ALDI have a $99 Digital Film Scanner for sale this week (25 June). It's a Fission 48bit colour scan, 1800dpi optical resolution, frame rate: 2592 X 1680 pixels @ 7.5 fps; one button operation, powered by USB 2.0; includes ArcSoft Photo Impression 6 software.
[most of this means absolutely nothing to me] i have inherited my Dads 35 mm colour slide collection which I would like to digitise. I dont want to pay much, but would like it to a good job. Speed is not an issue.
I would only do a few at a time. From what I have read, I need to check where it stores the files (SD card or???), and some others have a viewing window, andn ideally a medium range scanner would be 2400 – 2900 dpi. Does the DPI determiine the quality of the scan, and what it would like if printed A4 or A3 size. Any tips, help etc would be appreciated. Thanks in anticipation Roishana. Yes I was looking at this to digitise my slides. Since it says it is powered by USB 2.0 (i.e.
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No mains power needed), I would assume it transfers the scanned images directly to the PC. I doubt there's a viewing window at $99, but what do you need one for – just view the image on the PC. I'm not sure how good it is, but in terms of resultion, 2592 x 1680 pixels is what a typical 25mm slide will be when scanned at 1800 dpi (dpi = dots per inch).
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0 Film Scanner for Slides and Photo Negatives. Tevion Film Scanner for Slides and Photo Negatives - 5. Digitalises slides and negatives in seconds. Sep 14, 2017 NimoFilm (NimoFilm.exe. DOWNLOAD Free. I have recently bought a used Tevion FS 5000 film scanner. I cannot get the software to load.
Mutiply these two numers together to get 4.3 megapixels, comparable to a picture taken from a low end digital camera, which you could get decent quality prints from up to about 20 x 30 cm enlargements. BUT – a big caveat – with any film or slide scanner, what matters much more than the scanning resolution is the quality of the light source within the unit.
If the light source is not bright enough, then images will be far too dark. No amount of photoshopping will fix this, as the fine detail will be missing – you can't polish a turd as graphic desigers say. I have had a HP 5470c flatbed scanner for years – it was considered a 'high-end' flatbed in it's time, and will actually scan to 2400 dpi, higher than this film scanner (most flatbeds only do 400-800 dpi). It has an attachment with a separate overhead light to scan 35 mm negatives and or slides, and despite being a higher resolution that this model, the images resulting from scanned slides have been very poor quality – the overhead light source is simply not strong enough. Ok for small snapshots, but just didn't capture enough detail, despite the high resolution.
I found out later that adding a film scanning attachment to a flatbed was more of a marketing gimmick than a useful feature. Dedicated film scanners are generally much more suited to scanning film (duh!), so this one might be worth a punt at 99 bucks. That said, the really good film scanners cost hundreds if not thousands, and it's generally due to the high quality light source, so you'll probably get what you pay for. An alternative, if there's only a few slides, it to get it professionally done – do high quality drum scanning for about 50 cents a slide (I did a few of my best slides and results were much better than my flatbed) ALDI generally have reasonable QPR so I might pick one up – if so I will post a critique here. Oh, i forgot to mention, there are two other DIY alternatives: - If you have a good slide projector and screen, project the slides in a dark room, and take a photo with your digital camera mounted on a tripod.
- If you have a digital SLR with a macro lens, you can buy a slide copier attachment (e.g. An auto bellows), which will enale you to take a pic of the slide using natural light as a background. If you have a good digital camera (preferably a programmable one where you can turn the flash off) then these options will probably produce better quality images that a cheap fim scanner.
The first one will be quicker too as you don't have to load the scanner. Just bought one this morning I am impressed. Get one try it if ya dont like it take it back.You have 60 day return.
Havent got any slides to try yet only did some negatives • 5 Mega Film + Slide (2-in-1) film strip scanner. * Scan colour and monochrome film * One button scanning * Software: ArcSoft Photo Impression 6.0 • 48 bit, 3600 dpi optical resolution. * Image sensor: ¼' inch 5 Mega CMOS sensor (5,174,400 pixels) * Lens: Fno= 6.0 * Half-field Angle= 14,1 degree * Frame Rate (Max): 5M(2592x1680) @ 7.5 fps I left it at 24 bit for jpeg if ya want 48 bit it defaults to tif images. I have inherited my Dads 35 mm colour slide collection which I would like to digitise.
Been there, done it. If you are doing it to show to someone else who knows why he took the picture – beware. From a picture of group she/he would ask you to separate a single face/figure – now what?
A flat bed scanner lets you to create a frame to be scanned, change the scanning resolution and you have what is needed. Helps to chose a scanner which is built like a tank so the scanning movement is continuously precise. If you are in a hurry, find another hobby. Note: over 3000 frames from films (1949 – recent) B/W 60x90, 35mm, half frame, B/W, color and slides.
Took almost a year of few hours daily till it was put on CD. How fast was the scan? The scan itslf is only a few seconds.Just click snapshot about 1 second later click transfer (to a folder you have selected)done in about 5 seconds. I got one today. Worked fine on XP, errors on Vista. Vista driver seems to have problems on my pc.
Don't have time to solve it right now. I have vista premium 32 bit installed fine if you have 64 bit there is a zip folder with 64 bit stuff on it. If you have an earler version of arcsoft photo impression that must be uninstalled The instruction book is very good and eay to understand. From a picture of group she/he would ask you to separate a single face/figure – now what?
A flat bed scanner lets you to create a frame to be scanned, change the scanning resolution and you have what is needed. You can use the software with it to isolate faces etc.But as you say it is time consuming and a flatbed scanner that can do negs and slides would be better but I have time so doesn't bother me. I just open foto with paint.net and crop what I don't want. After playing with mine since thursday I have done slides and negatives. Has diff settings you can use.Doing slides for a friend he is a photography nut and like to play with fotos,so I have it set on 48 bit colour as tiff files.
Each foto is 23.9MB.Set at 24 bit colour and jpeg fotos are around 3MB.1800 DPI. It can be set to 3600 DPI.Foto size is 2592 x 1680. If the condition o the slides and negs is good the fotos are great. He had slides from 1956 and most looked like they were taken today.
I will post some shots tomorow. Ok sorry to necro an old post but this may be interesting for some of you. And rather than start a new one. 85 bux for this one (that looks to be the same as aldi) Image Sensor 1 / 2.5' inch 5 mega CMOS sensor, 5.17 megapixels Operating System Windows XP*, Windows Vista* Lens 4 Glass Elements Focus Range Fixed Focus Scan Quality 1800dpi / 3600dpi (SW Interpolation) Film Strip / Mounted Slides 35 mm Light Source Back Light 3 White LED Frame Rate 2592 x 1680 pixels (7.5 fps) looks like the one above postage looks to be 9 dollars so slightly cheaper than aldi landed. So if you missed out on one may be a good chance to pick yourself up one.
Today only, normal price is 99 so same as aldi too. Krusty, if you're still around I'm curious to know about the 48bit/ 3600 dpi setting as the specs say its 1800dpi. Is the 3600 by interpolation?
Yes 3600 by interpolation. 48 bit the only option is to save as tiff files,which is probably handy if you want to correct blemishes. I have only used the standard settings for jpegs as I am hopeless with foto editing. A trick I found by accident.Had a few slides that when scanned appeared very dark. So I scanned as negatives then used paint.net to reverse colour and they turned out fine.
Pvsyst Crack Free Download. After seeing Krusty's Tweed slide results with the Aldi unit, I bought this Aldi/Fission scanner, but was dissapointed with the results. I might of got a defective unit. After comparing the results with other scanners, I will be returning the unit.
Tested it on some photos/negatives which I took with a film SLR camera 12 years ago. I scanned them in at 24bit colour at Normal and Highest quality,1800dpi and 3600dpi.
The scan images (2-8MB) lacked definition and colour of the corresponding photos. The result looked like someone had taken the pictures with a disposable/VGA camera. I got better results (colour, definition and exposure) by scanning the corresponding photos using a flatbed scanner (Canon MP610) at it's max scan of 600dpi.
