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I have browsed your article about polaroid 4000 does not initialize
anymore. My scanner has the same problem. The problem is the noisy sound
when i turn scanner on. Obviously, it comes from rail. But the rail gear
wheel keep running to reject film holder even no film carrier inside. And
the
From: filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk [filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On
Behalf Of Bob Geoghegan [bob...@dgiinc.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:02 PM
To: Paul Patton
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: polaroid dust and scratch program
Hi Paul,
Here's a link to the archived download page:
http://www.freidesignberlin.de/home.php
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As I am sure you know Polaroid has gone through several owners in the
last few years.
I don't see an Australian contact. The closest seems to be Japan and
China.
I have emailed their customer support in the US to ask about access to
these parts, and will see what they have to say, if anything.
Thanks for all the answers to my question, but I have decided not to buy
this particular scanner. The seller wants more money for it than I am
willing to pay.
It was good to see the list wake up and spring into action -- my thanks
to the participants, and to Tony Sleep for keeping the list going.
On 28/09/2009 Karen and John Hinkey wrote:
I managed to get my old SS4000 to work for a while and compared scans
of
the same slide between the SS4000 and 5000 ED and found that when
using
Vuescan the results were very similar regarding sharpness, although
the
raw image came out noticeably
Well, I just bought a used 5000 ED to scan a good part of my slides (I'm
all digital now) as my SS4000 has seen its last days.
Any tips on getting the sharpest scans possible from it?
I have VueScan, so that's an option.
Thanks - John
--
John Karen Hinkey
hin...@seanet.com
On 19/09/2009 Tony Sleep wrote:
http://tonysleep.co.uk/polaroid-sprintscan-4000-diy-repairs
Now with a few small additions and edits for clarity.
NB this is not currently indexed from my site menus as, like a bunch of
similarly hidden motorcycle features it is really off-topic for the site,
so
http://tonysleep.co.uk/polaroid-sprintscan-4000-diy-repairs
I hope it helps :)
--
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk
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It feels really nostalgic coming back to the list after 8 years or so. I am
glad it is still there! (Thanks Tony!)
Last week I wanted to test if the old PCI application still works with XP
SP3 (my old vuescan version certainly did not like SP3, and Ed has changed
the licencing scheme and
Regarding vuescan, if you bought it in the era when there was only one version
of the program, you DO have what is now the pro version and will get free
updates. Ed, unlike me, keeps great paperwork. He should have you purchase
record.
That works! I didn't even notice the 4 screws securing the top of the carriage
as they were black--not the same silver color as the other screws.
The top half of my mirror was dusty. The lens looks fine. I think my scans are
better now.
Thanks.
Tony Sleep tonysl...@halftone.co.uk
On 20/07/2009 Tony Sleep wrote:
There is a 3rd screw down a hole
(top rhs of the cover, as shown), and the 4th retains the cover over
the
stepper mechanism - the slim rectangular box protuberance that your
LH
sketched blue line crosses. Essentially, there is a screw in each of
the 4
James wrote this last month. At the moment, I have my SS4000 apart and I have
removed 10 (not 6) self-tappers but see no way to remove the carriage. I do
have the lamp off, however.
Any suggestions? Is there a site with some images of this process? I spent some
time with google but was not
On 19/07/2009 sn...@cox.net wrote:
James wrote this last month. At the moment, I have my SS4000 apart
and I have removed 10 (not 6) self-tappers but see no way to remove
the carriage. I do have the lamp off, however.
It was me who wrote the report originally. I removed only the lamp carrier
(2
Tony,
Thanks for the details. If you ever do this again, how about a few digital
images along the way :).
After I removed the lamp, I tried to remove the film carrier. With the scanner
oriented in the same fashion as the background shot on the website you quote
below, I removed the two sheet
To the best of my knowledge, Polaroid, or their consigns still offer
service and parts for the Sprintscan 4000 scanners. Since the product
was made for Polaroid by Microtek, they may also have service and parts
available.
I would find $50 a very low price for a properly working SS scanner.
Art
Minolta was bought by Konica, and is now called Konica-Minolta. Have
you contacted them to see if they offer such service or know who does?
Art
pe...@galley.ie wrote:
Didn't get any response before - anybody have any ideas?
