Sounds like they were quoting from the Product literature in describing that equipment. A more perhaps realistic assessment can be found in the reviews on bhphotovideo's site. Example: - - -
Am getting fairly experienced with this scanner now that I have had it for two months.... Here's what I've figured out so far. 1] Universal Slide Tray is the only way to go...only problem is Pacific Image can't keep them in stock...this is the only tray that will not jam...the below mentioned 100 slide carousels jam like crazy...the supplied 50 slide tray jams almost as much, though not quite...as above, the Universal Tray is the only one to use. 2] Annoys the hel out of me when scanning hundreds of slides and the "auto crop" feature misfires and scans way way way more than your slide image..so you have to "crop" that crab out of their in the post scanning process....I'd pay somebody a million dollars if they could solve this issue for me....Help with the Auto Crop...anybody out there have any suggestions... 3] As others have noted...after about 130 scans or so, the scanner just stops....that would be bad enough, but it gets worse...the only way you can get it going again is to de-power it..and have it reboot itself...this takes the better part of five minutes...and then you loose you place in the process...so you've got to do a test preview or two..to be sure you have the next slide in the sequence cued up...to be sure you don't either duplicate the last slide scanned or to make sure you don't skip the next slide to scan...this will also annoy the hel out of you... As you can tell, like most of us...I have thousands of slides to scan..so #2 and #3 above are real issues.... If anybody out there can assist...please post... Finally, I am scanning at 720dpi (a compromise of my time)...and I can do 50 slides in 22 minutes..but then I've got to re-crop 10 of them .. for an additional time issue... - - - end of review Interesting too is the fact that this model is no longer available. The 5000 would seem to be the equiv. new model: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/762308-REG/Pacific_Image_PS5000_PowerSlide_3650_Slides_Scanner.html Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
