[filmscanners] Re: Polaroid 120 opinions

2005-05-31 Thread Arthur Entlich
The Polaroid 120 is made by Microtek, and is discontinued as a Polaroid product to the best of my knowledge. If you are buying a new one make sure there is still a warranty program for it. Otherwise, look at the Microtek version. Or perhaps you are considering used ones. There were some minor

[filmscanners] Re: PEC-12 (was Modern photography)

2005-05-31 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personally, I try to stay away from products that are so well hidden in their contents to make them potentially dangerous if one ends up in an emergency, because the MSDS is incomplete. To get this back to scanningg, I'd love to try Kami fluid*, but minor

[filmscanners] Re: PEC-12 (was Modern photography)

2005-05-31 Thread Arthur Entlich
There are dozens of ethyl and methyl based compounds that can cause both blindness and coma, drunkenness, and other similar symptoms. The flash point of Methanol (Methyl Alcohol) is 54 degrees F The flash point of Methyl Acetate is an amazingly low 14 degrees F The later has a fruity odor. I

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2005-05-31 Thread Laurie Solomon
Most use high optical resolution flatbed scanners with some form of transparency adapter to scan film formats 5x7 or larger since one often does not really need resolutions greater than 1200 - 2400 ppi which many current flatbed scanners can handle easily. Film scanners that can handle this size

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2005-05-31 Thread
Laurie Solomon wrote: snip Thus, in my opinion, in the past there were mailing lists and still may be mailing lists for the drum scanners and the Imacons as well as for many of the flatbed scanners that could be used. But as for an itemized list of all the various scanners that can do a good job

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2005-05-31 Thread Preston Earle
Bert Quijalvo asked Was there a list (as a result of the discussion) of recommended scanners for 5x7 transparency scanning? - There is a group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanHi-End/ that might fit your needs. This group deals with professional/industrial

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2005-05-31 Thread Laurie Solomon
I guess it all depends on how you define a good job of scanning. Doesn't the Epson Perfection 4990 Photo scanner scan transparencies up to 8x10? I fail to see how this contradicts anything that I have said or refutes anything I suggested. I think I acknowledged that there were flatbed scanners

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2005-05-31 Thread
Ummm. It's not intended to contradicts anything you've said. I did not intend to make a list of all the available scanners and never said that I knew of one. All I did was point out one scanner that might fit the bill -- that is depending on how one thinks a good job is. The Epson 4990 would

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2005-05-31 Thread Laurie Solomon
I would not have responded to your post in the way I did or even replied to your suggestion if you had only quoted the original poster rather than citing and quoting a passage from my post. This led me to believe that you were responding to my post and not the original message. I have no basic

[filmscanners] Re: Polaroid 120 opinions

2005-05-31 Thread Arthur Entlich
Hi James, You are speaking of David Hemingway. Some time back, I tried to reconnect with him, but have not been able to locate him. After he left Polaroid he stopped communicating with me, so I have no news, unfortunately. He has a common name and so trying to Google him isn't easy. Art

[filmscanners] RE: Polaroid 120 opinions

2005-05-31 Thread Laurie Solomon
Art, I would also be interested in locating and re-establishing contact with David - especially concerning the Polaroid Film Recorder that I have and how one might get or create new lookup files for it that are dedicated to handling today's batch of films. However, I think that he dropped out of