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394 of 397 humans found the following review helpful.
You get what you recompense for . . .
By D. Luke
Recently ended up with various thousand family 35 mm slides and promised my brothers I would scan the slides and formulate a digital collection for each one of them. Received the scanner and after a bit of reading, had the slide scanner up and working comparatively quickly. Previously I scanned on an HP Scanjet 5470 and the routine was slow and not the best copy quality. I am finding that of the slides I have scanned so far with the Wolverine scanner, they are all coming out on the dark side and require work to optimize contrast, etc. Many of the slides that are winter shots are washing out as if the light source in the scanner is not consistent all over the surface. No amount of processing with software has, so far, taken the scanned images to an satisfactory image. If I had to do it over, I would invest in a better scanner.
300 of 306 persons found the following review helpful.
Does it for me, outstanding if you may adjust bad photos yourself.
By bblhed
First I need to say the reason I purchased this scanner was so that I may scan film shot on an odd format 35mm narrow frame camera so I just necessitated a scanner that could scan negatives that I could do my post work on later if I necessitated to. This scanner does that with the brutal honestness that I necessitated so that I may repair my errors in post and also learn from them. If you took a crappy picture with your camera this thing will render a crappy scan. If your scan is dark or light blame your camera work not the scanner. I ran a roll of largely overexposed photos through this scanner and the correctly exposed photos looked great, the overexposed photos, not so much. A little post magic with Gimp (free photo processing software, very hands on) and I have a outstanding set of pictures and recognise what I did wrong. I had a local one hour place procedure and scan this same roll for me, and all the photos they did looked great, thy admitted that they “enhanced” them. This scanner shows you what you in truth shot so you may rectify it next time.
So how easy is it to use? From the time I stuck my knife into the tape on the packing box to the time I scanned my primary frame only reading the instructions to around page three was with regards to 6 minuets. It took me with regards to 20 min to scan an entire uncut roll of film and get it onto my computer. The unit shows a live view of what you are regarding to scan so it is easy to position your film, the carrier centers it top to bottom, you have to do left to right. I still have not read the instructions beyond page three, and with a little adjusting on some of my photos they look great, next time I will expose a little better and possibly get rid of a lot of post work, tat was an hour that taught me the value of a light meter.
Some things to note. What is not in the box. There is no SD card, and no TV connecting cable but for $109 who cares I have SD cards, and the built in screen is good sufficient for the scanning work. The unit is compact, it is littler than 4 VHS tapes. The film holder does a nice occupation keeping the film. I didn’t use the slide holder so I don’t know. Like it says, you do not need to hook this to a computer so if you have power you may scan any place you want to like on a table with room to put things and not at a computer desk with little or no room.
Overall unless it dies numerous time soon I’m actually happy with it.
133 of 135 persons found the following review helpful.
Good for the money
By Sparkey
Received this today and within 20 min. was scanning slides. After scanning to SD card 10 slides, took card to printer. The prints were rather good. Since I have 2000+ slides to scan did not want to use the Epson flat scanner to do this–takes way too long to scan slides. Some slides date back to my Grandma taking pictures in 1948. If the slide is on the dark side it will come out a little darker than origional but is still okay.
Highly commend this for the amature person who is not looking for perfection. I am happy with the results. At least you may now send digitized photos from the long past to your friends and relatives by e mail.
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