Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I purchased a polaroid SS 4000 about a year ago and while i'm happy with the quality of the scans It seems that the scanner doesn't want to scan the entire image and cuts of a few mm's one side. ive trie adjusting the parameters in vuescan but nothing seems to work. i've read poor reviews of the nikon also saying that it has problems focusing.-daniel - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:53 PM Subject: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner > Guys and gals this is a sort of vent thing to the family. > > I have a Polaroid Sprint scan 4000, actually it's the third one I have had > in two years, a brand new one, a replacement while they, Polaroid, tried to > figure out what was wrong with the first one. Then a third replacement, > brand new, well OK they told me it was new..... and at this moment I'm as > open to buying a Nikon Coolscan or other scanner pumping 4000 or higher than > I've ever been. Hell this wreck is going in the garbage with a big sign... > "dangerous to your life it's a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000!" > > This Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 is one great big heap of scrap metal and > glass, without question, an expensive piece of JUNK! :-( Certainly a piece > of gear I'd not recommend anyone buying no matter how well it worked when it > was working! Why? > > Well it was unworking far more than it was working and when one is in the > business of earning their keep with photography and the hardware that goes > with it, cameras, scanners or whatever, it's totally un-acceptable to be > trying to do your work that your life is dedicated to while attempting to do > that with constant failure of equipment. Expensive equipment! > > Surely I can't be the only human on the planet with the grief this company > has caused me with their lousy equipment that works some times and most > times not. > > Yep they were kind enough to replace the first and the second, but what's > the point of having malfunctioning equipment replaced with just another > piece of malfunctioning equipment ? I'm wide open for suggestions as you > may well figure. :-( Or would you really like to hear how I feel? ;-) > > 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