Digital BW, The Print

Nick

I also use 6x6 format (and no cropping) but found it necessary to use the
120 neg holder with glass as I used to find parts of the scan were out of
focus when viewing "actual pixels" in Photoshop.  I do not use any of the
additional software (ROC, ICE, etc) when scanning, only teh Coolscan
software and I do not get bad processing times when manipilating the files
after the physical scan has completed.  I scan at 4000 dpi and 14 bit for
b&W as well as colour.  I only have 0.75gig memory but response times are
not bad after scanning say 6 images before I save them via photoshop.  The
virtual disk is several gigs by then and this is what slows response time as
photoshop is paging the virtual disk.  If you have more than one hard
drive - it does reduce processing time to have the virtual disk and the
photoshop image on separate drives.

Best of Luck

Richard

www.richardkingphoto.com