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Post #1 by steve30
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateTue, 17 Feb 2009 - 15:20
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/68k-macs-for-photographic-work.16625/
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I was wondering if anyone here had used 68k macs for working with photographs?

I was wondering this because I recently bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual film scanner to scan my photos into the computer as I tend to use film these days, rather than digital. This model, whilst doing a very good job of scanning, is quite old (probably around 1997). I have successfully had it running on my PowerBook 1400 via SCSI and now on my PC with a PCI SCSI card, but it says in the manual that it will run on a Macintosh with a 68040.

As I don't have a 68040 Mac, I can not test this, so i thought I'd see if anyone else has used similar devices on 68k Macs. I'm guessing it would be OK to use if you had a good graphics card with lots of colours and high resolution. When I used it on my PowerBook, the colours and screen size meant it wasn't as good as on the PC, which has a nice 21" Trinitron.

Thanks

Steve

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