I also used my father's Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner (~$1150) on the same negatives and were delighted with the results (at 1200dpi). With a bit of contrast and unsharp masking in photoshop, the results were amazing, like a picture shot with a decent digital camera. Can't wait to borrow this Nikon unit when my father is finished. Here are some pro's and cons of both. The Aldi sensor is about 4 times smaller than the Nikon one.
Aldi Fission Scanner. Pros: - cheap and refundable - quick to scan photos - easy to install and use Cons: - light exposure varied across frame (bright on left and dark on right for negatives, reverse for slides). It's seems like an LED might be out of action. - scan was not in focus and lacked definition. Experimented with flipping the curved negative film and slides, but no difference. - colours washed out. Changing the brightness/colour didn't get acceptable results.
- the frame stops for the negative holder were too far to the left. Had to nudge the holder of it's stops, towards the right to get the picture centered. - photos were cropped on all sides by about 5-10%. - dust and hairs show up in the picture. Photoshop reduced them slightly, at the expense of blurring the picture even more. - colour and brightness controls are hard to use (have to click on the – + buttons 20 times to get decent changes in colour.no sliding bar adjustment).
- the negative holder has a defect/bulge in the plastic near the closing, which causes the top plate to buldge. It was hard to open this holder.
- banding of colours (eg. A blue sky appears as distinct bands of light to dark blue, rather than smooth gradual light to dark blue). (Some of the above cons might be fixed with the correct positioning of the lens/sensor). Nikon Coolscan. Pros: - colours and exposure are great, helped by Nikon's scan tools ROC and DEE. - focus is great with plenty of detail in the scanned picture.
- automatically positions each frame when you insert the film - scan gets all of the picture and more. Need to crop image afterwards to remove black borders, which is better than losing parts of the image as with the Aldi unit. - scan tool ICE automatically get a majority of the dust and scratches as you scan:) Does a far better job than Photoshop. Cons: - expensive - slow (takes about 3 minutes per frame on 1200dpi, as it focuses, corrects exposure, and runs tools like ROC, DEE, ICE & GEM to produce brilliant pictures). I rather it take 3 minutes, then have to spend 10 minutes fixing each picture in photoshop. - complicated to use for the uninitiated, but my father has mastered it, and showed me how to get the best out of the options (ROC, DEE, ICE & GEM).
- it saves photos as tiff (12MB) rather than my specified jpg format. Use photoshop to convert to jpg format (2-3MB). If you only have 100's of photos to scan and you get a good unit like Krusty's, then the Aldi one could foot the bill. But if you have 1000's of photos and are particular on picture quality, then a decent scanner/tools would be better.the expense of the unit would pay itself back in quality results. I might of got a defective unit. Sorry to hear that but agree could be defective.
Possibly 1 led non working. The fixed focus can be a bit of a pain. The aldi unit does what I intended for it and that is make photos from slides and negs and they come out only as good as the slides or negs. The ones I did for a mate were kept in container away from light and heat. Did have a couple of slides that came out very dark or colours were totally washed out,so as an experiment I scanned them as negatives,then used Paint.net to reverse colours and they came out perfect. Happy you can borrow a Coolscan to do the job and you have 60 days to try the aldi unit,then tak back for refund.
Good luck with your projects. Happy you can borrow a Coolscan to do the job and you have 60 days to try the aldi unit,then tak back for refund. Going by you Tweed slide, looks like you got a working one:) I was tempted to see if I can exchange the Aldi unit for a non-defective one, but on seeing how good my dad's nikon was (esp. Removing dust/hairs), and learning that he will finish with it soon, then I will opt for the nikon. Seeing the nikon is 11 times the price, better to utilise it so we can better justify it's cost. Thanks for your posting on the unit and happy scanning, and hope others get working ones. I have kept my negatives in a darken room in the original paper envolopes, so they should be good when it comes time to scan.