-Original Message-
From: filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk
Good point, I'll follow that up.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:13 AM
To: pe...@galley.ie
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: FW: Who repairs Minolta scanners
Arthur Entlich wrote:
Minolta was bought by Konica, and is now called Konica-Minolta. Have
you contacted them to see if they offer such service or know who does?
Konica-Minolta, the combined version went through bankruptcy too
a few years ago, that's when Sony got hold of the Minolta camera
Paul Patton wrote:
I thought the Polaroid Sprintscan was still highly regarded as a filmscanner.
.
All Polaroid scanners have been orphans for quite some time
now, I'm sure that affects price.
Mike K.
P.S. - I've still a sprintscan 35 which is undoubtedly worth less
than the postage to
On 16/07/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote:
The Polaroid is in worse shape for resale u
nless Microtek is servicing them.
As far as I know Polaroid still offer service support
http://www.polaroid.com/service/index.jsp
--
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk
On 16/07/2009 Paul Patton wrote:
I thought the Polaroid Sprintscan was still highly regarded as a
filmscanner. Is it really only worth $50.00 or is my informant wrong?
See items 160348227611 160345106356 - both sold at $200 BIN.
--
Regards
Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk
Didn't get any response before - anybody have any ideas?
-Original Message-
From: filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of pe...@galley.ie
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:36 PM
To: pe...@galley.ie
Subject: [filmscanners] Who repairs
The recent posts about selling a Sprintscan reminded me to post this question
again:
I need to use my Sprintscan 4000 on a 2008 Mac Pro without a SCSI adapter card.
I have seen SCSI-to-USB cables such as this:
Addlogix USB-XFormer 2.0 USB 2.0 to Ultra SCSI/Adapter (usb2-uscsi) Storage
I recently tried to sell a used Polaroid SprintScan 4000 film scanner using an
eBay sales service. They said they couldn't sell it for me because they don't
sell things worth less than $100 and they found a SprintScan 4000 on sale on
ebay for $50.00. I thought the Polaroid Sprintscan was
You need to be sure you are looking at completed sales.
I have no idea what any of my film scanners are worth,
but given the likelihood of a mechanical issue, I wouldn'
t risk my reputation to sell a film scanner unless it has
had a factory refurb. Especially true for old CCFT based
scanners.
Google Craigslist Polaroid SprintScan 4000 - you will find a few 4000
scanners offered for sale.
Paul Patton wrote:
I recently tried to sell a used Polaroid SprintScan 4000 film scanner using
an eBay sales service. They said they couldn't sell it for me because they
don't sell things worth
So, after this discussion of drivers, etc., does anyone have any experience
in actually using this scanner. I need to replace my ScanDual III so I can
scan 40 or so rolls of old 35mm bw negatives. Will this scanner scan 35-mm
negs to give results similar to a filmscanner? I don't have any
I would check again on the 64-bit twain driver. Epson may have developed a
proprietary driver for the scanner but I sort of doubt it was a twain driver
since there were never any official standards set for the 64 bit twain
driver by the twain working group consortium even though they talked about
Silverfast provides a 64-bit installer for the V500 (and presumably related
Epson
scanners). It's WIA and it installs both a standalone client and a plug-in for
Photoshop.
Silverfast also provides an optional TWAIN version but there's no reason to
install it
that I can see.
In the flier
On 14-Jun-09 09:02, Preston Earle wrote:
So, after this discussion of drivers, etc., does anyone have any experience
in actually using this scanner. I need to replace my ScanDual III so I can
scan 40 or so rolls of old 35mm bw negatives. Will this scanner scan 35-mm
negs to give results
Laurie,
I could be wrong calling the Epson driver a 64-bit twain driver. If
memory serves me, Epson referred to it as a 64-bit driver. I did not
ask for it as I was, and still am, on 32-bit machines - mainly because
of the Sprintscan 120.
Jim
LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
I would check again on the
caryeno...@enochsvision.com,
I apologize for using your post as a vehicle for posting a correction to one
of my earlier posts where I referred to WMA drivers when I should have
referred to WIA drivers. I am sorry if my error in reference has caused any
confusion or trouble.
