On 25 Jan 2001, at 13:11, tom wrote: > Steve Cottrell wrote: > > > > Don't buy a Polaroid, get the Coolscan! > > That may be good advice, but the lifespan of scanners seems to be pretty > crappy across the board, if you can believe the people on the > filmscanners list. My old Polaroid SS 35 Plus developed a problem in the main board after about 18 months use. The controller of the stepping mechanism failed and the system couldn't hold levels so it could only rarely successfully calibrate itself and would spit out SCSI errors, a real pain. The remedy required replacement of the unit at considerable cost, it didn't just stop working either it acted strangely at first then became much worse over time :-( I got my SS4000 before the Silverfast software came bundled as standard, the native Polaroid software is hideous, I hope the software for the new Nikon scanners has be well thought out and made usable at last. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 Fax +61-2-9554-9259 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org.
