Introducing the ""New-In-Box"" ScanPro Digital Film Scanner. A cheap way to digitize your 35mm films -negative and slides. An easy way to bring back your old memory. A HOME SCANNER IS THE CONVENIENT WAY TO TURN YOUR OLD NEGATIVES AND SLIDES INTO AN ORGANISED DIGITAL PHOTO LIBRARY. Have you ever thought about how to keep the perfect quality of your old photographs forever? Scanning all the prints too time-consuming and processing the films in a lab too expensive? Then here comes a unique film scanner right for you: ScanPro FilmScanner FS-1000. ScanPro FilmScanner FS-1000 is a small device able to work with both negative and positive classic 35mm film. It's equipped with two adaptors - for strips of 6 frames or 3 slides. Scanner is connected to the PC via USB port and comes with a CD containing drivers and a user application. With it you can easily check about how the final output will look like and adjust some image correction settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, hue etc.). The device features a 5mpix scanning chip (i.e. 2592x1680 pixels, 3600 dpi) producing the images large enough to be printed on a A4 page! Convert your old slides and film negatives into digital images with the innovative technology of the Slide & Film Digital Scanner, letting you easily preserve your memories without relying on costly conversion services. It's easy to use, just place slides & negatives into the 2 trays provided that will align them properly, then the touch of a button scans the image instantly onto your computer. For photo transfers and power it utilizes a USB cable that plugs into a PC and includes software to edit, crop and resize your slides as well as convert your negatives into positives. This device uses a USB cable that plugs into a PC running Windows XP (requires USB 2.0)
Features 10 bits per color channel. 1800 dpi image enhancement. 2.0 USB interface. 5MP CMOS sensor provides 10 bits per color channel for data conversion, and uses fixed focus and automatic exposure control and color balance, resulting in clear digital images without the loss of resolution. Built-in back light. Converts all 35mm color / monochrome negatives and mounted slides to digital at the touch of a button. Each negative or slide takes less than a second to scan and download into a digital file to print, copy to CD or store. Ideal for safeguarding images from weddings, holidays and treasured family moments. Includes software for enhancing image quality. Scan color or monochrome film and mounted slides Scan Method: Single Pass. Scans images and provides super sharp, high resolution images up to 3,600 dpi and uses three white LED's as a back light source.
My local Macy's had this on clearance a couple months ago for $19.99. My experience with it is that it's worth about $9.99 - it does scan as reported, but it is SLOW and the plastic holder for slides/negatives is flimsy and allows the slides/negatives to shift slightly as you load it into the scanner. I was disappointed with the unit, but I was trying to scan a fairly large number of slides; YMMV if you only have a few you need to work with.
I've been looking for something like this but I also have a good number of slides to do so I think I'll keep looking and buy a better model and then eBay it...
Thanks for posting this, MISTERCHEAP. A good and useful post. Green from me!
On the item itself:
I don't own one of these. When I faced this problem some years back I bought a couple of Polaroid film scanners on eBay. These are pro scanners, very well made. They do a nice job, as do the pro scanners manufactured by other brand name companies.
But brand name, pro scanners are FAR more expensive bought new that this scanner. That's something to bear in mind. And that's the reason I bought my scanners used!
guardian44 said: Thanks for posting this, MISTERCHEAP. A good and useful post. Green from me!
On the item itself:
I don't own one of these. When I faced this problem some years back I bought a couple of Polaroid film scanners on eBay. These are pro scanners, very well made. They do a nice job, as do the pro scanners manufactured by other brand name companies.
But brand name, pro scanners are FAR more expensive bought new that this scanner. That's something to bear in mind. And that's the reason I bought my scanners used!
thanks Guardian
if nothing else, maybe this thread will help people from the discussion of experiences and products as much as the item in the OP.
The quality of the scans will not be great. 1800dpi (don't fall for interpolated trap) and only 10 bits depth. I had an Expensive Canon film scanner with 2800dpi and supposedly 10 biys depth and it was very bad at underexposed slides.
besides the issue of the quality of the scan, good scans take time and effort. If you need many scans, you would probably be better off with a service, which charge around $1 per slide. I would go with a local service, which you can drop them off, instead of mailing/shipping these unique memories and risk them getting lost.
If you can take the risk, ScanCafe did a good job for me. They were very high quality scans resolution wise - very detailed. I got my negatives scanned at the local Wolfe Camera first, as well. These were wedding pictures, so my wife was very hesitant to send them in the mail, but at least I had the Wolfe Camera scan first. I think the Wolfe Camera was a little more expensive. I was happier with the color in the Wolfe Camera scans, but the ScanCafe had much more detail. I'd be happy with the high detail and then correct the color in photoshop. ScanCafe is a good deal if you have a large set of scans to do. These were medium format, so I couldn't do them in a regular scanner. One cool thing about ScanCafe is you can send them a box with a random assortment of scans and pictures and they will sort and hand scan them. They do a good job as far as dust, etc. You estimate what's in the box and then pay for half of it. After they do the scans you preview them on their website and pick the ones you want sent to you. If you pick more than you paid for, you just pay the difference. Then they ship the originals and the scans on CD back to you. I feel pretty good about the shipping, UPS with tracking. They do ship truckloads of jobs overseas to do the actual work. I assume they are very detailed for that shipment or they wouldn't be in business very long.
wileyworld
Senior Member
posted: Jul. 28, 2009 @ 5:50p
aleck said: You can probably find a bunch of old scanners with slide adapters for half this price on your local Craig's list.
Those are poor quality compared to a dedicated film scanner. If you want a quality job of digitizing those negatives and slides, you don't want to shortchange yourself here. Features like backlighting, vacuum to keep negative firmly in place, plus high resolution dpi are worth spending a bit more for the value.
I have a Pacific Digital film scanner ($100+) that is basically junk: slow, colors off, focus so-so. After scanning it's into Photoshop with the file for improvements. I've had extended access to an Epson Pro ($800) and it was a pleasure to use but was a little slow at high dpis. I've heard great things about Scan Cafe so I second that as an option. It's probably the best choice unless you have the time and equipment to get it right yourself.
Corkypa
Senior Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2009 @ 12:31a
I will also recommend ScanCafe. I do have a very good Nikon slide scanner, but I also have many thousands of slides and realized it would be incredibly time-consuming to scan them all - dust removal, color correction and all the stuff that goes with doing a good job really ads up. It would consume my free time for years to come.
I sent a selected set of slides to several services, and ScanCafe's came out best. If you have a lot of slides to do, it is worth spending a few bucks to run the experiment. I go for the 4000 dpi and the pro version (raw + jpg). One of their competitors argued that resolution was uselessly high, but the difference was pretty clear when I compared the results.
An update my experience with ScanCafe... [thanks kshowtime!]
I sent @ 1000 + negatives to be scanned. From the date I mailed them until the date I received the DVDs - @ 60 days.
I'm impressed with the quality of the work and the price (when compared to the time of doing it myself). My only complaint is that the DVDs they sent the scanned photos back on are CHEAP and covered in fingerprints. I had to soap & water rinse and (carefully) wash the prints off of the disks so that my computer could read all of the photos. But execept for the crappy quality of the returned DVDs - I loved the service.
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