Just need to organise a dust free zone and plenty of time for scanning and reminiscing.and figuring out when & where the photos were taken:). A few days ago I purchased a kaiserbaas 'PhotoMaker' from Officeworks. 5.17 MP, 1800 dpi scan (3600 interpolated) with the aim of getting a large number of slides and negatives scanned. It was relatively inexpensive but I have to say the scan quality is so poor that I'm taking the unit back.
Issue is simply out of focus images even though the source material is sharp and in focus. As I have relatively little experience of these low-end photo scanners it's difficult to guage if the unit is actually faulty or whether what I am seeing is typical of this type of scanner. The software installed easily enough and the unit seems easy to operate.
The other comment is the slide and negative carriers are fairly flimsy plastic and I suspect easily broken. Interested to hear of anyone's experiences with this or say the Qpix scanners. A mate bought one of the Qpix ones from Officeworks the other day for $129. I thought 'won't that be a piece of crap'.but I was pleasantly surprised at his results. His slides are in immaculate condition though, not cardboard Kodaks, plastic frames, plastic boxes etc. Has a transformer so they can be done away from the computer, straight to SD card. Anyway Dad's slides aren't as well kept, Kodaks, cardboard frames, cardboard boxes, kept in a shoebox in the shed for 50 years, covered in dust.
Anyway, here's the first two I scanned without even cleaning. And 10 mins photoshop work on the second shot. A newbie, here – I bought the Aldi slide scanner yesterday and found the setup quite simple, however when I fed the negatives thru the scanner it keeps changing in the 'live view' section – like there were bits and pieces of the photo all over the place, like a crazy paved photo! I had to hit snapshot when I got the clearest pic – very hit and miss! Tried to find help on the associated webpage but alas the pdf page wouldn't open! I think there is either a fault in the scanner somewhere or else I'm not doing it properly! Have waited up to 5 mins on each foto but still the live view keeps changing every second!
Krusty I saw your response earlier and you seemd to have good results, I'd like to know if you had similar issues to mine? Any and all help much appreciated, Thanx in advance! Any feedback on how good or bad this model is? It will be interesting to know how many of these Travelers will be returned.There is one that I know of. Terrible terrible machine, washes out slides and negatives even when the brightness is set to low, tried editting them in photo editting software and there is nothing you can do to get the slide quality back after scanning. If that wasn't enough, after scanning 74 of my 260 odd slides and Zero of my thousands of negatives, the hardware simply stopped being recognised.
I spent 5 hours uninstalling software, drivers and the rest, then re-installing.windows couldn't see it and if it could, it reported errors with no known solution. It's my first and definately last experience with cheap electronics from Aldi. Now I'm off to buy something of substantially greater quality. If it's too good to be true, it usually is. Any feedback on how good or bad this model is?
I bought this Traveller TV 6500 Film Scanner recently to test for my uncle and found that it cropped my negatives on the long sides (by about 10-20%). There was also cropping on the short sides, as the negative boarders didn't align with the holder frame. Probably ok for most photos, but not good for shots where you squeezed everything into frame (eg. Car, group of people). This scanner performed better (better lighting, slightly more in focus) than the Fission Scanner I bought in Nov 09, but that one was probably defective (ie.
Non working LED). Still fairly dissappointing when compared with my father's Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner (~$1150), as you would expect for that much money. So, the Traveller scanner is being returned. I'm still waiting to borrow my father's Nikon scanner, as he recently found another 400 slides/negatives to scan himself. I think he will find any excuse to scan old photos, so he can revisit the old days.and I can't blame him:).
Hi Folks Does anyone out there have a Tevion (Aldi) film/slide scanner? I have recently changed my PC, and I just need the driver file. Although evereything else is in the box, the installation CD is missing (of course!) Windows wrongly installs a webcam driver which doesn't work properly.
I have Googled without success, and Tevion/Medion service don't have the file. The model number is FS 5000, dating from about 5 years ago.
I would be very grateful if anyone can help. - And my apology if I should have posted this elsewhere.
