Jessops film scanners

Has anyone used them?
I won't be using it too edit photos and print, more just too view
negatives and positives..
whats it like with black and white negatives?

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:01:38 +0000, geletine wrote:

Has anyone used them?
I won't be using it too edit photos and print, more just too view
negatives and positives..
whats it like with black and white negatives?

Yes. These are made by Pacific Image Electronics. They are marketed in UK
by Jessops in their own brand name. In other countries, I think, they are
marketed as PrimeFilm models.

I have used the PF3600Pro3 model. It is quite good for scanning both
slides & negatives. Comes with digital ICE, ROC & GEM softwares to remove
dust marks & restoring colour. I have never used the last two - so do not
know how good they are. ICE is pretty useful. It is a manual scanner, so
scanning with it is a time consuming affair. Each slide/negative takes 3-5
minutes. Included in the pack si a copy of Adobe Photoshop II Elements. It
can scan upto 3600 PPI but for viewing on PC screen 600 to 900 PPI would
be adequate. Never tried B&W negatives though.

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Gautam Majumdar wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:01:38 +0000, geletine wrote:

Has anyone used them?
I won't be using it too edit photos and print, more just too view
negatives and positives..
whats it like with black and white negatives?

Yes. These are made by Pacific Image Electronics. They are marketed
in UK
by Jessops in their own brand name. In other countries, I think, they
are
marketed as PrimeFilm models.

I have used the PF3600Pro3 model. It is quite good for scanning both
slides & negatives. Comes with digital ICE, ROC & GEM softwares to
remove
dust marks & restoring colour. I have never used the last two - so do
not
know how good they are. ICE is pretty useful. It is a manual scanner,
so
scanning with it is a time consuming affair. Each slide/negative
takes 3-5
minutes. Included in the pack si a copy of Adobe Photoshop II
Elements. It
can scan upto 3600 PPI but for viewing on PC screen 600 to 900 PPI
would
be adequate. Never tried B&W negatives though.

--

Gautam Majumdar

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they must be big files at 3600 ppi, I know menolta makes a 5400 ppi
film scanner and there are high end scanner that make 8000 ppi or
something not forgetting drum scanners..
thanks for the information

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:26:15 +0000, geletine wrote:


Gautam Majumdar wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:01:38 +0000, geletine wrote:

Has anyone used them?
I won't be using it too edit photos and print, more just too view
negatives and positives.whats it like with black and white negatives?

Yes. These are made by Pacific Image Electronics. They are marketed in
UK by Jessops in their own brand name. In other countries, I think,
they are marketed as PrimeFilm models.

I have used the PF3600Pro3 model. It is quite good for scanning both
slides & negatives. Comes with digital ICE, ROC & GEM softwares to
remove dust marks & restoring colour. I have never used the last two -
so do not know how good they are. ICE is pretty useful. It is a manual
scanner, so scanning with it is a time consuming affair. Each
slide/negative takes 3-5 minutes. Included in the pack si a copy of
Adobe Photoshop II Elements. It can scan upto 3600 PPI but for viewing
on PC screen 600 to 900 PPI would be adequate. Never tried B&W
negatives though.

they must be big files at 3600 ppi, I know menolta makes a 5400 ppi film
scanner and there are high end scanner that make 8000 ppi or something
not forgetting drum scanners.. thanks for the information

At 3600 PPI they are about 2.4 MB (~ 5400 x 3600 pixels). But for just
viewing on the PC screen you need to scan them at 600 PPI which would give
you a file size of ~ 300 KB (900 x 600 pixels).

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Gautam Majumdar

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