45 of 45 people found the following review helpful.
By Coralie McLean
I bought mine from Amazon for about three weeks ago for justunder $200. Considering that ProLab here in Seattle charges $3 perpicture scanned, it seemed like a good deal in the long run.
Myexperience with it so far: the scanner does a great job with photostaken in bright, even sunlight but has a tougher time withhigh-contrast pics -- especially those with big patches of black. Trueblack on a color slide often comes out filled with rainbow splotcheson the scan. (I haven't scanned any color negatives yet.)
On theupside, the scanner comes with Adobe PhotoDeluxe, which is a choppedversion of Photoshop. It's pretty good for fixing defects like theabove. A guy I talked to at Prolab said even the high-end scanner theyuse doesn't render slides/negs perfectly, and that you still need somesort of photo software. So the Tamarack's shortcomings may be commonto all analog-to-digital transfers. PROS:
* Scanner pays for itselfonce you get beyond 60 photos
* Small footprint; about the size of abrick
* Good choice for pics that will end up on the Web
* UsefulAdobe software
CONS:
* Doesn't handle true blacks well
*Documentation is atrocious, very badly translated from Chinese END
45 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
By Faye Ku
If you buy this product (or any other Tamarack scanner), beware! It will not work under Windows 2000, because the company is not supporting it with new drivers. Not only is there no support for the most current operating system, their customer service is nonexistent.
I called to ask for my money back, because I bought this scanner only 2 months ago, and it is essentially useless to me now that I've upgraded my system to Windows 2000 from Windows 98. The President of Tamarack Technologies, Robert Yang, hung up on me after insisting that his product does work under Windows 2000 without any drivers. Even his own technical support people can't fathom how a scanner should work without drivers.
I have a two year old Microtek V310 Scanner, which is no longer on the shelves, but I had absolutely no trouble finding new drivers on their web site. This is the difference between responsible companies and bad companies. As a consumer this review is the only warning you will get!
49 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
By Hong-wei Lin
I like this scanner. The 2400 FS was easy to setup as it simply connects to the USB port. The driver software is easy to use I scanned a preview of a filmstrip with six negatives in 120 seconds, giving a separate image for each picture. Scanning time was 150 seconds for 1200 DPI and 190 seconds for 2400 DPI giving a 21MB file which is more than enough to print to A3 size. If you like well written manuals, you won't like this one, the manual contains information regarding the range of flatbed scanners and software that is not used for scanning slides
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