Evan and others,
As promised, I had a look at my software and it is indeed 3.5.0. Here is a screen capture that shows the identity crisis it seems to be having. Notice "Eversmart Scan" on the dock icon and "oXYgen Scan" on the title bar. PM me if you need more info.
I'll continue to beat this horse and agree again with Sandy. While I'd like to have a 16 Bit file and make all corrections in Photoshop, the 8 bit files are not limiting in any way other than a bit of convenience. You just have to do the large corrections(if any) in the Eversmart software. I rarely have to do anything more than a little bit of levels and curves and final color correction in Photoshop. I am laughably far from a pro, so others experiences may vary, but I have never seen banding in a print from these scans; Slides, color neg, or B&W.
Also like Sandy, my G4 has 1.5GB of ram and I've never noticed a problem. I don't think it has to load the whole file in memory. If you watch the file which it creates the moment you hit "scan", it appears it saves the data as it goes (i.e. The file continues to get bigger until it finishes). While I have no real evidence, and have never had an issue or need to investigate, I'd imagine the scanner has the memory it needs and just streams the file to disk. Matter of fact, I regularly open the files to check them while the scanner is scanning another file and have never heard the disk thrashing. Slow to open, yes, but it's only 800mhz after all.
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