Review 2 of 8
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$499.00
from B&H Photo Summary: Avoid this scanner. It is over-priced for the mediocre quality it offers. It does do some nice scans when it works, but that isn't often.
I have had problems with excessive warm-up times, inability to initialize the hardware from Adobe Photoshop Elements and with the quirky drivers.
The scanner takes forever to warm up and the initializing process takes forever and a day. Often the scanner just sits there blinking. The scanner does not work well with Win XP and my computer often hangs. Lately, when it does initialize and a scan is done, the output will not properly load into Adobe Elements and I get error messages and lose my work. No idea why or what to do since the manual is inadequate. A complete uninstall/reinstall did not fix the problem.
The scanner can produce some very nice scans, but has difficulty with dark scans, which tend to be noisy. Pre-scan adjustments and color corrections are difficult with the tiny viewing screen. The fruity color renditions which sometimes come from the scanner don't look like the original slides. The 2 "bonus" color correction plug-ins are useless spam: they print a company name over your pictures.
This dog don't hunt. Buy something else. Strengths: 1 - Can produce some very good quality scans at larger scan sizes.
2- The bundled Adobe Photoshop Elements is a nice software package. Weaknesses: 1- Excessive scanner warm-up time, blinking lights.
2- Scanner often fails to initialize from the Cyber-View Scan Driver, requires repeated rebooting.
3 - Inadequate manual and documentation.
4 - Inaccurate color balances.
5 - Difficulty with dark slides, noisy.
6- The plug-ins are commercial spam.
7 - This dog don't hunt. Get another hound. Similar Products Used: HP Photo Smart Customer Service: Not used
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