-Original
Jim,
Sort of a natural mistake since most people associate all scanner drivers as
twain drivers, which most were when all scanners were 32 bit. Epson
probably did refer to the driver as a 64-bit driver without bothering to
distinguish between twain based drivers and WIA based drivers, which
No problems at all. I learn something every time I post on this group,
Laurie. Thanks to everyone!
Jim
LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
caryeno...@enochsvision.com,
I apologize for using your post as a vehicle for posting a correction to one
of my earlier posts where I referred to WMA drivers when I
On 14-Jun-09 17:29:42, LAURIE SOLOMON (lau...@advancenet.net) wrote:
caryeno...@enochsvision.com,
I apologize for using your post as a vehicle for posting a correction to
one
of my earlier posts where I referred to WMA drivers when I should have
referred to WIA drivers. I am sorry if my
On 14-Jun-09 17:41:19, LAURIE SOLOMON (lau...@advancenet.net) wrote:
Jim,
Sort of a natural mistake since most people associate all scanner drivers
as
twain drivers, which most were when all scanners were 32 bit. Epson
probably did refer to the driver as a 64-bit driver without bothering
to
On 14/06/2009 Preston Earle wrote:
I need to replace my ScanDual III so I can
scan 40 or so rolls of old 35mm bw negatives. Will this scanner scan
35-mm
negs to give results similar to a filmscanner?
According to at least one review I read, IIRC the answer was a qualified
'yes' for the
From: Tony Sleep tonysl...@halftone.co.uk
On 14/06/2009 Preston Earle wrote:
I need to replace my ScanDual III so I can
scan 40 or so rolls of old 35mm bw negatives. Will this scanner scan
35-mm
negs to give results similar to a filmscanner?
According to at least one review I read, IIRC the
On 13/06/2009 James L. Sims wrote:
With the support for my Polaroid Sprintscan 120 now unavailable, I am
looking for a replacement.
Vuescan should resolve antique s/w issues on Windows, though SCSI support
may become more awkward I believe ASPI drivers are available for Vista. On
Mac I don't
Ed Hamrick.would know the OS/software issues.
There i
s something funny about scsi and aspi. For X64, I had to
search the net and load some 3rd party ASPI stuff to run
my usb scanner. Yes, I know this doesn't make sense, but
I guess scsi is than a physical interface.
That pc is
in pieces at
This is very encouraging, Tony. I have had my ancient SS4000 under a
cover for several years as well, and I'm sure it could use a similar
cleaning. I may give it a try. I take it that re-assembly was not a
great problem?
Cheers,
Roger Smith
On 13-Jun-09, at 12:48 PM, Tony Sleep wrote:
On
SCSI is the hardware connection; there are no twain drivers for 64 bit OS.
You need the ASPI layer with SCSI for any Windows OS (32 or 64 bit) to
recognize the scanner as a hardware device ( I do not know about USB
connected scanners); but this is different from getting the scanner to work
which
I didn't have to do anything to get my new Epson V500 scanner to work in
Vista-x64. I used
the installation CD and then immediately installed the 64-bit updates that I
downloaded
from the Epson support pages. Then I turned the scanner on. Windows made the
low beep that
it does when it
X64 is an oddball OS. Really a bastardized version of server2003. I can't wait
to get rid of it for Windows 7.
X64 predates Vista64, but was supposed to be easily (cough cough) upgraded to
Vista. Well, it required a new install and for the longest time the drivers
were better under X64 than
On 13/06/2009 Roger Smith wrote:
This is very encouraging, Tony. I have had my ancient SS4000 under a
cover for several years as well, and I'm sure it could use a similar
cleaning. I may give it a try. I take it that re-assembly was not a
great problem?
It's easy. 4 plastic spring clips
I too found the same thing. Even though covered up the mirror got
really dusty and the scans were really poor.
Tony's instructions are pretty much what I had to do and I used
denatured alcohol with a small piece of lint-free optical cloth.
Just be sure not to get the swab or whatever you use too
Win 7 is what Vista was suppose to be and should have been unless they screw
it up between now and its public release in Oct. 2009. As I noted before,
there are no 64 bit twain drivers and never have been any. So scanners
typically could not be used with the 64 bit OSs unless the maker supplied
Yes; but you are talking about a relatively new USB based scanner and Vista
X64. It is quite possible that this newer model scanner uses either third
party drivers developed by people like Ed Hemrick or has Epson developed WMA
drivers which are designed for Vista X32 and X64 bit versions. Being
I have an Epson 1600, that's older than my Polaroid 120 and Epson has
provided 64-bit twain drivers for it. But you're right, the 120 will
have to stay with a 32-bit XP machine.
