Saw it at Comdex. They claimed it will be priced at ~550$ ! They want to
be the lowest-cost ICE machine.
I hope they will improve their software, though, because it kept hanging
the demo PC on the show.
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:52:26 -0000, you wrote:
>Pete Andrews wrote:
>
>> I don't think I'm letting any cats out of any
>> bags by saying that Acer'ssoon-to-be-released
>> 2740s model will have digital ICE.
>
>Boy, I must be out of touch - I hadn't heard that one. I know the old
>Acer didn't have variable exposure control. Has the new one? If it
>does, Acer's aggressive pricing should make the new model a winner.
>
>> BTW, with the 2740s, digital ICE definitely
>> *doesn't* work with Kodachrome.
>
>
>Curious. Despite Minolta's caveats on the use of ICE on Kodachromes,
>ICE on the Elite works fine on all the Kodachrome 64s I've tried and
>I've heard plenty of Nikon users who have had reasonable success as
>well. Unless I just got lucky (which is possible), I wonder how the
>ICE implementation differs between the Nikon, Minolta and Acer? Given
>the technology behind ICE, they should all work the same.
>
>
>Al Bond
>
>
