[filmscanners] Re: new Nikon scanners

["Eric C" <eric.calderwood@btinternet.com>]

If you are in the UK I think it is about £400.


On 4/2/04 4:19 pm, "focus@adnc.com" <focus@adnc.com> wrote:

> Just curious, where did you get the repair quote from? My Sprintscan 120's
> dead I can't
> even get Polaroid to answer my e-mails about where the nearest repair deopt
> is. (and, of
> course, how much did they quote you?)
> 
> Jim Levitt wrote:
> 
>> My Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 has just died on me. The repair charges are not
>> cost effective. I will need a replacement.
>> 
>> Does anyone have hands-on experience with the new Nikon 5000 scanner? Does
>> it output clearly superior scans to those produced by the Polaroid (or
>> equivalent Microtek?). I realize the Nikon has infrared cleaning
>> capabilities that are lacking in the Polaroid.
>> 
>> Have the Nikon scanners been mechanically reliable, in general? My Polaroid
>> always sounded like a coffee grinder, and died despite rather light use.
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice.
>> 
> 
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