Jim
LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
Yes; but you are talking about a relatively new USB based scanner and Vista
X64. It is
With the support for my Polaroid Sprintscan 120 now unavailable, I am
looking for a replacement. Has anyone had any experience with Epson's
V750M? The specs. look impressive if they hold up.
Jim
It's been a long time since I last posted here went digital and passed my
SS4000 SprintScan on to someone with more use for it.
The new owner tells me that the scanner tube has failed (after about a
decade, not surprising, I suppose...) and has asked for aid in obtaining a
replacement.
My
On 04/06/2009 Charles Knox wrote:
An extensive search for cold cathode tubes (including both Polaroid
and
Microtek) didn't bring up anything remotely like it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Philips are the OEM of most scanner tubes, however identifying and
sourcing it may be difficult if it
Thanks, Tony.
Have contacted the local (Australian) Microtek site no reply as yet.
Regards
Charles
At 11:42 AM 6/4/2009 +0100, you wrote:
On 04/06/2009 Charles Knox wrote:
An extensive search for cold cathode tubes (including both Polaroid
and
Microtek) didn't bring up anything remotely
Hi folks,
Does anyone know who, in the UK, services Minolta scanners these days?
I have a Minolta Scan Multi Pro that needs some TLC.
Peter
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Paul Nielsen, who used to subscribe to this forum, asked me to post this
to the forum, for anyone interested in using Epson scanners with Linux,
his note follows.
Art
There has been a success with using epson scanners on Ubuntu Linux. I
know, linux people love to talk about how Linux is the
Good evening, everyone.
It occurred to me today that I could upgrade my ViewScan to the pro
version for not too much money, which would allow me to scan RAW
format instead of (or in addition to) TIFF and/or JPEG.
Should I do this? Why or why not?
Thanks,
Carlisle
Both methods (printing and looking) are too subjective for my taste in
regard to this issue. I'd really like to see a objective map of the
changes. My personal sense is that jpeg is much better than most people
give it credit for.
It was designed with human vision in mind, so it does more
Bunch,
OK, the TB drive has been ordered, I'm almost ready to go. A few
more setting questions.
TIFF file type: The choices are 24, 48 and 64 bit RGBI. Which one
do I choose?
Use a Vuescan color balance preset, or set to none?
Thanks again for the help.
Carlisle
RGBI would make sense for raw, but I assume you are going do to light IR
cleanup.
I'd would use neutral. It compensates a bit for the dynamic range of the
film.
Personally, if I were to do what you are doing, i.e. batch scanning, I
would do it raw and RGBI TIFF. But if you just want to save RGB,
Carlisle Landel wrote:
Bunch,
Wow! The list lives!
Thanks to all for the advice.
Especiallly, thanks for the reminder that IR filtering doesn't work
for Kodachrome.
I've got the bulk slide feeder, so the plan is to simply drop a box
of slides in and start it up, then go away and drop
I'd like to point out that I never had a Seagate product fail. Of
course, that could be luck. They come with 5 year warranties.
Of course, I probably just cursed one of my drives by mentioning I had
no failures. I've built PCs for people that would spend the extra money
for a Seagate and had the
There is DVD+R and DVD-R. For technical reasons, +R is pr
eferred. DVD-RAM is to be avoided.
I have had the sam
e issue regarding an unreadable DVD, and I always run a v
erify. However, the reader was my own notebook. ;-) Peopl
e tend to upgrade their desktop burners more often than n
otebooks,
From my understanding JPEG 2000 is a dead fish in terms of support and
adoptions. If my understanding is correct, you would wind up with orphaned
files that neither you nor anyone else would be able to open and read in the
future; not good for archives. :-) The standard JPEG and the TIFF are at
Encryption can be done locally; but what can be encrypted can be unencrypted
if someone really wants to. Given the rash of allegedly secure information
that has managed to get publically distributed these days with respect to
major supposedly high security operations such as banks, corporations,
I'm ageeeing on using LWZ tiffs.
