Well, it's bad form replying to oneself
Not at all! It's actually very decent of you to share what you
learned!
On a personal note, indeed, some of my most intelligent conversations
were when talking to myself! ;o) Like now, for example! ;o)
But seriously, I don't know where that particular rumor started but I
for one consider it bad form when people selfishly pop in to ask a
question and never bother to give anything back, i.e. help others.
, but I just got an answer from Nikon
USA saying that there's currently no x64 drivers for any of their scanners.
Be warned if you want to upgrade your graphic workstations... What a shame,
I'll have to scan with a lousy laptop screen.
That shouldn't really be a problem. Indeed, it may actually be a
blessing in disguise! Namely, you can set up your laptop to scan and
use your desktop for image editing. That way you can do two things at
the same time. It will actually speed up your workflow.
Scanning itself is not very demanding on resources and a garden
variety (read, slightly older) laptop can handle it easily. It's the
image editing which is resource hungry especially when you get into
high resolutions and bit depth. All this with the assumption that you
scan "raw" and do your image editing in a dedicated program
afterwards.
But even if you just want a quick scan without careful post processing
(e.g. for web or print) most laptops can be connected to an external
monitor to better tweak scanner software settings. However, since
scanner software editing is quite limited that may not be worth the
trouble if the goal is only a quick scan where LCD is quite adequate.
Don.
