From: Catherine Rogers (crogers@mpx.com.au)
Date: 10/04/03-04:05:29 PM Z
John,
I really enjoyed your note! Thanks. Despite my despair it really made me laugh.
But you don't seem to have solved the Imacon problem either. Amazing really given how much the thing costs. I just wanted to be able to scan larger medium format like 6 x 9cm and 6 x 17cm negs among other things which a nikon ED doesn't do. I feel like a big sucker.
Meanwhile I'll see if there is any reply from the Imacon makers. Maybe it runs better on a Mac. Also, I'll try it with all the lights off - I NEVER thought of that one! Maybe we could try a class action which unites the US and Australia.....
All the best with your praying and chanting and reading.
Thanks again,
Catherine
Catherine,
I have the very same model, the Flextight Photo, and have experienced many of the same problems, including tabby hair (Go to Preferences/Imacon/Peculiarities/Dermatological/Hair, and make sure that Tabby is NOT checked to fix this one).
I had no idea that the grey lines of garbage were caused by static electricity--thank you for that explanation.
I have found (on a Windows device, mind you--I've never even hooked it up to any of our Macs) that a re-install of the software has favorable results on getting it to even turn on and be recognized by the computer (which is, as I understand it, important to scanning). Every time I want to start it up, I re-install the software.
I have also found that reading the 25th Anniversary Edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig (sp?) helped me stare at the menu choices until I could grok the settings for each individual scan while attempting to square and load the negatives into the magnetic carrier with no help at all from the built in light table (which is never quite convenient while loading negatives in to the aforementioned magnetic carrier. . . right?).
I then close out all other programs (this being, as I mentioned, a Windows device) and scan at the highest resolution gleaned from the groking mentioned in the previous paragraph. Then I turn out all the lights, fire up some incense, and fall onto my prayer blanket chanting " Imacon, Imacon, Imacon. . . " (just that way, including the italics).
Several hours later I have occasionally managed to get a full set of decent medium format scans. In the meantime I have usually batch-scanned several dozen rolls of 120 film at higher resolutions through my MicroTek 9800XL, and have edited those babies out for printing.
Mostly what I like about the Imacon is the way it sits on the counter in our production space, not plugged in or hooked up to a computer at all--the way it just sits there looking important in its Imacon-ness! God, that's beautiful.
If it were more than two of us, I would suggest a class action.
I hope this helps, but I know better
--John
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