Regarding mould on slides, if it's eaten into the emulsion your are pretty well stuffed. However I've found most can usually be removed by Pec-12 emulsion cleaner without damaging the slide. I use a used 35mm camera sensor cleaning swab to do this which is lint free, assisted by using a blower and antistatic brush prior to scanning.
Loved the 80’s intro music. This scanner sounds great for people who have slides or still make them. I would love to see a review of their 120 film scanner.
@@DarrylCarey I shoot pretty much pure 120 and slides so its rough because all i can get is a flatbed and the higher end flatbeds are barely better than the budget ones to a degree that the $700 price increase isnt worth it.
The slide scanner says to load the slides upside down and backwards, (emulsion towards the position 50 slide). That gets a digital file that is backwards, so then I have to reverse the image post production. That is hard to do with a JPG without resampling and losing like 50MB of data. What would you recommend for this issue? Ignore that emulsion side recommendation or how to flip a slide without losing quality and also be able to do it in batch in a MAC?
Hi! I know you said you loaded it up and let it go overnight, but can you tell me how long it took to scan a set of 50 slides? I'd like to know exactly how fast it is at 5,000 DPI. Thanks!
Is your software up to date? I had a little trouble the other day when I use the scanner on an older Mac mini, once I updated the software everything was working fine
I have been trying to find a source for this scanner, but find no place to purchase from. The places offering this unit have no stock and have been out of stock for several month. Is there a know reson for this? Like technical problems or a new version coming?
How old are the slides? They look like 1960's or 70's kodachrome from the boxes and scans. I have a few methods that I have used to remove mold/mildew but I would need to see better images of the damage.
hey Darryl, would this scanner crop out some of the image from 127 slides? the slide mount is the same size (2" x 2") as 35mm, but the image frame is closer to 38mm x 38mm. thank you!
You said you were scanning at 500 dpi. I am not sure that is correct as my Epson scanner scans slides at 9600 dpi. 500dpi would produce a small size file. I recently purchased the Nikon 60 mm Micro lens and Nikon ES-2 slide duplicator and can now digitize my slides to 47 megapixel RAW files on my Z7. It takes less than an hour to scan over 100 slides. This seems to be a better way to go for me.
Hi Michael, sorry may have been my English accent. It was 5000 dpi.The ES-2 is a great product and Nikon have been very smart doing this as I know many people that have used the ES-2 and got great results.
@@DarrylCarey I caught "five Hundred" dpi too at 2:14. so 1 mistake. big deal. Most photos are going to be viewed on smart phones other relatively low resolution screens so 5000 is pretty good.
What is the throughput rate? Do you need a computer to interface with it? Windows? Apple? Linux? What storage media can it output to? How many pixels does it output? Does it automatically detect portrait vs landscape or must all the slides be set in one or the other?
do the math. 24 mm x 36 mm (35mm slide image size) x 1968 dpmm (5,000 dpi) x 6 bytes (48 bits per pixel color depth) = ... The specs state an optical max of 10,000 dpi so double that for highest rez unless it can Interpolate (fake it) for more.
hey man is there a way i could get the tiffs of these scans. the city in the photos is Vienna and I live there and I really like the photos. Id like to use a computer background or smt. cheers
Wow, i loooved those pictures. They were still looking amazing. Will you be posting them somewhere to view completely ? Thx for the work Darryl. Stay safe. Grtz from the antipodes.
Hi Darryl. Thanks for the video. Good stuff! When the you say you leave it overnight, how long would you say it takes to digitize the entire cartridge fully loaded with 40 slides? That is, digitizing at 500 dpi into .TIFF files? 5 hrs... 6, 7...? I may be embarking on a project of digitizing about 2,000 family photos and may want to invest in this scanner. Thanks!!!
I'd love the Powerslide but the cost is to much for me...Have loads of slides that I goten from people who were giving me for free, just paying postage...The scanner I'm using is Epson Expression 1680 Pro running with Vuescan...Getting some good images but I have many, many more boxes to process.
