Digital BW, The Print

I use the Polaroid SS4000 as well and in my opinion it is the best 
sub-$500 scanner on the market.  You may not have the scanner focused 
correctly.  I use the SS4000 with VueScan and you can calibrate the 
focusing, which you may need to do.  As buggy as VueScan tends to be 
it is still much better than the Silverfast AI5.5 or the included 
Polaroid software.

Duncan

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Stan McQueen 
<stan@s...> wrote:
> At 12:49 AM 8/15/2003, you wrote:
> >My experience with the original SS4000 was very disappointing.  I 
purchased
> >a refurbed demo directly from Polaroid and had to sell it in a 
month.
> >Previous to that I was using a low-end Canon 2720.  The Polaroid 
may have
> >had subtley better dmax; but, the 4000 dpi vs the 2700 dpi simply 
didn't
> >matter at all.   The most glaring imperfection of the Polaroid is 
the lack
> >of sharpness.  It was simply no sharper then the Canon 2720, which 
is/was a
> >basic 3.0 dmax/ 2700 dpi scanner.
> 
> I've been using the original SS4000 for well over a year now and it 
looks 
> tack sharp to me. I don't use the Polaroid software, which someone 
else 
> pointed out had a focus bug in early versions. I use Vuescan with 
all three 
> of my scanners (SS4000, 45i, and Epson 2450) and have had no 
problems with 
> focus.
> 
> Stan
> 
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