Mike, Your information is most helpful. I may write you with more questions concerning film recorders, if that is ok with you, once I actually get the thing going and get some actual finished products back to examine.
What I am calling the "lamp" you are more accurrately calling the "CRT;" and yes it is a 3 or 3.5 inch CRT as opposed to the 7" ones on the more modern recorders, including the HR6000 from what I am told. I am still in the process of testing it out with film to see what it produces and what problems I might face; but I suspect that you are right about it being primarily good for presentational graphics more than serious images. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Kersenbrock Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 8:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: 3 year wait Op's wrote: > > Laurie Solomon wrote: > > > Arthur, > > I make no claims to expertise or to being even all that knowledgable with > > respect to film recorders. I recently picked up cheap on Ebay a Polaroid > > Digital Palette 5000s film recorder to play araound with and learn something > > about film recorders and recording. That's not the best one, but it works okay. I've a 3000, a 5000, a 5000s, and a 7000. I've used both 5000's and now use the 7000. > It is obsolete and 35mm; and may have > > been a bad buy since it looks as if the lamp inside may be going which may > > cost a couple of hundred to fix or replace. Doesn't have a "lamp", it has a 3" CRT in it. > It claims to be a 4K recorder, > > but I suspect that it is probably more accurately a 2K + recorder only > > capable at its maximum 4K setting of nominally achieving 4K. No, although "addressable" as a 4K, it's quite a bit less as you suggest. However, it's not really "bad" unless you're looking for sharply focused images. You'll get images but a bit fuzzy if critically inspected. Depends what one is using it for. The 5000/500s is made for doing power-point sorts of images, and it'll do those great. Photos it'll do "okay" but as I said, not crisp/sharp. Okay for presentations or family get-togethers, probably less good for critical uses. It does *much* better (from what I've seen) than taking 35mm photographs of one's computer monitor screen's CRT. :-) > > Laurie > > As I mentioned before the CRT in these recorders are about 2" and have never given a sharp They're rated as being 3" > image - the newer FRecorders are 7" tubes. Which is what my Polaroid 7000 is. Mike K. > > Rob > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
