Re:Peter Tattersall Kodak Professional RFS 3600 Film Scanner

wparsons@evergreeninvestments.com · Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:31:41 -0400

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Bruce,
I suggest that you are looking at your problem from the wrong point of
view.  With a cd-rom burner, you can eliminate your zip drive and gain
speed, longevity, and interchangeability, and eliminate problems from the
zip drive.  I recently retired mine after determining that it was causing
me printer problems (garbage lines mixed into the output).  I now use my
cd-rom burner for backups.  spindles of clanks are really cheap!
You could also switch to a USB flatbed scanner.  This would allow you to
buy the high quality neg scaner that you are seeking.  My choice would be
to concentrate my computer resources on the high qual neg scanner, not the
low level devices.
I might not consider the Polaroid device in anticipation of a failing
company.
Regards,  Bill

                    "Arizona Maps                                                 
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Hi Peter

I won't buy the Polaroid (scsi) because they already told me at tech
support
that they won't support it if it is daisy chained with another scsi  device
or I put a second scsi cared in my computer.

Nikon has the same attitude with a firewire card in a machine with  scsi.
I would have already bought the Nikon LS4000.

I can not be with out  my scsi card because my new Umax Powerlook 2100XL
is on it and my zip  drive.

I am not looking for cheap, I am looking for USB.

The next  step if I can't find USB is firewire, but I have already been
warned
that  sometimes firewire and scsi don't get along to well.

Any suggestions on a  good USB unit. It's not the price, it's the hardware.
(Windows 2000)

The questions are not quite the same. They are the same question  about
different scanners. I get a lot of answers from the Epson  groups.

Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From:  Peter  Tattersall
To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:09  AM
Subject: Re: Kodak Professional RFS 3600  Film Scanner

On Thursday, September 6, 2001, at 10:24 PM, Arizona Maps  ((Bruce)) wrote:

First, please don't yell about me cross posting as all four of  these
groups
are in the same boat and four heads are better than one.  What's the
difference if I ask the same question once or have to send it  four
individual
times?

</curmudgeon mode  on>

I don't mind the cross-posting so much as the fact you asked the  same
question a couple of days ago on this list - which is dedicated to Epson
printers, not scanners. As for reviews, a simple Google query on "kodak
3600  scanner review" turned up 19 pages of hits, so they aren't hard to
find. It's  slow, only runs 24-bit IIRC, runs on SCSI or USB but not
Firewire, doesn't  have digital ICE or equivalent, and last time I looked
wasn't handled by  Vuescan. I'd rather have a Nikon LS4000 for a slightly
higher price or a  Coolscan IV or FS2710 if I wanted a lower price and
didn't need the  resolution.

</curmudgeon mode off>

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