best small slide/negative scanner,
April
27, 2010
Easy to use small scanner. Quality
of the scanned images are pretty good. Preview images fast and scan and store
them fast. Happy to have it. Compared to flatbed film scanners it is fast in
scanning slides and film. Trays are easy to use. The limited software supplied
is very good for image rotation and flipping.
Slickest little whiz-bang doo-hickey you ever laid
eyes on! And Fun!,
April 27, 2010
This is one of the slickest products I have ever
used. Got it last night and scanned my 20+ year old wedding photos within the
first few minutes. Yeah, I'm sure you could get slightly better picture quality
from a professional scanner by spending hundreds of dollars more, but I am an
imaging perfectionist and I am thrilled by the bang-for-the-buck of this
scanner. For photos that are only going to be viewed on a computer monitor or as
4x6 or 5x7 photos, this thing is amazing. If you are a professional, looking to
create image files for commercial purposes, this is not your scanner. But if
you're like me, with boxes of deacdes-old 35mm negatives (or slides) that you
simply want to add to your digital collection, this will not disappoint. It is
so fast and easy to use. Stick in an SD card, turn it on, and stick in your
negatives. It scans and saves each one in <5 seconds. The live-view screen is
wonderful, and the fact that you can do all this without a computer is
fantastic. I plan to scan negatives from my sofa, while watching TV tonight.
My only nit-picks are that I don't like the way the USB/power connector
attaches. I may tape it in place so that the leverage of the 90-degree angle
doesn't accidentally break it. The images are coming out just a tad
over-exposed, but not blown out. The best photos may get a minor Lightroom tweak
just to take the exposure down a tiny notch. The color and focus seem just as
good as what the original SLR produced all those years ago. Yeah, it picks up
more dust than you can imagine, but that's hardly the scanner's fault. So far
I've used it on Kodak and Fuji negatives and it adjusts to the differences quite
well, and automatically. (I used to work at a photo lab and we had to program
the big beasts with different "recipes" for the different film stocks, and if
you told it the wrong type, the colors would be off. This little baby seems to
do all that automatically just by optically scanning the film base.) It uses
LEDs for the scan light, so it should last forever. (Of course, once you're done
with your negatives you can always resell it to the next guy.)
I dare
say that it's fun to use, especially seeing all those long-forgotten photos now
becoming accessible again. I was a little hesitant to buy it - how good could it
be for the price? Great decision. Great little product. You can even pay your
kids to do the scanning... it's that easy. BUY IT - you'll really enjoy it.
Wolverine works fine,
April 22,
2010
I am quite satisfied
with the product. It gives good results and is a much faster method of copying
slides than trying to do them on my Epson scanner. My slides are mostly 50 years
or more old. Ove the years, being in and out of slide projectors, various boxes,
etc. many of them have accumulated dust particles, some fingerprints, and other
things that show up on the scan. Bottom line---The scanner does good. The main
problem is to get slides cleaned up enough that a good scan can be made. This is
not a trivial matter for old slides, and is probably going to take one longer
than actually using the scanner.