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:
