Panoscan MARK TWO, Operation Manuals

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OS-X Users
We recommend that you use the camera’s hard drive for saving images. Scanning to RAM under
OS-X is somewhat speed limited and the 125
th
shutter speed may corrupt large scans.
OS-9 Users
We recommend for most situations that you scan to the host computer’s RAM. This allows you to
save the images on the host computer’s hard drive. The alternative is to save images on the
processor module’s hard drive. There is one important limitation with using the processor
module’s hard drive: The Firewire converter is not compatible with the processor module’s hard
drive in OS-9 and you cannot retrieve images from the processor modules hard drive with the
Firewire converter in OS-9. In this case you must use OS-X or a SCSI host adapter to retrieve the
files. You may shoot onto the processor’s hard drive but you will not be able to retrieve the files
using the Firewire converter in OS-9. Note: It is very important to disable the automatic save after
scan if you are shooting to the processor’s hard drive with the Firewire converter or the system
will freeze after the scan.
Each method of saving has advantages and disadvantages. Saving to the host computer’s RAM
allows you to quickly open the image after a scan to inspect it. The downside on scanning to the
host computer’s RAM is that you are limited to the maximum picture size according to the amount
of free RAM on the system. Shooting to the processor’s hard drive avoids the RAM size limitations
but pictures must be transferred to the host computer before it can be opened and examined. In
OS-X, the processor’s hard drive allows shooting at faster shutter speeds without data dropouts.
The possible exceptions might be shooting with long lenses and making huge 1.7 GIG images or
you need the fastest shutter speeds when shooting in the 48 bit color mode or in OS-X. To select
the scan to RAM setting the checkbox is located on the bottom left corner of the main interface
screen next to the “Prescan” button.