Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Get a Nikon Coolscan 4000, you won't be disappointed. Bill in Denver > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of > Ted Grant > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:54 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner > > > 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 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-> users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html