to it. All NS hoppers have a mixed reputation, for jamming and
misfeeding, and if I remember right, there is the additional limitation
that exposure used for the first slide is used for the entire batch.
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Now with a few small additions and edits for clarity.
NB this is not currently indexed from my site menus as, like a bunch of
similarly hidden motorcycle features it is really off-topic for the site,
so
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There is a 3rd screw down a hole
(top rhs of the cover, as shown), and the 4th retains the cover over
the
stepper mechanism - the slim rectangular box protuberance that your
LH
sketched blue line crosses. Essentially, there is a screw in each of
the 4
of this process? I
spent some time with google but was not successful.
The only page I know of is http://pages.videotron.com/tiller/SS4000faults.htm
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On 16/07/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote:
The Polaroid is in worse shape for resale u
nless Microtek is servicing them.
As far as I know Polaroid still offer service support
http://www.polaroid.com/service/index.jsp
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On 16/07/2009 Paul Patton wrote:
I thought the Polaroid Sprintscan was still highly regarded as a
filmscanner. Is it really only worth $50.00 or is my informant wrong?
See items 160348227611 160345106356 - both sold at $200 BIN.
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/V750, at least for medium format - there was a direct
comparison with a Nikonscan 8000. See the V750 and V700 reviews at
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Menus/reviews.htm
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different from the much cheaper V700. Lens coating seems very
slightly better and you get Silverfast with the 750. Most important factor
appears to be stand-offs for the film carrier, which can be improvised.
Personally I'd use Vuescan anyway.
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of either the helicoid thread
nor the guide rods, but operation will distribute the fresh lubricant one
you have it back together.
All other dust was removed with a dry brush then the used DSLR pad, then
the bits and lid replaced. A 10minute job
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of the Philips
part. The Microtek version had part of the tube painted black to cut
flare. I bought the Philips part, ordered through a Philips dealer, and
applied the paint myself and it worked fine.
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taken far longer to FTP than driving, and
'time was of the essence'. For some reason that was never explained the
agency insisted on my upsizing it rather than giving it to their printer
to do.
Fortunately nobody has ever asked me to do similar before or since.
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and yes, they look like typical wedge-type clips and a flat
bladed screwdriver pushed gently inwards should do it.
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if the SCSI is detached.
Otherwise, is the lamp on, visible through the front slot? It should light
immediately when you press the power button, and if the bulb is blown I
doubt it's going to go through initialisation.
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On 04/04/2008 David J. Littleboy wrote:
I moved the Firewire card
(an Adaptex AUA-3121 HBA) from my previous previous machine and the
8000 now
works.
Shame. I was going to offer you $20 for it.
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so there's some sort of vote. I'll do whichever, it's
trivially easy to change the list operation.
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distributed. If I
didn't maintain filters you'd get that crap even if your email address was
unpublished in list mails.
There is nothing wrong with your approach but it can only work for a
minority of people who can burn email accounts as they become unusable.
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Mail-archive scripting prevents bulk mail through these forms. I am sure
they'd spot a scripted harvesting attempt, as it's a separate http:
request for every archived msg across hundreds of lists. Highly unlikely.
2. Someone else on the list now or at some time past
silently. Hotmail is unsupported on
this list and many others because of this; you can use it of you want
(many people do), but if you have problems my response will be limited to
'I told you so':)
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I try to steer the Mac users I know to open source multi-platform
programs like Thunderbird for email, Firefox for browsing, etc.
Strongly seconded even for us PC victims too :)
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Don's PDF showing the brush and instructions for use are now at
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On 25/02/2008 Don Denburg wrote:
I will send them to you directly, and to anyone
else who is interested--unless there is someplace that I can upload
them
for general viewing.
If you want to email them to me I'll park them on a webpage.
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one too I think. The 4000 seems to mistake the
neg holder for the slide holder rather more often than it used to - about
half the time now. Is that a symptom?
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from Polaroid Tech support on 800-432-5355
800 numbers aren't do-able from UK so I never did.
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specced it and commissioned the
design from M'tek. Polaroid later rather regretted the co-licensing deal
they did with M'tek to keep costs down, as they sold far more '4000's than
they expected.
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management.
All fair comment.
Now, has anyone done any scanning lately? :-)
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avoided using it. As for Outlook, I don't know.
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not found a way
to do this in OE.
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of repeat unselective quoting.
I won't even mention the needlessly slow distribution, wasted bandwidth
and the server brought to its knees ;)
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On 14/02/2008 gary wrote:
This may be an issue how how Vista is marketed in the UK.
PLEASE trim your posts! There is no need to quote the entire thread and it
is agony for people on the digest.
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.
But somewhere I read that Firewire-SCSI adapters were an easier and
simpler engineering prospect, and potentially less prone to driver issues
than USB2-SCSI, because FW and SCSI were releated protocols. That's not
to say there are problems with USB2-SCSI in practice, of course.
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On 11/02/2008 Stan Schwartz wrote:
I don't know if the SS4000 is Scsi-1 or SCSI-2.
SS4000 is SCSI-2, definitely. I'm still using mine :)
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On 09/08/2007 gary wrote:
As you probably read, they are scanning the old Apollo moon film. The
scanner in the link above is the type of scanner used for this
project.
Coo. You don't see those on eBay too often. But I bet it's just a
repackaged Panasonic digicam ;)
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If all else fails I still have the Kodak Brownie 620 I was given as a kid,
a tin box with a 2 element lens stuck in the front. That wasn't perfect
either, but I can't say it mattered :)
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TO THE LIST WILL NOT WORK UNLESS I HAPPEN TO
READ IT. IT JUST MEANS SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE POINTLESSLY GET YOUR REQUEST.
How hard can it be? Really!?
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photofinishing trade will love them, as they'll be designed as drop-off
and get back prints (chosen at a console) and a DVD.
So I think that's a perfect excuse to buy a Leica M8 and save the planet :)
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that. Mine is in the middle of a chain
with another scanner beyond it wearing a termination block.
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I can afford someday.
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the middle of writing a series of blog pieces about this.
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that the
server has clagged:)
I'm happy to let it mutate to accomodate changed conditions, though I
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just have to find it :)
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much if you don't print big enough for it to matter
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On 09/06/2007 Henk de Jong wrote:
The Canon 5D looks like an interesting camera body and even more now
I have
read that I could (re)use my Contax, Yashica and Tokina lenses.
A friend fitted Leica R lenses to his 1DS-2.
http://www.cameraquest.com/frames/4saleReos.htm
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of propellant will leave a hard to remove residue). It may be a good idea
to check lubrication on the transport threads too.
Mine still works. I'm amazed :)
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The list should now be operating normally again.
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edge, it's cheaper
and less frustrating and reliability is worth more than an extra 10-30% speed.
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On 04/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote:
But just as the restart was completing, I encountered the
much feared blue screen. I wont bore anyone with the details but I
finally was up and running some seven hours later, with the updated
drivers.
Oh I hate weekends like that :-}
Too often, by half.
for the ongoing screw-up over the halftone.co.uk domain.
Almost nothing is visible, it is all locked down. So if you go looking
around be prepared to be puzzled and disappointed. The only photo on the
site which is presently visible to guests is on the home page).
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can go into device
manager and refresh the view instead, and it should be seen. Once seen,
you can turn the device off and on at will, and won't have that problem
again - until you reboot with the device powered off.
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On 03/06/2006 Tony Sleep wrote:
Is the controller on the motherboard? If so, it might
be worth looking for updated motherboard drivers, or trying a PCI
card USB
adaptor instead.
Sorry, too much hurry. I could have been clearer. I meant 'updated BIOS
and chipset drivers' for the mobo. Back
of USB
peripherals push that limit, so if you have 1 plugged into a hub that
doesn't provide any extra power, it falls in a heap.
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, it works. I am sure I have used VS
with various scanners without installing any mfr. s/w, or is a native OS
driver for the scanner invoked?
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On 31/05/2006 James L. Sims wrote:
By the way, Tony, please check your clock, this message was time
stamped
3/31/06 1:05 PM.
Yes, sorry about that. I had been using some accounts s/w for which I
needed to fake the time date, and forgot to set it back.
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, which I had to, to match older projects. I
need an MF scanner for some 6x6, but am waiting for prices to fall on eBay:)
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This may have implications for the filmscanners list, as if I cannot get
the domain released I shall have to change the list address. More later on
that.
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Unfortunately the Nabble archive doesn't go back very far, just to summer
2005, when someone - not me - signed up a delivery address.
Unfortunately the archive of the early years of the list, which was hosted
by a member at http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/ is long since gone.
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largely fallen into disfavour. And of course cost.
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barely larger than A4 and 30mm thick. The Umax is a
huge slab, 25x the volume. Both work with Vuescan.
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an Epson 1160 + CIS.
MIS Quad black and Lyson inks are other monochrome possibilities you may
want to investigate, but they are not total cures for the problem.
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wrote:
I think item 3 might be the culprit.
Nice theory but the mould doesn't seem to show any preference for the film
rebate, which is where handling has occurred.
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UK indoor conditions. The vast majority of negs are
completey unaffected, the damn stuff seems to make a beeline for the only
few images I like. I almost wonder whether it is because they have
periodically been removed and used in the enlarger.
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Personally I love the smooth tonality of dig, even for BW. I mostly used
the finer grain films, TMax CN, Delta, XP1/2 anyhow, to escape grain.
Before those, I used solvent developers, or pushed ISO125 in 2-bath rather
than put up with the offensive mush.
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several months when it broke.
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to eliminate the fringing problems often
seen in the LS30 due to mechanical resonance. I doubt it will fix the
problem, but a change to the waviness will tend to confirm a mechanical
glitch rather than driver or electronics.
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digests if there's no traffic;)
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they were written, something I have been personally bitten by
with some DVDR supplied to clients, and also a DVDR supplied to me by a
friend. When this happens, you can see the dirs and filenames OK, but can't
actually open the files.
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years
ago, check the capacitors, they went through a bad patch...
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the PSU or mobo, by substitution.
Check the voltages in the BIOS. A careful visual inspection of the mobo may
help pin it down. Look for leaking/bulging/corrosion-covered electrolytic
capacitors especially.
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Brad Davis wrote:
In part, because I much enjoyed reading the list when there was more
activity, I asked if there was a way to get it moving again.
You seem to have done just that:)
Asking questions, or putting up points/observations for debate will do it.
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many
places to keep up with'. Really, if there's going to be yet another one, it
has to spot a niche nobody else has else it'll just turn yellow and the
leaves will drop off.
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is streets ahead of anything else and presents no significant
limitations (except the learning curve:).
But perhaps requirements are so disparate and individual that there's
little possibility of productive discussion, everybody just has to figure
out their own tailor-made best method.
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WELCOME BACK, ART!!! I thought you'd died! At my age it's getting to
be a real worry.
He has. I have. You have. Didn't you see the pearly gates on the way in?
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needing rescue, a ghastly
business.
I rather think most users are in much the same position, with by now
adequate knowledge and filmscanners they're happy with. There aren't many
new adopters of this now mature technology, which is past its peak, just
like film itself.
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. It's not
surprising it died, the economics are ruinous.
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light on this?
Could be some other process stealing CPU cycles. It's ages since I've used
Polacolor (VS works better for me), but did have the problem at one time
though I can't now remember what the culprit was.
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quality plus poor
software meant few people bought it despite the low price. Unusually
capable of scanning an entire uncut roll of 35mm, but no take-up spool so
it just got dumped on the floor.
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the owners.
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), then set 'scan from
preview'. When you hit 'scan', VS then processes from memory rather than
scanning the image a second time.
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EMAILS FROM THE FILMSCANNERS LIST SERVER WILL EVER CONTAIN ATTACHMENTS, so
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...and I bet you didn't even notice:) New mobo/faster cpu/more RAM/new OS
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aliasing through interaction with the
sensor Nyquist limit.
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more blown extreme highlights,
already a problem with the (then new) straightline films like TMax, more
scratches and marks. The condenser head went back in its box and stayed
there.
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is back online. Please do NOT resend mail.
My personal email is handled by the same machine, so there's no point
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