On Tuesday, October 23, 2001, at 02:23 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: > Can't say that I'm too fussed on the mechanical build and function of > the > SS4000, also the Polaroid software is just pathetic, I would really be > looking > at the new Nikons if I were you. Pssst want to buy a SS4000 cheap :-)
I never had any issues with my SS4000...of course, I only used it for about a year before I took the plunge and bought an SS120. Yes, the Polacolor Insight software is clunky, and yes, sometimes the poor thing can't figure out what carrier you have loaded, but the SS4000 does make a great scan. Thank God the SS120 came with SilverFast, though. What are the resolutions and d-maxes of the others? 4000 dpi is a joy to work with, especially for bigger prints. By the way, if anyone in the Toronto/Oakville/Mississauga area wants to see what a 20x30 inch print from a 4000dpi scan (from the SprintScan 120) of a 6x7 Provia 100F transparency looks like, there's one up on the wall now at the store. The detail is just phenomenal...not that I needed the assurance, but this print shows me that I really did make the right decision when I bought this stuff. ;) When I think about it, the $4000 CDN that the SprintScan 120 cost was really a bargain compared to the estimated $10,000 CDN that the 6mp full-frame CCD Pentax digital would have cost. I can process a lot of film for $6000, and the final result, when printed big, is most certainly superior. By the way, anyone looking at an SS120, please note that if you have anything less than 500 megs of RAM, you'll scream and tear your hair out trying to manipulate a full-sized 48-bit scan (for reasons too complex to get into, I was down to 384 megs of RAM for about a week, and lemme tell you, it sucked. Good news is that RAM is cheap -- the computer store next door has 256 sticks for $55 CDN -- and now I'm running north of 700 megs, which is much nicer). -Aaron - 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 .
