Hi JC, Nice shot, my friend has a Nikon Coolpix scanner, and I watched him scan in negs at HR in around 30 Seconds. I'm sure speed will depend on how good your PC is! My son has a 1.6GHz Athlon XP with 500MB SD-RAM. He scans photos way faster than I can, with my Pentium MMX 200 with 64MB Fast Page RAM.
I am pleased with the results with my Vivitar 200mm f3.5 and SPF, especially as the lens came cheap at a garage sale. I also have a Vivitar 300mm f5.5 and Vivitar 400mm f6.3 Telephoto. My problem now is that my eyes are getting bad, so have trouble focussing with manual lenses. I can't focus very easily with my manual focus cameras e.g. SP/SP500/SPF/ME/MES/Program Plus/Nikon Photomic FTn/Ricoh KR-10 and XR-X 2000. My MZ-7 and SF-1 both have built-in diopter adjustment, and F-series AF lenses, which helps a lot. Although the focusing screens on the ME, MES, Program Plus, Nikon Photomic FTn, KR-10 and XR-X 2000 are way better than the Spotmatics, I don't know how my eyesight effects focusing with a split-screens. Does anyone know how the split-screen technique works? James. .