Thanks, Looks like a good one. When I went digital 20 years ago, I scanned all my old slides using a kodak batch scanner, then sold it. When my dad died last year, had to give the slides to my brother to do. What I wish for is to have a slide scanner that also copied what is writen on the front and back of the slide, to save the place and date. I have to do that part manually (yuck).
Hi Steve, its nice that you could convert the old slides from your father. I know what you mean about a scanner that can copy the info on the slides, all the slides I scanned have info on them and I really need to add that info the digital files.
@@DarrylCarey I am still looking for a good photo meta information system where I can enter (and search) information about individual photo and movie files and groups of them. I have been meaning to write one for years, but never get around to it. Something open source because I have had too many commercial products go away or become unusable.
*It would be nice to be able to open a scanned slide file and and have the computer transcribe what we read from the slides and other keywords et al as metadata directly into the file.* This scanner does half the work, the computers should do most of the other half.
5 sold on ebay recently ranging from $600 to $1200. Seems the resale value is excellent, higher than the msrp of $900 in some cases. Buy one new, scan your slides, resell it when you are done with it. You won't lose out. Or charge your pals $1/slide until it's paid off.
That seems like a very practical method of scanning all those older generation slides! :) Which side is the mold on, the protective side or the emulsion side?
@@DarrylCarey Find a slide that you can sacrifice and via a q-tip that has some regular water on it see if that removes the mold on the protective side via careful cleaning of the slide. Then let let the slide dry out.
Can you give us an overview of how it works? Does it connect to a computer? Does it come with software? Does it use a USB cable? Where do you set the parameters? Where are the images stored?
A good friend found a few thousand Slides he Father took from long before she was born and they wanted a large fortune to scan them and put them on a CD/DVD. I set up the Slide Projector and Screen my DSLR on a tripod and proceed to copy about 2500 slides. Copied them to my computer, dumped them on a couple of Thumb drives. Now he sister and others have coppys of Dads Family Slides. OH I got a great Pot Roast dinner too.
This video's information could have been conveyed with still images and text to read. It would be helpful to make use of the video format and show the scanner in action, how it connects to a computer, and a brief screen recording of how the software works to answer some of the questions that people have asked. You could cut the time-consuming steps and say how long they actually took at the end of those steps. I watched your part 1 video and that doesn't show the scanner powered on either.
Is this the best 35mm slide scanner that you have tested so far? I have about more than a thousand 35mm slides to scan. Would this be the best machine to do this? Hope you can give some advice.
Been using the scanner for a while now and has never let me down apart from a software crash once. If you a load of slides you can not find better than the PowerSlideX
Hey Charles, wow 3 stars! .. Wonder why it gets such a low rating. Its not cheap, but it does a really good job scanning slides... but sadly thats all it can do is scan slides!
@@DarrylCarey So many problems with scanners that try to do everything: 110 film, 35mm slides, large format slides, cut negatives, 35 mm film strips, etc, so prone to jamming up when you add more capabilities and extra costs for the various adapters.
Are you aware of a scanner that uses a Kodak Carousel? My family has about 10,000 slides that were taken by my father, Master photographer and commercial printer.
This is nothing more than a poorly thought out infomercial with little helpful advice on the scanner, how to use it and the many troubles you run into while trying to scan a slide. It is NOT objective whatsoever. Nor is it as easy as the presenter makes it out to be. In fact all three of his videos are the same generic gibberish restated over and over again with little useful info. We are an art gallery with no fewer than 15 different scanners, and this by far is the most cumbersome and difficult to use. A much better scanner to scan slides is the Epson model. It gives a far superior scan. It also allows for different size scans which the PacificImage model does not. Unfortunately however the Epson is manually set up with 12 slides scanned at a time whereas the PacificImage scanner is auto fed. In theory it looks so easy and fat. In reality it is no such thing. We were hoping to save time when we purchased this unit. We were sadly disappointed. If you are going to buy this model make certain you can return it as most buyers will find that it is NOT worth the cumbersome trouble to get it set up and work properly. Finally, its laughable to actually try out this model for the first time and compare it to the review given by Darryl Carey and how "easy" it is to use. Not easy at all. Actually after a while it becomes a pain.
