I can't install yet -- the drive door pops open during the mandatory reboot and the process starts back at zero. My only guess is that it has to do with my third party firewire 400 card. I'll try installing with that removed tonight.

Routine negative film has a resolution of about 5000 linear dots per inch. That means that a shot on 35mm film contains about 33.5 megapixels of data. Since the original post talks about medium format film, we have to consider negatives up to 6x9 centimeters (6.25 times the size of a 35mm frame or the sensor in a 'full frame' digital camera). That's about 209 megapixels of data.

There are subtleties here involving the resolution needed to capture individual gains in high contrast regions of film, and you might if you were being extremely conservative cut these numbers in half. That would take you to about 16.75 megapixels for a good 35mm camera, and 105 megapixels for medium format.

Cheers.

I would ebay this thing in a flash.

i could use this

i could actually use this thing

I would not mind one of these at all.

Oops, that's 127Mb TIFF, not 127Gb. The latter would be an even bigger challenge.

Count me among the Quicksilver users. My Dual 1GHz PowerMac just celebrated its seventh anniversary. I have upgraded the RAM, hard drives, optical drive, and networking, all at modest expense. It is getting a bit slow for some of the things I do (ever try to rotate a 127Gb TIFF file in Photoshop on a PowerMac G4?), and I plan to buy a new Mac Pro whenever Apple gets around to releasing Nehalem models. The current Mac will go in the basement, perhaps to be used as a file server.

I think seven years is the longest I've used any computer as my primary machine. My IIcx lasted about six (1989 - 1995).

I am an idiot. This is a Helio phone, not pay-as-you-go. Sigh. I wish somebody would introduce a pay-as-you-go phone with real e-mail service.

I like that it has a keyboard, but will it be fully able to send and receive e-mail? Virgin Mobile only other keyboard phone is greatly constrained and works with only a few providers.