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Subject: RE: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner
From: "bnelschphoto" <bill@photobynelsch.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:46:12 -0700

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
> 
> 
> 
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