鶹
Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2015This is a simple. joyous scanner to use. The software is well thought out and very powerful. The ability to clean up files automatically while scanned (dust, scratches, etc...) is well executed with the hardware in the scanner. I started using it primarily to take 4000 old colour negatives and convert to digital. You can load up to 12 at a time if you have them in 6 negative strips. The scanning time is about 5 minutes per negative if you are using relatively high resolution (3200) and ICE technology to clean up the dust and small scratches on the negatives. The results were extremely impressive. With my set up each TIFF file was about 30MB and ready for import into Lightroom for further improvement. For regular printed photographs it is average and produces OK results. Try and find your negatives if you can. I also did 300 very old (50+ year old) family colour slides. They were in very poor shape and very faded. The recovery ability of this scanning software was amazing, particularly in the colour recovery. It was wonderful though to see the different colour tones of the old slide films of yesteryear. While tedious to do (I did about 100 per day while puttering around during late winter), you will never regret having converted them into digital for viewing at your leisure or with an electronic picture frame. If you use new high MP (24-36) digital cameras and appropriate lenses you will notice how good these new cameras are compared to old film cameras and lenses if you had only consumer grade equipment many years ago, particularly in the area of sharpness at 100%. I use it regularly now for scanning B+W film shooting I do now and avoiding the contact sheet step. I can review all the negatives and select the best ones for printing (via light and chemicals the old fashioned way) much better than the old test sheets. If you wish you can instead print them digitally on a high quality photographic printer (yours or in store). It will also act as a regular scanner for documents etc... All this at an unbelievably low price and great 鶹 service.