ALDI have a $99 Digital Film Scanner for sale this week (25 June). It's a Fission 48bit colour scan, 1800dpi optical resolution, frame rate: 2592 X 1680 pixels @ 7.5 fps; one button operation, powered by USB 2.0; includes ArcSoft Photo Impression 6 software.
[most of this means absolutely nothing to me] i have inherited my Dads 35 mm colour slide collection which I would like to digitise. I dont want to pay much, but would like it to a good job. Speed is not an issue.
I would only do a few at a time. From what I have read, I need to check where it stores the files (SD card or???), and some others have a viewing window, andn ideally a medium range scanner would be 2400 – 2900 dpi. Does the DPI determiine the quality of the scan, and what it would like if printed A4 or A3 size. Any tips, help etc would be appreciated. Thanks in anticipation Roishana. Yes I was looking at this to digitise my slides. Since it says it is powered by USB 2.0 (i.e.
No mains power needed), I would assume it transfers the scanned images directly to the PC. I doubt there's a viewing window at $99, but what do you need one for – just view the image on the PC. I'm not sure how good it is, but in terms of resultion, 2592 x 1680 pixels is what a typical 25mm slide will be when scanned at 1800 dpi (dpi = dots per inch).
The list below is the list of all satellite receivers and their clones. With this index sorted out by clone model, you will probably find which receiver is originally. The 3. Windows Longhorn Professional Build 5048 Iso. 0.6 version of NimoFilm is provided as a free download on our website. The program lies within Photo & Graphics Tools, more precisely Viewers & Editors. This PC software is suitable for 32-bit versions of Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10. The most popular versions of the program 2.0, 1.9 and 1.0.
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Mutiply these two numers together to get 4.3 megapixels, comparable to a picture taken from a low end digital camera, which you could get decent quality prints from up to about 20 x 30 cm enlargements. BUT – a big caveat – with any film or slide scanner, what matters much more than the scanning resolution is the quality of the light source within the unit.
If the light source is not bright enough, then images will be far too dark. No amount of photoshopping will fix this, as the fine detail will be missing – you can't polish a turd as graphic desigers say. I have had a HP 5470c flatbed scanner for years – it was considered a 'high-end' flatbed in it's time, and will actually scan to 2400 dpi, higher than this film scanner (most flatbeds only do 400-800 dpi). It has an attachment with a separate overhead light to scan 35 mm negatives and or slides, and despite being a higher resolution that this model, the images resulting from scanned slides have been very poor quality – the overhead light source is simply not strong enough. Ok for small snapshots, but just didn't capture enough detail, despite the high resolution.
I found out later that adding a film scanning attachment to a flatbed was more of a marketing gimmick than a useful feature. Dedicated film scanners are generally much more suited to scanning film (duh!), so this one might be worth a punt at 99 bucks. That said, the really good film scanners cost hundreds if not thousands, and it's generally due to the high quality light source, so you'll probably get what you pay for. An alternative, if there's only a few slides, it to get it professionally done – do high quality drum scanning for about 50 cents a slide (I did a few of my best slides and results were much better than my flatbed) ALDI generally have reasonable QPR so I might pick one up – if so I will post a critique here. Oh, i forgot to mention, there are two other DIY alternatives: - If you have a good slide projector and screen, project the slides in a dark room, and take a photo with your digital camera mounted on a tripod.
- If you have a digital SLR with a macro lens, you can buy a slide copier attachment (e.g. An auto bellows), which will enale you to take a pic of the slide using natural light as a background. If you have a good digital camera (preferably a programmable one where you can turn the flash off) then these options will probably produce better quality images that a cheap fim scanner.
The first one will be quicker too as you don't have to load the scanner. Just bought one this morning I am impressed. Get one try it if ya dont like it take it back.You have 60 day return.