JPEG2000 has a number o
f vendors that support it. Perhaps it is not popular with
photographers, but it is used in GIS. I use the compress
or from ECW. You can view JPEG2000 in Irfanview.
If the
owners ligthened up on royalties so that browsers could
use
Actually, encryption these days is hard to break. Just as
k the NSA. (It is more cost effective to bribe to get the
data.) Even password protection is hard to break. Some d
isgruntled San Francisco employee refused to give up a pa
ssword. Experts spent weeks trying to get around the pass
word.
Seagate is tops in the industry at 5 years.
Was? They have just slashed their warranty to 3 yrs on some drives -
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3188
I have my reasons not
to like Seagate, but none are due to drive quality.
They've just had a load of trouble with their latest barracuda
On 26/02/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote:
There is DVD+R and DVD-R. For technical reasons, +R is pr
eferred. DVD-RAM is to be avoided.
This was DVD+R
Nowadays, most publishers have ftp.
Yup. Except this was a monstrous 1.5m x 1.5m @300dpi file, which took up
most of the DVD and would have
Fortunately got the 1.5Tbytes. Also, they still have 5 years.
The only computer part I have they really seems to be junk are these
Gigabyte Rocket fans. What a pain to replace. One stopped turning, but
the system shut down. The other lost it's speed control. I use Zalman now.
Bob Frost wrote:
Bunch,
Wow! The list lives!
Thanks to all for the advice.
Especiallly, thanks for the reminder that IR filtering doesn't work
for Kodachrome.
I've got the bulk slide feeder, so the plan is to simply drop a box
of slides in and start it up, then go away and drop another in when I
get to it. I
The Vuescan IR is pretty good. However, I view film scanning like
playing a LP. At the very least, you need to blow off the dust.
Carlisle Landel wrote:
Bunch,
Wow! The list lives!
Thanks to all for the advice.
Especiallly, thanks for the reminder that IR filtering doesn't work
for
Good to see some discussion on this list again!
Preston Earle wrote:
I think the scan resolution should be determined by how you plan to use the
final images. A 4000ppi scan will give a file capable of being printed to up
to 17 x 25. If all you want to do with most files is display them on a
Note that with vuescan, you can save raw images, then pro
cess them later. I generally don't work that way, but it
is another option.
In the scanning process, almost every
thing is done post processing. The exception would be mul
tipass scanning (usually multiple sampling, not really mu
ltiple
On 25/02/2009 Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
I say scan once, at the
highest resolution the scanner can do (in this case 4000 spi), and
create the best archive image for whatever use happens later.
Agreed. 4000ppi will also reduce any issues with grain aliasing, which can
be more of a problem at
On 26/02/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote:
I just bought three 1.5 terrabyte drives
RAID can add resilience but no way can it be considered safe, so don't
forget the other 4!
Here I have:
3 x 1TB RAID3 = 2TB
2 x 1TB for backup (on another LAN PC)
2 x 1TB for offsite backup.
So that's 7 x 1TB
I think raid 0 is probabaly as safe as it gets. Once you
spread the data, then I agree things could get exciting.
There is a chance of the OS peeing on your data.
I hav
e a Seagte external for backup, but I have nothing that c
an handle 3T. However it took me a while to fill up the 6
00 Gbytes on
I wonder if anyone has had positive experience with North Coast Photo. I just
got a test roll back.
Ken Rockwell (love him or hate him) mentioned them on his website. If you
request scanning at the time of slide processing, they will do enhanced
scanning for an additional $11.95 plus the cost
Norman Carver wrote:
Peter,
Re your query on copying:
I used the holder that came with the Nikon 8000 --not perfect but workable
I set it vertically in a small aluminum channel, with emulsion (dull)
side towards camera.
Behind this is curved white paper lit by two electronic flash at
Obviously there is a break-even point where the film plus
development plus scanning will exceed the cost of the di
gital camera. To reach the quality of the better Canon bo
dies, say 5d mark II or 1 mark III, you need to shoot Ast
ia. The film is pretty cheap in propacks.
