Online FS9000 black Digital Film 35mm Negative & Slides Scanner
FS9000 black Digital Film 35mm Negative & Slides Scanner Review
Converts all 35mm color / monochrome negatives and Capture prints including 3"x5", 4"x6", and 5"x7", 35mm slides or negative films
Price : $54.99
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FS9000 black Digital Film 35mm Negative & Slides Scanner Feature
- Converts all 35mm color / monochrome negatives and Capture prints including 3"x5", 4"x6", and 5"x7", 35mm slides or negative films
- 5.1MP CMOS sensor provides 10 bits per colour channel for data conversion, and uses fixed focus and automatic exposure control and colour balance,need to connect to a computer.
- Uses three white LED's as a back light source
- Operating system requirement: Windows XP, Vista Compatible.(not compatible with MAC)
- Saves images directly on Computer via USB cable.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Digital photo/negative/slide scanner
By Lee
The photo and slide features worked as promised and were extremely easy to use. Negative film scanning has not been attempted yet. The quality of the unit is very good for the price. 600 slides were scanned and uploaded to a iMac is about 4 hours. The slides were 35 to 55 years old and the quality of many of the slides was not great but the scanner provided acceptable quality digital pictures for most of the poor quality slides.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Slides out of focus and overexposed
By mthain
First off, I will say that this device is very fast. You set the slide or photo in place, hit scan, and it instantly (ie one second) creates a digital image. Flatbed scanners take minutes for each image. So if this device could produce even a reasonable image so quickly, it would be very useful. At the very least, you could use it to quickly scan all your photos or slides, then decide which ones to run through a slow, high quality scanner. However, the quality of the images is so horrible, it isn't useful even for that purpose.
Slides: You snap the slides in the holder, insert them in the scanner, hit scan. The images are hopelessly blurry, and there is no focus adjustment. Occasionally one will be close to in focus, but this is rare, and after attempting about 30 slides, not one was adequately focused. It is as if the lens is not the correct distance from the slide. I attempted slides with various different cases (cardboard, plastic) from various brands, and produced between 1962 and 1986. Not one of them was properly focused. I even attempted removing the slide film from the cardboard. This also didn't help. In addition to the problems with focus, there is also a big problem with brightness (either too bright or too dark). The scanner software does have a brightness setting, from -10 to +10. However, if you lower the brightness to get a face to appear, then other parts of the image become black. If you increase brightness to see the black areas, the images in other parts of the image become overexposed. I have confirmed that all of these problems are not inherent in the slides I'm scanning. After returning this scanner, I purchased the ION Omni Scan, which produced images of all of these same slides with (comparably) perfect focus and brightness, on the first try without adjustment. The bottom line - this scanner is NOT recommended (at all) for slides.
Film: I attempted a few strips of 35 MM film. The plastic holder is not the right size for this, so I had to use scotch tape to get it to hold the film in the right position. The results seemed ok - a little grainy maybe, but generally in focus and without the brightness problems I was having with slides. The film was black and white, so maybe that helped. Like I said though, I only attempted a few of these. It was such an effort to get the film taped in place, it wasn't worth it to pursue this.
Photos: I attempted a number of photos. The focus was more or less okay on many of them. A few were blurry and not fixable. A simple twisting focus knob would be a useful and simple enhancement to this device. Even of those that were in focus, the edges were constantly cut off. So it is only useful if you don't need the outer centimeter of the image. Also, the image is not captured in the proper size, so you have to crop out the part of the plastic frame that appears. Cropping, that is, by opening the jpg file in another software as this is not included in the scanner software. Another major problem is, the plastic frame doesn't securely hold the photo, so several times the photo fell out into the guts of the scanner, and I had to use tweezers to carefully reach in there and retrieve it. I ended up trying about a dozen photos before I gave up. The process was just too much frustration, and the results were too mediocre to keep trying.
The bottom line... this thing is useless. I can't think of a single purpose that it would be useful for. It's cheap, but you will be far better off to spend a little more on something better. I recommend the ION Omni Scan for film and slides. I haven't found a good solution for photos, but I will be attempting a flatbed for them. This scanner went back into it's box and got sent back to the seller. Amazon has a wonderful return policy. However, with insurance and tracking it ends up costing like $15 to send it back, so it's sort of a costly experiment. I don't recommend spending this much to find out that this thing is worthless.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Very Clear Photos, Slides, Negatives
By Jan
This is not the first Scanner that I have bought but it is the best. The ease of use and options that it has is awsome. It has alot of settings on it for different applications. The sizes of photos that you can scan goes from 3x5 to 5x7. Not all of these scanners like this will do that. Also you don't have to have it hooked up to your PC. You just insert your Scan Disk in the slot and away you go.
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