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EPSON F-3200 Film Scanner: Millennium Dome (page 7)

Category: Other

by Sergey Samarin

[ 06/16/2005 | 09:47 AM ]

Testbed and Methods

I will stick to our traditional methodology, omitting some sections peculiar to flatbed scanners. The scanner was attached to this computer:

• Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU
• 1GB DDR SDRAM
• Intel Bonanza D875PBZ mainboard
• ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card
• IBM DeskStar DTLA307015 hard disk drive
• Samsung SyncMaster 757 NF monitor
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1

Speed Characteristics

Speed is a highly important characteristic of any scanner, be it a specialized slide-scanner or a flatbed machine. When designing a new model, each manufacturer seeks for ways to improve the speed qualities of the scanner. In this case, the first thing you notice about the F-3200 is the handy holders for the originals. Thanks to them, and to the batch scan mode, it takes much less time to digitize a series of originals. In fact, the F-3200 can sort out large photo archives much faster than any other scanner. And it will do that with a quite acceptable quality.

So, I measured the time it took to digitize originals of two standard formats in four basic resolutions. I didn’t count in the lamp warm-up time. The results are listed in the following table: