Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:55:49 -0500

Ted - what was the problem with your SS 4000/

ernie
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 08:53 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Guys and gals this is a sort of vent thing to the family.
>
> I have a Polaroid Sprint scan 4000, actually it's the third one I have 
> had
> in two years, a brand new one, a replacement while they, Polaroid, 
> tried to
> figure out what was wrong with the first one. Then a third replacement,
> brand new, well OK they told me it was new..... and at this moment I'm 
> as
> open to buying a Nikon Coolscan or other scanner pumping 4000 or 
> higher than
> I've ever been. Hell this wreck is going in the garbage with a big 
> sign...
> "dangerous to your life it's a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000!"
>
> This Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 is one great big heap of scrap metal and
> glass, without question, an expensive piece of   JUNK! :-( Certainly a 
> piece
> of gear I'd not recommend anyone buying no matter how well it worked 
> when it
> was working! Why?
>
> Well it was unworking far more than it was working and when one is in 
> the
> business of earning their keep with photography and the hardware that 
> goes
> with it, cameras, scanners or whatever, it's totally un-acceptable to 
> be
> trying to do your work that your life is dedicated to while attempting 
> to do
> that with constant failure of equipment. Expensive equipment!
>
> Surely I can't be the only human on the planet with the grief this 
> company
> has caused me with their lousy equipment that works some times and most
> times not.
>
> Yep they were kind enough to replace the first and the second, but 
> what's
> the point of having malfunctioning equipment replaced with just another
> piece of malfunctioning equipment ?  I'm wide open for suggestions as 
> you
> may well figure. :-( Or would you really like to hear how I feel? ;-)
>
> ted
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com> (Re: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner)
Reply from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner)