Winsor:
The financial picture for Polaroid looks pretty bleak. They are
surviving by defaulting on the interest payment to bondholders. See the
story at:
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB994977181493460718.html
You could also read the filings that Polaroid has made with the SEC.
The stock ticker symbol is PRD. Go to the finance/quotes section of
Yahoo!, and you can find out the whole story.
Question: would their scanner be a good deal at a "fire sale" price? Do
the Microtek device drivers work with the Polaroid version?
Bill Stanke
Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
> >The price of Nikon ED4000 is only $150-200 higher than Polaroid SS4000 here.
> >But imaging-resource's result seem a bit favor to SS4000's in resolution. I
> >have lost a bit confidence on Nikon's scanner, I have a LS10 since 93', then
> >the LS2000 in 98 (just a few months before the announce of SS4000). Cost
> >reduction or poor design make the LS2000 like a toy, the mechanical
> >vibration is so serious that affect the picture quality of 2700dpi scan. I
> >have to use 4x multi scan to eliminate the problem, taking the scanner to
> >Nikon service centre does not solve the problem, they just shown me a brand
> >new one that has the same problem and they said it was normal.
> >
> >The problem is more obvious for thicker slides like Velvia and high contrast
> >lines, note the white lines, it should be straight of course:
> >
> >http://www.glink.net.hk/~photogrp/LS2000-2.JPG
> >
> >Actually I still not make up my mind on new scanner, the feeling was so bad
> >to invest on new technology, few years later your device is out dated and
> >value drop to almost zero. Also, I have to wait for a few months after I
> >recovered from the purchase of so many Pen gears :-)
> >
> >C.H.Ling
>
> Judging from feed back on a scanner list I am on, many people are
> having serious problems with the new Nikon scanners. Everything from
> hardware/software problems that cause banding in clear skies to
> inability to get them to work with Windows software. There are also a
> fair number of complaints of poor support from Nikon customer service.
>
> I did a quick search on Google the other day and could find no
> information on Polaroid's financial difficulties that was not at
> least a year old. Is there anything going on currently? Have they
> solved their problems?
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
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