Hello Sandy, My StandScan Pro came with the battery holder as part of the StandScan. It wasn't an add on. I agree that the lighting must be better with the 12 V mains connected.
Cheers, Anne On 8 Mar 2013, at 12:04, Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Bonjour Anne, > > I see you got the StandScan pro! I have it too and think it very good. I > would just like to add one comment to your findings: it would appear, from > your two nearly excellent scans, that there is little to choose between the 9 > volt and 12 volt options, however, this is only true when there is reasonable > ambient lighting. Something I have been looking for, and think to have found > with the StandScan Pro, is a way of making sure that: 1. The phone is always > in the perfect position and 2. that the lighting within the box is perfect > regardless of other conditions. I have found that 12 volts of power is > necessary to obtain perfect/near perfect results even in complete darkness! > When the ambient light is good enough, one doesn't even need to use the LED > lights included in the StandScan box, but, especially, for those of us who > have no light perception, and are unable to avoid creating shadows etc, the > StandScan plus 12 volts of light, is capable of fulfilling these 2 > requirements. > > By the way, did you buy the 12 volt battery holder, by any chance? I > thought I did, but it seems I didn't. If I can find it on their website, I > will try and order it, because I don't always want to rely upon a mains > connection. > > Also, for those who are interested in these more abstruse points, your > scans were double page scans taken from a book, something to be aimed for, > but in general, single page scans are, as in the case of a letter in the > post, the most important challenge re access and independence. So, just an > observation from here: the other day a friend came round, all het up, with a > letter from a solicitor. My friend read it to me and wanted my reaction to > it. He was distressed and kept reading me the text, all in a rush, > interjecting expletives in lieu of commas! In the end I said "I'll just make > a copy of this and read it again when I can concentrate properly." I did this > using the StandScan Pro, I got a perfect scan and was able to find the word > "or" in a significant sentence which made all the difference! So, an example > of the need to have absolutely perfect scans sometimes. > > I am certainly glad to have this scanning aid and would recommend it to > anyone, regardless of their free-hand scanning skills. I think it will work > both for those of us who have developed a facility with the various scanning > apps and those who have had absolutely no success at all! But I would > definitely recommend the use of 12 volts for relyable results in all > situations! > > Onwards and upwards! Sandy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
