[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-40 vs Polaroid SS4000

["Tomek Zakrzewski" <tomzakrz@ka.onet.pl>]

Tris Schuler wrote:

> >I know you love your Polaroid scanner. It is a great scanner. But, it
will
> >be a better scanner with Digital ICE.
> >Jack Phipps
> >Applied Science Fiction
Absolutely true.
It is as simple as that: Polaroid would be a better scanner if it had ICE. I
would have bought one long ago.

> I've never tried Digital Ice so I can't comment on the software itself.
I tried it. There are no visible artifacts, no visible loss of sharpness, at
least with Nikon scanners.

> You want to know why I think there even is a Digital Ice? For the same
> there are upgrades to scanning programs such as Vuescan and SilverFast and
> whatnot. Because people like gimmicks and they've been brainwashed to
> believe these gimmicks with either save them time and/or make it easier
for
> them to overcome their own limitations--to include laziness.
It's stunning how far some people can go to defend their choice of anything,
be it a camera or a filmscanner.
There are people who use scanners to scan one image a day, spot it
meticulously, watch the image being printed, etc. And there are people who
have many images to scan, some new and very clean, but also some very
important but damaged slides from the '70s. Also some people provide a
service to others of scanning images for a fee.
Please understand that there are people who absolutely need ICE because the
don't have time to waste on anything, let alone spotting. They have to
establish themselves an efficient workflow. It's not gimmicks ot their
laziness as you say.

> Yet the hordes still clamor for
> Digital Ice.
Now I have doubts you're able to understand what I'm talking about.

> By the way, I would like to use Digital Ice once just to see how well it
> works, but I'm rather confident I'd be disappointed in the results.
So don't even try it!!! You already have your opinion.

> I have a question, Jack: do you sell this equipment or related software
for
> a living? I ask for the reason you come across strongly as a salesman.
Jack Phipps is as much biased towards his company as David Hemingway was
towards his. I mean both very little.

My final conclusion. There are people who constantly argue which scanner is
better. And there are people who use their scanners commercially with
success, and don't have problems with printing their materials in magazines
or selling their fine art. And the majority of them don't use Polaroid
scanners.


Regards

Tomek Zakrzewski

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