Review 2 of 3
Price Paid:
$699.00
from B & H Photo Summary: This product just plain doesn't cut it for what I had in mind. I've taken on the job of scanning my parents' 35mm slides (literally thousands of slides on probably 30 - 40 circular carousels). Product information says it will work with carousels. It doesn't. If all I had to do was flop in a carousel and use 'scan to file' then I probably might have kept it. However, when I have to take the slides out of the carousel to put them into the magazine and then screw that process up by putting them in the wrong way, well, that adds way more human intervention than I wanted to provide. Strengths: Works pretty well with the slide magazine provided. The slide quality is pretty good at the highest setting (3600). I didn't have any trouble installing the software or getting the device to interface properly with the computer. Weaknesses: Like I said it don't work with the carousel. The software is pretty limited. One thing the software does is analyze and flip the image on its side (90 degrees) if it thinks it needs to. Sometimes it makes this call correctly but more often it performs this operation on images that don't need it (i.e. images with a 'landscape' orientation). When this happens it truncates the sides of the images. It does this automatically and it is not something you can just 'turn off'.
Using it at the lower resolutions, while faster, produces results that just plain suck. Filling up the 50-slide magazine and scanning all 50 (using multi-scan to file) will take a minimum of 2.5 hours assuming nothing goes wrong (like a slide jamming).
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