sattva
Member
Dear all,
I recently found cheap ION film scanners in a local shop and I wonder whether they worth taking a chance on them. I have Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II with VueScan, which is a good scanner, but it takes so long to scan one negative!
Does anyone have a personal experience with ION scanners?
I recently found cheap ION film scanners in a local shop and I wonder whether they worth taking a chance on them. I have Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II with VueScan, which is a good scanner, but it takes so long to scan one negative!
Does anyone have a personal experience with ION scanners?
cabbiinc
Slightly Irregular
I'd say the slides2pc looks like a Reflecta X2. http://www.filmscanner.info/en/ReflectaX2Scan.html
It will be much faster, but the results may not be up to what you expect. According to filmscanner's site http://translate.google.com/transla...Smn&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns translated from German by Google the problem with your Minolta scanner is that it's limited to USB 1.1. If a "normal" scan takes longer than 4 minutes you may look at your USB configuration and devices and try to isolate the scanner from other USB devices. i.e. if you have a USB keyboard and mouse connect those in the back of your PC while connecting the scanner, and just the scanner, to the front of the PC, keeping the scanner on it's own USB bus. It's too bad Minolta didn't see fit to add another higher speed transfer to the computer. FireWire or even SCSI would speed things up a lot for you. But I digress.
If you just want fast and cheap I'm sure these would be fine. If you also want high quality you may want to skip the fast (you've already got that) or cheap (buy a Nikon). Fast, cheap, high quality. Pick any two. If it were me I'd be looking for a scanner with IR dust cleaning as well.
It will be much faster, but the results may not be up to what you expect. According to filmscanner's site http://translate.google.com/transla...Smn&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns translated from German by Google the problem with your Minolta scanner is that it's limited to USB 1.1. If a "normal" scan takes longer than 4 minutes you may look at your USB configuration and devices and try to isolate the scanner from other USB devices. i.e. if you have a USB keyboard and mouse connect those in the back of your PC while connecting the scanner, and just the scanner, to the front of the PC, keeping the scanner on it's own USB bus. It's too bad Minolta didn't see fit to add another higher speed transfer to the computer. FireWire or even SCSI would speed things up a lot for you. But I digress.
If you just want fast and cheap I'm sure these would be fine. If you also want high quality you may want to skip the fast (you've already got that) or cheap (buy a Nikon). Fast, cheap, high quality. Pick any two. If it were me I'd be looking for a scanner with IR dust cleaning as well.
sattva
Member
Looks like scanning didn't progress at the same pace as overall digital imaging during past several years. Still no fast+cheap+good, and things are looking bad when you look at the number of vendors, that are still in the scanning business.
Thank you, cabbiinc!
cabbiinc
Slightly Irregular
Last time I checked a $75 camera didn't produce the highest quality images.