I gather nobody on the list has attempted to clean the CCD of a SS4000?
Rob
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I have a friend in his 70's who just bought an Epson 4870 Scanner based
on my recommendation to scan his library of slides. I thought a
dedicated slide neg scanner like the LS5000 would be too complicated for
him to utilize, and warned him that flatbeds aren't as sharp in scanning
slides as
Not having lived to talk about it ;-)
Are you getting halos around bright areas?
Why do you think it needs cleaning?
Art
Rob Geraghty wrote:
I gather nobody on the list has attempted to clean the CCD of a SS4000?
Rob
looks familiar?
http://www.jessops.com/search/viewproduct.cfm?PRODUCT=REFD3600SMS
http://www.braun-phototechnik.de/E/Products/scanner/scanner.htm
http://www.reflecta.de/htms.com/p_fil09.htm
reflecta seem to sell branded versions of the pacific imaging range, as do jessops
(major UK
At 10:49 PM 2/24/2004 +1000, Rob Geraghty wrote:
I gather nobody on the list has attempted to clean the CCD of a SS4000?
Rob
Hi Rob,
The following was posted in January of '03 on this List by Thomas Maugham:
Summary of SS4000 cleaning discussion.
HOW DO I KNOW IF MY SCANNER NEEDS CLEANING?
Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not having lived to talk about it ;-)
Are you getting halos around bright areas?
Why do you think it needs cleaning?
Because I had the case open to blow dust out of the stupid carrier sensor
and had a look through to the CCD - or perhaps the mirror. I'm
PLEASE: we should add to this:
After you have release the catches, slide the cover off very slowly and
use a penlight to visualize the wires connecting the switch under the
cover to the main unit. These wires are short and if the cover is
removed in certain directions, one or more of these
Somewhere in the archives of this list there was a discussion about
cleaning front surface mirrors, I believe. I think a camera repairman
provided a primer on the method without damaging the surface.
You may be correct that the inability to autofocus might be dirt on
either the mirror or the
If I recall correctly, this problem with short wires was an early
version design flaw which Polaroid/Microtek corrected, and had a recall
on some years ago.
But some may still have the problem, so its a good warning.
Art
Stan Schwartz wrote:
PLEASE: we should add to this:
After you have