Havent got any slides to try yet only did some negatives • 5 Mega Film + Slide (2-in-1) film strip scanner. * Scan colour and monochrome film * One button scanning * Software: ArcSoft Photo Impression 6.0 • 48 bit, 3600 dpi optical resolution. * Image sensor: ¼' inch 5 Mega CMOS sensor (5,174,400 pixels) * Lens: Fno= 6.0 * Half-field Angle= 14,1 degree * Frame Rate (Max): 5M(2592x1680) @ 7.5 fps I left it at 24 bit for jpeg if ya want 48 bit it defaults to tif images. I have inherited my Dads 35 mm colour slide collection which I would like to digitise.
Been there, done it. If you are doing it to show to someone else who knows why he took the picture – beware. From a picture of group she/he would ask you to separate a single face/figure – now what?
A flat bed scanner lets you to create a frame to be scanned, change the scanning resolution and you have what is needed. Helps to chose a scanner which is built like a tank so the scanning movement is continuously precise. If you are in a hurry, find another hobby. Note: over 3000 frames from films (1949 – recent) B/W 60x90, 35mm, half frame, B/W, color and slides.
Took almost a year of few hours daily till it was put on CD. How fast was the scan? The scan itslf is only a few seconds.Just click snapshot about 1 second later click transfer (to a folder you have selected)done in about 5 seconds. I got one today. Worked fine on XP, errors on Vista. Vista driver seems to have problems on my pc.
Don't have time to solve it right now. I have vista premium 32 bit installed fine if you have 64 bit there is a zip folder with 64 bit stuff on it. If you have an earler version of arcsoft photo impression that must be uninstalled The instruction book is very good and eay to understand. From a picture of group she/he would ask you to separate a single face/figure – now what?
A flat bed scanner lets you to create a frame to be scanned, change the scanning resolution and you have what is needed. You can use the software with it to isolate faces etc.But as you say it is time consuming and a flatbed scanner that can do negs and slides would be better but I have time so doesn't bother me. I just open foto with paint.net and crop what I don't want. After playing with mine since thursday I have done slides and negatives. Has diff settings you can use.Doing slides for a friend he is a photography nut and like to play with fotos,so I have it set on 48 bit colour as tiff files.
Each foto is 23.9MB.Set at 24 bit colour and jpeg fotos are around 3MB.1800 DPI. It can be set to 3600 DPI.Foto size is 2592 x 1680. If the condition o the slides and negs is good the fotos are great. He had slides from 1956 and most looked like they were taken today.
I will post some shots tomorow. Ok sorry to necro an old post but this may be interesting for some of you. And rather than start a new one. 85 bux for this one (that looks to be the same as aldi) Image Sensor 1 / 2.5' inch 5 mega CMOS sensor, 5.17 megapixels Operating System Windows XP*, Windows Vista* Lens 4 Glass Elements Focus Range Fixed Focus Scan Quality 1800dpi / 3600dpi (SW Interpolation) Film Strip / Mounted Slides 35 mm Light Source Back Light 3 White LED Frame Rate 2592 x 1680 pixels (7.5 fps) looks like the one above postage looks to be 9 dollars so slightly cheaper than aldi landed. So if you missed out on one may be a good chance to pick yourself up one.
Today only, normal price is 99 so same as aldi too. Krusty, if you're still around I'm curious to know about the 48bit/ 3600 dpi setting as the specs say its 1800dpi. Is the 3600 by interpolation?
Yes 3600 by interpolation. 48 bit the only option is to save as tiff files,which is probably handy if you want to correct blemishes. I have only used the standard settings for jpegs as I am hopeless with foto editing. A trick I found by accident.Had a few slides that when scanned appeared very dark. So I scanned as negatives then used paint.net to reverse colour and they turned out fine.
Pvsyst Crack Free Download. After seeing Krusty's Tweed slide results with the Aldi unit, I bought this Aldi/Fission scanner, but was dissapointed with the results. I might of got a defective unit. After comparing the results with other scanners, I will be returning the unit.
Tested it on some photos/negatives which I took with a film SLR camera 12 years ago. I scanned them in at 24bit colour at Normal and Highest quality,1800dpi and 3600dpi.
The scan images (2-8MB) lacked definition and colour of the corresponding photos. The result looked like someone had taken the pictures with a disposable/VGA camera. I got better results (colour, definition and exposure) by scanning the corresponding photos using a flatbed scanner (Canon MP610) at it's max scan of 600dpi.
