batches of 50 at a time. I got thrown back in the Windows 95, 98se, 2K, XP, era plus Win 10. Usually dual booting into linux for safe online retrieval of needed files. I found out what interface (SCSI or Firewire), operating system, hardware, plus which software combinations worked best. It won't surprise anyone here that Nikon makes great film scanners. So, here are a couple setups I shoe-horned into my less cluttered darkroom.
shot with the IR converted 5DmkII and the Nikkor 24mm f2.8 ais at iso 2500
So happy to get the SCSI Nakamichi CD changer, and Panasonic phase change dual working again in Win10 after 20+ years
Apr 19, 2024 at 09:34 AM
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