Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-31 Thread Arthur Entlich
I have to agree with Ed's comments. Wouldn't it be nice if products came with a diagnostic chip and buffer, that would record all basic information of conditions at a specific time (well, maybe not all, such as composition of air in the room, or how many beers the operator had consumed ;-)),

Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 5/29/2001 4:28:59 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is, unlike the actual manufacturer, they are rarely supplied with enough replacement units to be able to just make a decision to trade the broken model with a new sealed or out of box model. I think a

RE: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-29 Thread Oostrom, Jerry
Reply is below. BTW. I blind-carbon-copied this mail to several of the involved people at Acer, so that they are again reminded to the advertising power of users (actually also not to talk too much behind their backs). I suggest some of them follow this filmscanner mailing list to hear the

RE: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-29 Thread Lynn Allen
Jerry Oostrom wrote (re his Acer Scanwit) (symptoms: brown-yellowish bands with negatives along the scan direction at the boundaries of the frame for light parts of the photo, similar problem with positive-film in dark shadowish parts, I've mailed examples to this forum in the past) . This is