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[OM] Re: Silly Polaroid SprintScan 4000 question

Subject: [OM] Re: Silly Polaroid SprintScan 4000 question
From: whunter <whunterjr@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:02:19 -0500
One response stated what I tried to infer, "Polaroid Corporation" is 
DOA, AMEN.  Your purchase was probably from a 'clearance marketer', a 
species that IS a black hole with NO support of any kind, even if 
licensed to use the Polaroid brand for clearance marketing.  (Your 
invoice or the detailed information re the vendor on your credit card 
invoice should reveal.)  The reason there is no OS X upgrade:   this is 
a clearance item for which there will be NO upgrades for ANY software 
of any ilk.  If you keep, suggest you try my tack.   On my partitioned 
disk, I have a Panther partition for most work and a Jaguar partition 
for booting when I want to use my VERY expensive 5490 HP Scanner for 
which even sillier and more irresponsible HP fails to supply timely 
upgrades.  As you know, depressing the option key at startup provides 
the option to then select other than the default partition for boot.  
Contact off list if you need more info re the partition option.

I responded because I can 'feel' your pain - - bin dar dun dat.  Even 
worse is to throw valuable time after totally lost money.  Believe you  
will find the best options to be:  sell on eBay and purchase a 
supported unit;  or, damn the worthless warranty and try to fix 
yourself.

Finally, full circle as to my lurk mode on this subject essential for a 
'modern' OM lover:  price / performance is a moving target and an 
almost impossible decision for film scanners if money counts.  The 
standard in the sub-commercial products continues to be N'kon with 
improvements in competitors which are 'almost'.........   but not quite 
enough to extract my green.  The high resolution Pacific Image PF 3650 
Pro retains my interest because of the design which negates the N'kon 
requirement to spend another $500 for a roll film scanner accessory.  
Does anyone have direct experience with the latest 3600 x 3600 dpi 
unit????

Bottomline:  consider cutting your losses.
Regards AND empathy,
Bill

On Feb 17, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Humbert Humbert wrote:

> I'll be
> calling Polaroid next. What is disturbing to me is that there is an
> official question space on the Polaroid website that is actually a
> black hole. You can ask all you like, there is no answer.
>
> Worse, they just posted that the SprintScan would not work with Mac OS
> X 10.3 but done so in such vague terms that it is nearly meaningless
> (Yup, I use a Mac).


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