[filmscanners] RE: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

["Hemingway, David J" <HEMINGD@polaroid.com>]

-60 is the magic number to shut down sharpening.
David

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Moreno Polloni [mailto:mp@dccnet.com]
Sent:   Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:59 PM
To:     hemingd@polaroid.com
Subject:        [filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

>> I think you have done a good conclusion here. If you go back in
>> the mailing
>> list you found what I have been written about  film flatness problems . I
>> did last summer a test with my own 3 scanners LS2000. LS4000 and Polaroid
>> 35+ against Imacon Photo.
>> None of them could match the Imacon scanner in sharpness and Dmax.

> How do you know that any of the scanners weren't doing some sharpening
> on their own?  I'm asking if you confirmed that they weren't...  I would
> specifically suspect the Imacon did some sharpening...I don't know about
the
> others.

I tested a Flextight II last year, and later found out that even with
software sharpening set at 0, there's still a significant amount of
sharpening applied. To turn off software sharpening, a fairly large negative
value has to be entered, something like -100 or -200.


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