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Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Bought this unit after my second Minolta slide scanner quit
and my HP 7400c developed lines in the scan.
This is one of the few scanners with infrared dust/scratch
mitigation for prints as well as film.
I can load two dozen or more negs into the carrier.
Could do 36 if the negs were cut 6 to the strip.
Quality is good at 4800 dpi and cleaning set to max.
Probabaly not as good as the Minolta when it worked.
I will do some comparisons later.
The neg carrier is susceptible to Newton rings.
This could have been prevented with proper design.
I can eliminate the rings by unserting part of a slide
frame under the negative to support.
Because it is a horizontel surface with a piece of
glass in the optical path, dust is a problem.
The software is a major piece of cruft. It hasn't
crashed yet so it could be worse. The series name is set
before the preview making it difficult to give the
pictures appropriate names.
There is no command to flip or rotate all the images.
What's worst, the command to select the next image is
at the bottom, while the others are at the top.
The JPEG conversion sucks. I have to save in TIFF
and then use a Linux conversions to get a decent
quality JPEG.
and my HP 7400c developed lines in the scan.
This is one of the few scanners with infrared dust/scratch
mitigation for prints as well as film.
I can load two dozen or more negs into the carrier.
Could do 36 if the negs were cut 6 to the strip.
Quality is good at 4800 dpi and cleaning set to max.
Probabaly not as good as the Minolta when it worked.
I will do some comparisons later.
The neg carrier is susceptible to Newton rings.
This could have been prevented with proper design.
I can eliminate the rings by unserting part of a slide
frame under the negative to support.
Because it is a horizontel surface with a piece of
glass in the optical path, dust is a problem.
The software is a major piece of cruft. It hasn't
crashed yet so it could be worse. The series name is set
before the preview making it difficult to give the
pictures appropriate names.
There is no command to flip or rotate all the images.
What's worst, the command to select the next image is
at the bottom, while the others are at the top.
The JPEG conversion sucks. I have to save in TIFF
and then use a Linux conversions to get a decent
quality JPEG.