RE: filmscanners: My replacement 8000 is banding like the first one :-(

["Jawed Ashraf" <Jawed@cupidity.force9.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of rafeb
> Sent: 20 July 2001 14:11
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: My replacement 8000 is banding like the first
> one :-(
>
>
> At 12:03 PM 7/20/01 +0100, Jawed wrote:
>
>
> >Dare I say it, but I suspect a scanner moving the film is "less accurate"
> than
> >a scanner that moves the scan "head".
>
>
> I disagree, and I'm sure Austin will chime in here too <g>.
>
> All film scanners I've worked with move the film -- except
> for flatbeds with TPUs.  The lamp and CCD stay put.
>
> This applies to:
>
> * Microtek 35t+
> * Polaroid SprintScan Plus
> * Minolta Scan Speed
> * Nikon 8000 ED
> * LeafScan 45
>
> All of the above scanners move the media.  CCD
> and lamp are stationary.
>
> In fact, except for flatbeds posing as film
> scanners, I can't think of any film scanners
> that *don't* work that way.

Well in general I am wrong.  But the LS40 and the LS4000 both move the
CCD/Light, not the film

Jawed