Digital BW, The Print

Cleavis,

I would just add one comment to Jeff's below about the Polaroid 120, which I
also have. It is not full frame along the sides of the medium format
carrier. At least not with my Pentax 67 negs. I am losing 1 to 2mm of image
on each side. Tim Spragens went with the Minolta and we exchanged some files
back and forth. The quality is the same but the Minolta has the glass
carrier available so that you do not have to sacrifice any film area. Other
than that the Polaroid has been a great unit. Nice 35mm scanner too.

I also went the Win 2000 route and recommend it. I have played with XP a bit
now and if the drivers you need are available it looks pretty good too.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "J Greer" <jgpinfo@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Polaroid SprintScan 120...?


> Cleavis,
>
> The film carriers pass through the SS 120 (slots on both ends, you feed
the
> carrier through the front and it moves out the end if needed). The 120
> carrier has markings on it for 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7, and 6x9. You line up a
> frame to fit one of these and that will correspond to a pre-scan size in
> Silverfast. For 6x8, you'd use one of the 6x9 areas and then crop in the
> scanning software. I shoot 6x4.5 and often use one of the larger film size
> areas because it is easier to line up the frame for these and I just crop
> to match the frame size when I scan.
>
> I started using the SS 120 under Win98 SE. I eventually upgraded my
> computer to Win 2000 Pro and it is much more stable. I feel the
> scanner/software is more stable under Win 2000 but I think that is because
> Win98 SE wasn't the best software Microsoft ever rolled out the door and
> not necessarily a problem with the scanner driver or scanning software.
> (Overall, my computer has been much more stable with Win 2000). If you run
> Win 98 SE, be aware that you can't use the Firewire connection since there
> are no scanner drivers for that OS for Firewire. For Win 98 SE, you'll
have
> to use SCSI. I personally didn't notice a big difference between SCSI (Win
> 98 SE) and Firewire (Win 2000).
>
> Any more questions, just ask.
>
> Jeff Greer
>
> At 02:10 AM 05/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >I am finding myself scanning MOSTLY 120 film.  My old Agfa DuoScan is
> >doing just fine for most things, but I get curious.  I recently ruled

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