RE: filmscanners: My replacement 8000 is banding like the first one:-(

[Raphael Bustin]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Lynn Allen wrote:

> Not that I really want to comment on this at all, but I've found that if I 
> don't, maybe nobody will (too often, and not often enough). :-)
> 
> Given: That the stepper mechanism is accurate, and not just a piece of 
> trash...
> Then: It would not matter whether the copy is moved or the scanning head is 
> moved.


True enough, Lynn, but our entire job 
in this listserv sometimes seems to be 
second-guessing the manufacturers 
and telling them what they did wrong. <g>

Jawed had expressed an opinion on which 
of two schemes might work better. I 
simply wanted to point out that, for 
better or for worse, most film scanners 
worked the other way.

My personal guess is that the better 
way is the one that moves the smaller 
mass -- all else being equal.


rafe b.