Getting some work done on the Quicksilver this evening on the Quicksilver. I'm playing with my new "toy"-a Nikon Coolscan V-and going through some old negatives in the process.
Unfortunately, I'm actually finding myself a bit bottlenecked by the QS and its low RAM ceiling. To work with a 4000x4000 dpi scan(of a 24x36mm negative or slide) Vuescan really feels handicapped with the 1gb of RAM of RAM I've allocated it. Combining 3 standard scan passes+an IR pass takes a lot of worK, and I'm also leaving Photoshop and Lightroom to fight over the other 500mb of RAM. Fortunately the IR clean is "agressive" enough on the Cooolscan that I'm not left with a lot of Photoshop work once I've finished scanning. If I can get a SCSI card working in a G5(to support my other slide scanner that can do some things the Coolscan can't) I'm going to transition all my scanning work over to a dual 2.7. The minimum system requirements for the Nikon software(not Vuescan, which is better than the Nikon software) is a G3 running OS 9 with 64mb of RAM. I'm tempted-in a masochistic sort of way-to take the Bondi iMac I just bought down to 64mb and see how terrible it is on there.
BTW, I really wish that the guy who I got the scanner from could find the slide carrier. The negative auto-feeder is really slick and works great, but most of my photos I care about are on slides. Now that I have this, I'll probably start getting my 35mm unmounted-I'm no stranger to it since no one even mounts medium format anymore. The strip feeder would make handing uncut 35mm transparencies easy and I rarely(i.e. never) project them. I'm just so used to handling mounted 35mm transparencies that it would be a big change for me
All that aside, here it is for now.