Canon Slide/negative Scanner For Xp

The FSC1VP is a digital film scanner that can scan images at 5.0 Mega pixel quality. With 10 bits per color channel your images will transfer with amazing clarity. The FSC1 also features automatic color balance and exposure control to make the most of all of your 35mm film strips. Included in this package is a 35mm film strip cover and mounted slide cover.

Color: Black Brand: Vupoint Model: VUP FSC1VP Dimensions: 11.00" h x 9.00" w x 5.00" l, 1.00 pounds Scan images at 5.0 Mega pixel quality Automatic color balance and exposure control Built-in back light Scan color or monochrome film and mounted slides 2.0 USB Interface

Most helpful customer reviews 531 of 538 people found the following review helpful. Great physical design, poor software and drivers ... By Mark Although I managed to have used a Canon CanoScan LiDE 500F for scanning old 35mm color and black and white negatives, it was the slow way. Many of the negative was rolled with a low humidity in winter and mounting them in the 500F is the picture adapter was becoming a nightmare. I've worked out how long it took me to assemble and every negative scan, and took a look at my other work (about 2000 negatives and mounted 35 mm slides to the left). It became clear that I have a faster solution to both mounting and scanning speed. Because the 500F is the only film strip image attachment support, had the new unit to support the mounted slides. Moreover, the new device easy to use, allowing me negatives and film strips installed as quickly as possible, compliant with the facilities to srips bent low in humidity protection. The moment I saw the FS-C1-VP VuPoint scanner 35 mm was cheap, simple, and it seemed to do everything. ------ UNIT The 35 mm slides VuPoint scanner is exactly what seems to be a 5-megapixel CCD medium-low range in a plastic case. The house contains a mini lightbox to illuminate the lower 35mm slides / negatives to scan CCD. Just grab your slides or negatives, including fitting them in the hills, and slide the trays into the scanner unit. Each window tray snaps gently into place to help adapt the slide / negative in the CCD. The hills are very good at keeping negative curled safely. (Very curly / curly can introduce negative shadow during the scan. To completely relax the slide, hold the tray with a steaming pot for about 10 seconds.) VuPoint scanner Build quality is quite high. Although made of plastic, it has a very nice feeling (similar to a "satin" telephone) and mounted slides and filmstrip hills seem durable and fits well with the device as the device is powered by an attached 4 foot long USB 2.0-cable so it has a very small footprint. The scanner is also insensitive to position, use almost anywhere, from any angle (sideways on his lap, in bed, etc.) makes it more likely you will get the scan job. SCANNING ------ I installed the scanner driver only, no image editing software that came with the device (PhotoImpression 6) and instead to scan directly into Photoshop CS3. With this method I was able to scan only "stupid" at the highest resolution of 2592x1680. For negatives, which means you have to invert the image after you scan and then perform color correction / adjust levels / Unsharp Masking / etc Mounted slides or a positive film scanners STIP, but will still need additional filters applied for best results if you scan in CS3, create actions to manage typical archetypes drag (negative, positive, negative, blur, scratches desaturated slide positive and dust, etc.). In practice, the scan driver that shows a preview image of the low rate of the CCD. If you wait between 5 and 15 seconds, the light levels in the image of balance and be ready to scan. A sequence of positive results, with very different levels of light push your wait time at most. In extreme cases, you can wait 45 seconds + to balance decent. To begin the analysis is to press the button 'Copy' on the device, or click on the "snapshot" from the software of the scanner driver. Snapshots are fast, but once you have a snapshot, then you need to "transfer" the image of CS3. It can take up to 30 seconds per image. The driver contains 12 strokes. Since this 'buffer' is complete, you need to transfer pictures from CS3 The driver takes a fair amount of CPU, while the forecast - taking 60% CPU on a laptop Pentium M 1 GHz CPU and 40% on a P4 2GHz. I imagine the CPU would be about 20% on a dual core (proof later) ..