Re: filmscanners: Scanner Noise (from Dust in Sprintscan 4000?)

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:13:13 +0100  Steve Greenbank 
(steve@gccl.fsbusiness.co.uk) wrote:

> One particularly interesting thing about the MacWorld review was that the
> Artixscan had most detail but lots of noise and the Polaroid was 
> relatively
> noise free with less detail. As these two machines are effectively the 
> same
> it is the scanning software (and possibly the firmware) that produces
> difference between them.

Polaroid's component selection spec is tighter, too, allegedly, so this may 
be another factor.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
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