Do we have a grudge against Microtek?
No reason too although their dealer in Florida refused to loan a scanner or even give a demo unless we paid in advance for their time (they probably have been burned too often by people wanting a demo and then buying the same model, at less cost, on the Internet). Yes, if the Microtek dealer had been more pleasant and if we had a demo it would have been possible to learn the benefits of the Microtek scanner. Equally naturally, if Heidelberg sends us a LinoColor scanner then we have an opportunity to learn all the capabilities of this scanner. It’s kind of difficult to feature a scanner unless we physically have it in our facility. A 30 day loan is not much help when our reviews last for over a year (actually the reviews stay posted for the life expectation of a model, which is about 2 to 3 years). FLAAR is an institute dedicated to evaluations of what scanners are appropriate to handle our archive of 50,000 35mm slides. We spent two million dollars over several decades doing the photog
