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my first imacon scan ever.

well - yesterday after endless hours of looking at the same blinking lights, same error mesagges and the same problems, i read the fucking manual that came with the scanner software and discovered i could have installed it the first day it was running. however this realazation came after lots of learning and many things and undrstanding how it all works, stuff i couldent have dont with out buying the wrong adapter twice, spending dozens of hours online looking for nonexting drivers and learning all about scsi from lots of poeple who know nothing about it, even the profound hasselblad guys were useless. in the end it turns out i had all i needed in the box that came with the scanner, even though the seller did not know this, and the internet did not know this, i did not need to buy a new 150$ worth of SCSI firewire adapter (wich ended up not working anyways..) and needed to download absolutly nothing to get the old 1998 scsi firewire adapter to work on my windows xp pc computer, somthing that seemd impossible for all kinds of expert mac users. it did not go with out pain but worked.

so now to the really bad news - i got the scanner working WOO HOO i telled to tess who was having lounch downstairs, after i had rushed up trying to think of why i shouldent kill myself after i have paid so much money, and not been able to use the scanner, but YES i got it going!!!

i imstantly forgot about how bad i felt, and how much time and money i wasted and immidetly got the flexcolor software up and put a negative holder in the scanner and hit the PREVIEW button! the scanner made some noises, green light turned to the yellow then the red busy one flashed, and the holder was starting to get sucked in to the scanner, with its smooth elctrical mototrs running, but oh no after a few seconds of doing its thing a loud banging noise started and the drum was stuck the screen was shoing only intense little colored dots somthing like a korosowa painting from takeshi kitanos hana bi, and with a bit of help form me the drum resetelled in its starting position and the bangning noises stopped.

bottom line - its dead. not that dead, it will cost about 650$ to see whats wrong with it and service it with hasselblad but that will also take another 2-3 weeks.

at the end of all of this i was somewhat releaved that i was at least able to test the scanner even if i foud out it is absolutly not working. this good feeling of relief was later replaced with an anxiety that now i need to not only return this scanner and try to get refunded but also find and buy another scanner. its not going so well at all.nothing new on cgraigs lits as far as apartments...