With over two hundred of online reviews, the Wolverine F2D 35mm Film to Digital Image Converter continuous to impress a lot of users. Many of its reviewers stated that it does a pretty good job. This Wolverine scanner will store images that can be pulled on your computer screen, acting as a memory card. It won’t hold yet it is handy to use. The colors are fairly accurate including flesh tones, and image sharpness and contrast did not seem to be diminished from original photos. You will be able to use this converter right out-of-the-box without any difficulty.
Unfortunately, a few KODAK P460 Photo and Negative scanner reviewers seem to have some issues with consistency, as there appeared to have been some white lines dotting the scanned photos which they also believe may have been caused by dust. One user alleviated this by making sure her photos were dust fee while using the included photo sleeves. Aligning the photos on to the feeder may be trickier for smaller pictures at first go; though repetitive use will get you the hang of it.
Epson Perfection V700 Photo Scanner was able to gain many positive online reviews from its users. Its graphical user interface is straightforward. What will impress you the most is the adjustability of the import controls, especially the ability to adjust F-stops 3 up or down on negative imports, which literally brings most unviable negative images back to life.
As to transparencies, the adjustments provided for their import are also helpful. If you combine this adjustment capability with Photoshop controls, it is truly amazing how much life you can return to images so faded or discolored that they’re almost invisible to the naked eye. Evidently there’s a lot more information left on even the worst of old slides and negatives.
Negative Scanner Reviews – Most users have complaints though. The slide tray is plastic so don’t treat it like it was made out of metal. The software would not load with Windows or Vista. The negative scanner is slow to respond to any click of the mouse for anything. Each slide takes more than a minute to do, probably 1.5 minutes and it is very frustrating.
Almost anyone who has slide has hundreds or thousands of them and this is not the device to purchase. The image quality is downright terrible. The colors are nowhere near correct, and the gamma is off such that each image comes out extremely bright and washed out. Every image needs editing.
Negative Scanner Reviews – Approximately 3% of the users complained that Canon CanoScan 8800F generated noise where there shouldn’t have been any. The flimsy plastic film guide is coming apart and it’s a little tray that holds the negatives while the negatives are being scanned. Canon doesn’t stock them. The software provided is clunky. First, Windows 7 which isn’t even the latest version says the photo software is not compatible, although it does work. You have to download drivers from Canon as well. You have to individually save pictures and locate the folder to save them into. It’s a daunting task for a few thousand pictures. It’s really pathetic that Canon could not be bothered to develop software that’s custom-made for their machine. What’s worse than the software is the scanning speed. To get a decent quality image, you need one minute per picture plus fiddling around with the clunky software to save them.
Negative Scanner Reviews – On the other hand, few users were not pleased with the Epson Perfection V500. Its film holder would not consistently keep the negatives in place. The top sections that hold the film in place have thin sides, and they flex quite a bit, and won’t stay locked into place. The flat bed scanning still works but the part of the scanner in the lid that scans negatives has stopped working and displays an amber light on the scanner and an error message pops up in the Epson Scan software.
