bmichel

<p>If Aperture works for you now -- it does for me -- you can keep it -- albeit unchanged -- at least through the new OS X (Yosemite) cycle. We simply do not know what OS X Photos capabilities are. I am concerned about any Apple dumbing-down of the capabilities. I could not care less about being able to see all of my photos on my Mac automatically also on my iPhone. Or vice-versa. The preview for iOS 8 at https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/photos/ is not encouraging if that is also the rationale for the OS X incarnation.</p>

<p>I have a Prime Film 7250 Pro3 that looks like an older relative of the Pacific Imaging Prime Film XA. I am scanning old film shot by consumer cameras, so image quality has not been such a big issue for me. My big issue with the scanner may remain for the XA. It is that sometimes the individual frames are not properly detected. This gets frustrating at times. It does not seem to relate to the physical quality of the film strips but to their logic for detecting an image. Once the first image is aligned, one would think that all it needs to do is go down 36+mm and make slight adjustments for the remainder of the film. The preview is much too slow for my purposes as it is at 300 dpi. All I want is a rough image so I can determine whether to scan or not. Perhaps this is remedied. Customer service from PIE was good.<br /> <br /> There are several reviews for both scanners, including mine for the 7250, on B&H.</p>

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<p>The patent goes on to say that the parameters specified are representative of a range and any reasonable values should be part of the claim. It is hard to think that other photographers have not done something like this already. So much for prior art.</p> <p>The economic claim appears to be that the photographs would not require any further processing to eliminate extraneous details such as the edge of the object platform. So, why not simply treat this as a trade secret rather than potentially going after retailer X for similar quality photos as infringement. </p> <p>The whole patent system stinks. Witness the cat fights between Apple and Samsung. Many patents should not have been issued. </p>

<p>1937 Cord</p><div></div>

<p>Using sex to sell is nothing new. Cord went out of business in 1937. </p><div></div>

<p>A few from a visit to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn IN. </p> <p>A mammoth 1932 Duesenberg convertible.</p><div></div>