Hi Steve, I like the SS4000 plenty, even more given the price and rebate. There are no 4000ppi consumer CCD film scanners available that are really worth what people are paying for them given that the Polaroid SS4000 has a net cost of $450-$550 or so. Before the Polaroid story broke the price had come down some but it was I think the first 4000ppi scanner out and it was and is still among the top scanners available. The only thing that has changed was that Polaroid had filed for chapter 11 protection and is trying to dig themselves out of a hole. This freaked people out some but IMO no big deal, the SS4000 is still a pretty good scanner and this didn't change. For the difference in price you can buy a copy of Photoshop and add lots of extra RAM and a huge hard disc to your system to make it work better for the large files you will be manipulating. There are certainly better scanners with much higher resolution and with much better response to dense images on chromes (this is where I'm coming from anyway), though they are quite expensive and no longer consumer products. Regards, Chip Louie > > > What are your thoughts about the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 especially at > current prices...compasred to the best out there, of home, non > professional > scanners..? thanks Steve - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.