The
Sprintscan 120 IS shipping in limited quantities and we have a considerable
back order situation at this time. Some of the participants of this list participated
in a limited that concluded about 10 days ago. Some of these folks were
Sprintscan 4000 owners; a couple owned the Minolta Dual. One tester is a
teacher at the Santa Fe workshops and uses a Imacon Precision II. Another was a
production house that currently uses a Kodak 3570(?). This was the only dissatisfied
customer as it was not as fast as the 1000 DPI scans they were getting from the
Kodak.
All the testers were very impressed with
images sharpness and shadow detail. The Minolta users were particularly amazed
with the positive difference in image quality they achieved with the Sprintscan
120. The tester who typically uses the $14,000 Imacon said the Image sharpness
was equivalent with only slightly less shadow detail. I have asked him to
provide me with sample files showing this. Not bad for more than $10,000 less.
Today I
returned from Canada where the President of Lasersoft Imaging and myself
trained the Polaroid Canada sales organization as well as two major pan
Canadian dealers. The digital guru’s at these organizations have significant
pre-press experience and were very impressed with the Silverfast and the value
package of the scanner, Silverfast, Binuscan and PolaColor Insight. For them the
Sprintscan 120/Silverfast combination in particular was what impressed them.
There have
been two “Polaroid Day” open houses in Manhattan. The first was at Photo Care
were several were sold of the floor and today B&H is having a Sprintscan
120 day. In the United States many of our dealers catering to pro photographers
will be having similar events.
In
summary, of all the customers who have used the Sprintscan 120 not one has been
disappointed in the quality of the scanned images. Anyone interested in a
medium format scanner should certainly put the Sprintscan 120 their list to
look at.
And
remember if you have any problems you have me to yell at J
David
-----Original
Message-----
From: Tim Halloran
[mailto:tkhalloran@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
10:35 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: filmscanners: Any
Polaroid Sprintscan 120 Info
I have
started hearing about the Nikon 8000, but haven't heard a thing about
Polaroid's Sprintscan 120. I would certainly like to see something on the
Sprintscan in order to make a better decision on which to buy.
Tim Halloran
