Picasa and Irfanview are two totally different animals. I don't do any of what you listed in Picasa. It is pretty much a pain free way to catalogue all my images. I am a digital artist, and I have gigs and gigs of image files. Nothing has come close to being as fast and easy to use to CATALOGUE these files. Now, if I want to do rotations, or change file formats, or any of that I'll open up photoshop. But if i want to breeze through my collection, that is neatly sorted by keywords and categories, nothing can beat this. It is so much faster than XnView (which I absolutely luff for batch processing) or Irfanview on my system.
I work in aa photo lab that targets high in pro-sumers and pros. If you are anything like these folks, I can't imagine you're expecting to get a high quality scan off of that scanner. It just isn't physically possibly UNLESS you are scanning medium or large format transparencies. And even then it is hit and miss. What kind of work are you doing? It obviously can't be that "pro" if you are willing to settle for a flatbed scan.
I am in the middle of a huge scanning job at the moment, around 20,000 slides, and we are using a Nikon Cool Scan 4000ED with the bulk slide attachment (which is a gigantic piece of shit btw, it jams more often than a public toilet). I find it somewhat amusing that people suggest using Linux with this scanner. Thats like owning a 6 gear Corvette but only driving around in 4th gear. Digital ROC, ICE, and GEM are the main points of owning this scanner. They can take a shitty, damamged negative or slide and make it into a flawless scan if you know how to use it correctly. It doesn't make sense to spend $2,000+ on this scanner and NOT use those options. You are much better off getting a Dimage or other scanner that costs less and doesn't have these bells and whistles.
I am what you would call math challenged. I got to right around algebra and lost it when we got to pre-calc. I've read the wikipedia on RPN, but why exactly would you use this? It seems like you are more likely to make a mistake (but again, the most math I do in a day is to add up how many cats I have or something). Am I missing the boat on something?
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Picasa and Irfanview are two totally different animals. I don't do any of what you listed in Picasa. It is pretty much a pain free way to catalogue all my images. I am a digital artist, and I have gigs and gigs of image files. Nothing has come close to being as fast and easy to use to CATALOGUE these files. Now, if I want to do rotations, or change file formats, or any of that I'll open up photoshop. But if i want to breeze through my collection, that is neatly sorted by keywords and categories, nothing can beat this. It is so much faster than XnView (which I absolutely luff for batch processing) or Irfanview on my system.
I work in aa photo lab that targets high in pro-sumers and pros. If you are anything like these folks, I can't imagine you're expecting to get a high quality scan off of that scanner. It just isn't physically possibly UNLESS you are scanning medium or large format transparencies. And even then it is hit and miss. What kind of work are you doing? It obviously can't be that "pro" if you are willing to settle for a flatbed scan. I am in the middle of a huge scanning job at the moment, around 20,000 slides, and we are using a Nikon Cool Scan 4000ED with the bulk slide attachment (which is a gigantic piece of shit btw, it jams more often than a public toilet). I find it somewhat amusing that people suggest using Linux with this scanner. Thats like owning a 6 gear Corvette but only driving around in 4th gear. Digital ROC, ICE, and GEM are the main points of owning this scanner. They can take a shitty, damamged negative or slide and make it into a flawless scan if you know how to use it correctly. It doesn't make sense to spend $2,000+ on this scanner and NOT use those options. You are much better off getting a Dimage or other scanner that costs less and doesn't have these bells and whistles.
i have read more interesting things in those ads they have in the stalls in the restrooms at the mall.
I am what you would call math challenged. I got to right around algebra and lost it when we got to pre-calc. I've read the wikipedia on RPN, but why exactly would you use this? It seems like you are more likely to make a mistake (but again, the most math I do in a day is to add up how many cats I have or something). Am I missing the boat on something?