Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - this sounds bad. When I had the SS 4000 I would get this occasionally but not like your describe. This is made more depressing by virtue of this repeatedly happening on replacement units. May she RIP --- Hello new scanner is all I can advise. ernie At 07:00 PM 3/31/03 -0800, you wrote: >Ernest Nitka asked: >>>> Ted - what was the problem with your SS 4000/<<< > >Hi Ernie, >Well it stops in-between the, " to be scanned number selected and the next >frame," this is an almost constant problem. It scans the wrong negative >selected.... I want Number 2 it scans #3 or a blank space. > >I shut the scanner down, the computer down and restart everything including >Photoshop and the same thing will occur three, four times in a row, then the >fifth time it'll work OK. > >Now this problem isn't just with this new machine replacement, it happened >with two other replacement machines, a new first purchase, a replacement >while Polaroid tried to figure out what was happening, now the "new >re-placement for the new purchased" machine. Only right now this one is the >worst of the three. > >For every neg. I require scanning, I have to start the computer, Photoshop >and the Polaroid soft ware and scanner to maybe get one neg. scanned. And >with about 150 to do at the moment, I'm sure you can appreciate my utter >frustration with this Mickey mouse piece of gear. > >Surely there's a scanner that I can buy, use it for a few years and it'll go >without any screw-ups! Sure I realize there's always the human factor in any >man made machine, but really ? Three scanners in a row having the same >problem? > >Look, I'm wide open to maybe it's me!!!!!! Maybe I'm doing something wrong, >however when I do get it working OK I get excellent scans of very high >quality. It's just the damn inconsistency of operation that's killing me! >:-( > >If anyone has any suggestions please send them along, as at the moment this >situation is driving me to drink and buying another manufacturers scanner! > >ted > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html