Digital would
have a
Norm Carver wrote:
Since I have hundreds of 6x6 negs and color to digitize and am frustated by
the slowness of film scanners in general I have recently begun copying negs
with my new Canon 5D-II (22 meg).
After some comparitive tests with 4000dpi scans on the Nikon 8000 I can say
the
I asked this question a while back, I think.
Now that I have a late model Mac Pro and an old SprintScan 4000, I am tiring of
dragging out my old Dell computer with its SCSI card to do my slide scanning.
Have any of you used the USB -- SCSI adapters, such as the one made by Ratoc?
That is a tough one. I find USB a cluster f*** of driver
hassles. I find firewire to be less of a software hassle.
I would trust a firewire to SCSI converter more that USB
based device.
If they were still selling the Dimage 5
400 II, I would say get a new scanner. Mine cost a bit ov
er $500,
Since I have hundreds of 6x6 negs and color to digitize and am frustated by
the slowness of film scanners in general I have recently begun copying negs
with my new Canon 5D-II (22 meg).
After some comparitive tests with 4000dpi scans on the Nikon 8000 I can say
the follwing:
1. BW 300dpi prints
I'm just impressed you could get the Mark II. It is alway
s backordered when I check the usual suspects (BH, etc.)
That is the body that will get me to give up film. That,
and I can't get quick turn E-6 anymore.
--Original
Message--
From: Norm Carver
Sender: filmscanners_o
It is hard to say if you are delusional or not since you have failed to give
us enough data to say if the two are comparable or if they are apples and
oranges. You say you were comparing 400o dpi scans on a Nikon 8000 film
scanner of 6x6 negatives (were the ones used for the comparison color or
My dear Solomon,
I appreciate your response, but, me thinks you do get a bit carried away
I was merely throwing out an idea, not writng a scientific treatise.
Of course, if one is doing a comparison, one uses the same negative for
both--otherwise what is the point!
And keeps all other
It was not I who posed the question, So am I delusional according
died-in-the-wool scanners? in my post or who made a point of noting that
they grounded their question in the comparative findings based on an
empirical test situation. I was merely suggesting the sorts of
clarifications and
Ken McKaba wrote:
I use the Epson scanner utility for my 4900 flatbed and
the Minolta one for my Dimage ScanDual IV film scanner.
They both have histogram, curves, hue saturation
adjustments which are all the controls I ever use. I
played with Vuescan and SilverFast software but didn't
Yesterday I tried to use Vuescan but it was frustrating. Here's the situation:
my old
Nikon LS4000 is in urgent need of cleaning. I had a Minolta 5400-II on the
shelf in an
unopened box. Right after I bought it Minolta abandoned the business so I just
forgot
about the unit. Now I need to use
The good news is I run a 5400-II with Vuescan. The bad news is I haven't
a clue why yours isn't working.
Did you run that calibration step that the software requests?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I tried to use Vuescan but it was frustrating. Here's the
situation: my old
Nikon LS4000
gary wrote:
The good news is I run a 5400-II with Vuescan. The bad news is I haven't
a clue why yours isn't working.
Did you run that calibration step that the software requests?
:::embarrassed::: Yes, after I read your email! Vuescan works just fine now and
the
results are beautiful. Thank
Before I forget, vuescan by default does a small amount o
f clipping at the white level. This is a parameter to set
. There is also a place to toggle the scanner to turn cli
pped areas to say red so you can judge the effects of cli
pping. Sometimes a few specs of blownout pixels is better
than a
Thanks, Stan,
That gives me an idea what to expect and to not rush at all.
Bob
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Thanks, Tony.
The lamp comes on immediately with the power button. There's a split-second
of what might be a motor but seems more likely to be a relay driven by the
power switch. I tried the Polaroid cleaning brush but to no effect. SCSI
connectors seem OK and re-seating them also had no
On 23/04/2008 Bob Geoghegan wrote:
For people who've opened up their SS4000s, what did you use to unclip
the 4
fasteners on the bottom? Gently working them with a screwdriver
looks like
one way to go.
I haven't done it, no need yet touch wood. But I just flipped mine over
and had a look and
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Look here: http://pages.videotron.com/tiller/SS4000faults.htm
and here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@halftone.co.uk/msg20572.html
Whether you will find anything to fix is uncertain and there is plenty to break.
Stan
Bob
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