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Streamlined efficiency was our goal, and the FS-C05 does not disappoint. The ImageLab FS-5C05 Slide and Negative Scanner was designed with the user in mind. Gone are the days where scanning was dependent upon a lengthy process requiring the use of your personal computer. The FS-5C05 is a standalone unit that can scan your most precious memories, then save them directly to an SD memory card in seconds - no software required. Then take that SD Card to a commercial print kiosk, or your favorite imaging site and easily upload your archived images. You may even export to your computer for further editing options, should you choose via the included USB cable. Whether it be 35MM film or a stack of your treasured slides, the FS-C05’s 5 Megapixel Resolution will be sure to transfer them to the highest digital quality. To make it even more convenient, you may preview your progress after each and every scan on the Built-in LCD Screen. Using battery power, feel free to scan your negatives in the middle of your living room or the like, with no wires or messy cables to deal with. The ImageLab FS-C05 will allow photo archiving to be a fast and reliable tool that delivers the highest quality.
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Technical Details
- 5 Megapixel/3600dpi Resolution- Save to an SD Card (store up to 2,000 photos)
- Exports directly to computer (USB Cable provided)
- No additional hardware or software required to export images
- High Resolutions images are capable of 20 x 30 enlargement
- High Resolutions images are capable of 20? x 30? enlargement
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By S. Stuart
I've tried 3 or 4 of there over the years. This one works great. Simple. Fast. Easy.
I sit and watch TV while I scan my thousands of slides.
By David S. Gendell (Annapolis, MD)
This item is quite good and reasonably priced. It arrived on time and in perfect condition. The main problem is that it does not include the whole slide in the scan. You can move the slide to some extent to get the important part and you can put vertically oriented slides in the holder horizontally and then rotate them with you photo software, but you do loose some of closly cropped slides. Some loss in quality in the scanned image, but overall quite acceptable. If you have a lot of slides to scanned it certainly beats the high prices of having a photo shop scan them.
By CC
The Imagelab scanner cropped about 1/8" off both edges of the images (both on the scanner screen and the image file) when I scanned slides, even though I carefully followed all directions and centered my slide in the tray. This is a significant defect in the design of the product, considering the images did not fill the entire width of the slide. The response from Imagelab was, "Due to the nature of the fixed sensor some cropping may occur." I returned the defective scanner and received a replacement. The replacement scanner crops less image from the slide than the first, but the results are unacceptable.
By David Boyes (Ashburn, VA USA)
Overall, the scanner works exactly as documented and is a good value. I've identified only a few problems so far, and one is mostly a minor issue of needing to do a little extra work. I bought it to convert my mother in laws enormous (70K+) slide collection to digital form before the media failed completely.
On the positive side, there's not a lot that can go wrong with this device. It's a straightforward digital camera/projector device, and most modern operating systems recognize it immediately as a digital camera and let you use it with zero software installation. I plugged it into my Macbook and it immediately "just worked". Images are reasonably sized and quite sharp (assuming the original slide is in moderately good shape). The ability to put an SD card in and just scan until it's full is very nice (although supporting a SD card larger than 2G would be nice -- the 2G ones are getting hard to find). If you're doing a lot of slides, I'd suggest having a friend help -- with two people (one loading the trays and one scanning), you can do about 2 slides per minute.
The problems I mentioned above are: 1) if you have the older thicker plastic slide carriers (a hard plastic frame around the slide film), it's difficult to fit them into the trays, and then to push the trays through the scanner. The cardboard slide carriers work fine. Second, 2) the slide tray design forces the slides to be inserted with the long axis of the slide going from left to right. This means that if you have a lot of images that are taller (vertically oriented), you'll have to do a fair amount of rotating images in iPhoto or similar programs to get everything right side up. 3) it's hard to get the slides positioned correctly so that the top or bottom of the image isn't cut off. There are registration notches on the slide trays, but they don't seem to be really calibrated to the position of the lens. You eventually get the hang of it as you work with it, but it would be really nice if the notches matched the image field correctly.
I'm about 35K slides into the project, and so far it's held up pretty well. I'd say it's a keeper.
By Francis A. Nellis
The product is easy to use and functioned reliably for as much as I used it before I returned it. The images were dark in the corners and there was dust some where internal to the machine. There was the same dust specs in the same location on every slide I scanned.
A little better light source and better quality assurance would make this a great product. But, as it is it is not worth it.
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