I also used my father's Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner (~$1150) on the same negatives and were delighted with the results (at 1200dpi). With a bit of contrast and unsharp masking in photoshop, the results were amazing, like a picture shot with a decent digital camera. Can't wait to borrow this Nikon unit when my father is finished. Here are some pro's and cons of both. The Aldi sensor is about 4 times smaller than the Nikon one.
Aldi Fission Scanner. Pros: - cheap and refundable - quick to scan photos - easy to install and use Cons: - light exposure varied across frame (bright on left and dark on right for negatives, reverse for slides). It's seems like an LED might be out of action. - scan was not in focus and lacked definition. Experimented with flipping the curved negative film and slides, but no difference. - colours washed out. Changing the brightness/colour didn't get acceptable results.
- the frame stops for the negative holder were too far to the left. Had to nudge the holder of it's stops, towards the right to get the picture centered. - photos were cropped on all sides by about 5-10%. - dust and hairs show up in the picture. Photoshop reduced them slightly, at the expense of blurring the picture even more. - colour and brightness controls are hard to use (have to click on the – + buttons 20 times to get decent changes in colour.no sliding bar adjustment).
- the negative holder has a defect/bulge in the plastic near the closing, which causes the top plate to buldge. It was hard to open this holder.
- banding of colours (eg. A blue sky appears as distinct bands of light to dark blue, rather than smooth gradual light to dark blue). (Some of the above cons might be fixed with the correct positioning of the lens/sensor). Nikon Coolscan. Pros: - colours and exposure are great, helped by Nikon's scan tools ROC and DEE. - focus is great with plenty of detail in the scanned picture.
- automatically positions each frame when you insert the film - scan gets all of the picture and more. Need to crop image afterwards to remove black borders, which is better than losing parts of the image as with the Aldi unit. - scan tool ICE automatically get a majority of the dust and scratches as you scan:) Does a far better job than Photoshop. Cons: - expensive - slow (takes about 3 minutes per frame on 1200dpi, as it focuses, corrects exposure, and runs tools like ROC, DEE, ICE & GEM to produce brilliant pictures). I rather it take 3 minutes, then have to spend 10 minutes fixing each picture in photoshop. - complicated to use for the uninitiated, but my father has mastered it, and showed me how to get the best out of the options (ROC, DEE, ICE & GEM).
- it saves photos as tiff (12MB) rather than my specified jpg format. Use photoshop to convert to jpg format (2-3MB). If you only have 100's of photos to scan and you get a good unit like Krusty's, then the Aldi one could foot the bill. But if you have 1000's of photos and are particular on picture quality, then a decent scanner/tools would be better.the expense of the unit would pay itself back in quality results. I might of got a defective unit. Sorry to hear that but agree could be defective.
Possibly 1 led non working. The fixed focus can be a bit of a pain. The aldi unit does what I intended for it and that is make photos from slides and negs and they come out only as good as the slides or negs. The ones I did for a mate were kept in container away from light and heat. Did have a couple of slides that came out very dark or colours were totally washed out,so as an experiment I scanned them as negatives,then used Paint.net to reverse colours and they came out perfect. Happy you can borrow a Coolscan to do the job and you have 60 days to try the aldi unit,then tak back for refund.
Good luck with your projects. Happy you can borrow a Coolscan to do the job and you have 60 days to try the aldi unit,then tak back for refund. Going by you Tweed slide, looks like you got a working one:) I was tempted to see if I can exchange the Aldi unit for a non-defective one, but on seeing how good my dad's nikon was (esp. Removing dust/hairs), and learning that he will finish with it soon, then I will opt for the nikon. Seeing the nikon is 11 times the price, better to utilise it so we can better justify it's cost. Thanks for your posting on the unit and happy scanning, and hope others get working ones. I have kept my negatives in a darken room in the original paper envolopes, so they should be good when it comes time to scan.
