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

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

I own a Flextight and called Imacon Tech support to find out if sharpening
was shut of at 0. They told me it was not, I asked why and they told me the
programmers thought "everyone" would want some sharpening. I confirmed this
with Andrew Rodney.
David

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Simon Lamb [mailto:simon@sclamb.com]
Sent:   Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:24 PM
To:     hemingd@polaroid.com
Subject:        [filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

Austin Franklin wrote:

>
> > 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.


Austin

All sharpening was off, we double checked it to ensure an even test.  We
also turned it on to see the difference and, to be honest, the Flextight was
as sharp with sharpening turned off as the other two were with it turned on.
Turning sharpening on in the Flextight did produce absolutely stunning
scans, the best I have seen I think.

I have sent an email to Imacon to check that there is no hardware sharpening
being done without the being aware of it.

Simon

Simon

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