Golden Eye 4 Scanner (Old Iron)

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

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On a heavy equipment forum I am on they have a section for obsolete machines called 'old iron.' From what I gather, this may be a discontinued machine...hence it is old iron. In its day, it sounded like a unique kind of scanner that was pretty universal with its zoom lens. But zoom lenses don't always perform as good as fixed lenses.

Does anyone have experience or comments about it?

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True old iron...

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[Dan Baxter]

That machine was obsolete when it was new.

It's a line-sensor machine, but its line-sensor is only 4K which wasn't the industry standard for "4K scanning" and they're notoriously unreliable. I can't think of a later machine that was line-scan, unless we're talking something that already existed like the Scanity, but as an entirely new product/model to the market I think it may have been the last one? The limitations of a fixed line-sensor design are well documented (and CCD vs CMOS).

Honestly though Daniel, it would take you a few seconds of work on Google to get the answers you want. On Digital Vision's own website the latest software release for the Goldeneye scanners is 2018.1.004 released on 2018-03-12. That's seven years ago and Digital Vision is a post production software company.

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Thanks Dan! I did search for it for a short time. That is how I found it by accident. I always like to let the members add their .02. For the historical record so to speak, before they kick off. People are always kicking off and all that history within them is lost. This is a discussion forum after all, so we discuss.

People always say search Google. You can spend hours searching and still not get the answer you can get in a few minutes from a forum.  

Besides that, I don't have a lot of time to spend on any one area, Dan. In addition to photography, I work in a humongous number of areas of archival preservation.

This is just the 'C' section...

 

My problem, Dan, is I have too much curiosity and interests and not enough time, space or $$ to do it all. So, I put some of you to work for me. Thanks again Dan for your input.