Just need to organise a dust free zone and plenty of time for scanning and reminiscing.and figuring out when & where the photos were taken:). A few days ago I purchased a kaiserbaas 'PhotoMaker' from Officeworks. 5.17 MP, 1800 dpi scan (3600 interpolated) with the aim of getting a large number of slides and negatives scanned. It was relatively inexpensive but I have to say the scan quality is so poor that I'm taking the unit back.
Issue is simply out of focus images even though the source material is sharp and in focus. As I have relatively little experience of these low-end photo scanners it's difficult to guage if the unit is actually faulty or whether what I am seeing is typical of this type of scanner. The software installed easily enough and the unit seems easy to operate.
The other comment is the slide and negative carriers are fairly flimsy plastic and I suspect easily broken. Interested to hear of anyone's experiences with this or say the Qpix scanners. A mate bought one of the Qpix ones from Officeworks the other day for $129. I thought 'won't that be a piece of crap'.but I was pleasantly surprised at his results. His slides are in immaculate condition though, not cardboard Kodaks, plastic frames, plastic boxes etc. Has a transformer so they can be done away from the computer, straight to SD card. Anyway Dad's slides aren't as well kept, Kodaks, cardboard frames, cardboard boxes, kept in a shoebox in the shed for 50 years, covered in dust.
Anyway, here's the first two I scanned without even cleaning. And 10 mins photoshop work on the second shot. A newbie, here – I bought the Aldi slide scanner yesterday and found the setup quite simple, however when I fed the negatives thru the scanner it keeps changing in the 'live view' section – like there were bits and pieces of the photo all over the place, like a crazy paved photo! I had to hit snapshot when I got the clearest pic – very hit and miss! Tried to find help on the associated webpage but alas the pdf page wouldn't open! I think there is either a fault in the scanner somewhere or else I'm not doing it properly! Have waited up to 5 mins on each foto but still the live view keeps changing every second!
Krusty I saw your response earlier and you seemd to have good results, I'd like to know if you had similar issues to mine? Any and all help much appreciated, Thanx in advance! Any feedback on how good or bad this model is? It will be interesting to know how many of these Travelers will be returned.There is one that I know of. Terrible terrible machine, washes out slides and negatives even when the brightness is set to low, tried editting them in photo editting software and there is nothing you can do to get the slide quality back after scanning. If that wasn't enough, after scanning 74 of my 260 odd slides and Zero of my thousands of negatives, the hardware simply stopped being recognised.
I spent 5 hours uninstalling software, drivers and the rest, then re-installing.windows couldn't see it and if it could, it reported errors with no known solution. It's my first and definately last experience with cheap electronics from Aldi. Now I'm off to buy something of substantially greater quality. If it's too good to be true, it usually is. Any feedback on how good or bad this model is?
I bought this Traveller TV 6500 Film Scanner recently to test for my uncle and found that it cropped my negatives on the long sides (by about 10-20%). There was also cropping on the short sides, as the negative boarders didn't align with the holder frame. Probably ok for most photos, but not good for shots where you squeezed everything into frame (eg. Car, group of people). This scanner performed better (better lighting, slightly more in focus) than the Fission Scanner I bought in Nov 09, but that one was probably defective (ie.
Non working LED). Still fairly dissappointing when compared with my father's Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner (~$1150), as you would expect for that much money. So, the Traveller scanner is being returned. I'm still waiting to borrow my father's Nikon scanner, as he recently found another 400 slides/negatives to scan himself. I think he will find any excuse to scan old photos, so he can revisit the old days.and I can't blame him:).
Hi Folks Does anyone out there have a Tevion (Aldi) film/slide scanner? I have recently changed my PC, and I just need the driver file. Although evereything else is in the box, the installation CD is missing (of course!) Windows wrongly installs a webcam driver which doesn't work properly.
I have Googled without success, and Tevion/Medion service don't have the file. The model number is FS 5000, dating from about 5 years ago.
Tevion Film Scanner Fs 5000 Software Download
I would be very grateful if anyone can help. - And my apology if I should have posted this elsewhere.