Regarding mould on slides, if it's eaten into the emulsion your are pretty well stuffed. However I've found most can usually be removed by Pec-12 emulsion cleaner without damaging the slide. I use a used 35mm camera sensor cleaning swab to do this which is lint free, assisted by using a blower and antistatic brush prior to scanning.
Loved the 80’s intro music. This scanner sounds great for people who have slides or still make them. I would love to see a review of their 120 film scanner.
Hey Stephen, whens the op? Sadly they do not make the 120 scanner anymore. Which is a shame as its very hard to a good 120 scanner .
@@DarrylCarey I shoot pretty much pure 120 and slides so its rough because all i can get is a flatbed and the higher end flatbeds are barely better than the budget ones to a degree that the $700 price increase isnt worth it.
@@DarrylCarey It was on Wednesday last week, it went well.
The slide scanner says to load the slides upside down and backwards, (emulsion towards the position 50 slide). That gets a digital file that is backwards, so then I have to reverse the image post production. That is hard to do with a JPG without resampling and losing like 50MB of data. What would you recommend for this issue? Ignore that emulsion side recommendation or how to flip a slide without losing quality and also be able to do it in batch in a MAC?
What software did you use? I am at work and we have the powerslide 3650 machine.
DDY, YOU ARE THE GREATEST: YOU ANSWERED MY PRAYER! I WAS GOING TO BUY AN
EPON SCANNER . THIS WILL DO THE JOB!.
Please let me know how you get on with the Scanner
Hi! I know you said you loaded it up and let it go overnight, but can you tell me how long it took to scan a set of 50 slides? I'd like to know exactly how fast it is at 5,000 DPI. Thanks!
I wanted to know how to use the macne..my computer will mot recognize it software cuts off......did not help me get machine running.
Is your software up to date? I had a little trouble the other day when I use the scanner on an older Mac mini, once I updated the software everything was working fine
Thanks for sharing the slides.
Thanks for watching 😁
I have been trying to find a source for this scanner, but find no place to purchase from. The places offering this unit have no stock and have been out of stock for several month. Is there a know reson for this? Like technical problems or a new version coming?
Sadly I do not think they will be making the scanner anymore
How old are the slides? They look like 1960's or 70's kodachrome from the boxes and scans. I have a few methods that I have used to remove mold/mildew but I would need to see better images of the damage.
Hi Stephanie, the slides are from the 60's and they are kodachrome. Would be great if you could share your method of cleaning the slides
I'd be interested to know also
Where can this scanner be purchased
What software does it use? SilverFast? Vuescan? You mentioned Magic Touch? Is this included or do you have to purchase it separately?
Hi Lisa, the PowerSlideX comes with its own software which works really well. So you do not need to purchase a software
hey Darryl, would this scanner crop out some of the image from 127 slides? the slide mount is the same size (2" x 2") as 35mm, but the image frame is closer to 38mm x 38mm. thank you!
You said you were scanning at 500 dpi. I am not sure that is correct as my Epson scanner scans slides at 9600 dpi. 500dpi would produce a small size file. I recently purchased the Nikon 60 mm Micro lens and Nikon ES-2 slide duplicator and can now digitize my slides to 47 megapixel RAW files on my Z7. It takes less than an hour to scan over 100 slides. This seems to be a better way to go for me.
Hi Michael, sorry may have been my English accent. It was 5000 dpi.The ES-2 is a great product and Nikon have been very smart doing this as I know many people that have used the ES-2 and got great results.
@@DarrylCarey I caught "five Hundred" dpi too at 2:14. so 1 mistake. big deal. Most photos are going to be viewed on smart phones other relatively low resolution screens so 5000 is pretty good.
What is the throughput rate? Do you need a computer to interface with it? Windows? Apple? Linux? What storage media can it output to? How many pixels does it output? Does it automatically detect portrait vs landscape or must all the slides be set in one or the other?
Ha! I just scanned a slide from the 1980s of the same public art in Norway. I recognize the tower and statues at 5:45
Its a very tower, which I really should visit one day
We used to clean 35mm slides with cotton buds and carbon tetrachloride
Thanks Michael
If you save as a TIFF at highest resolution, what is the approximate file size for each scan?
Thanks for the review - I found it very helpful.
do the math. 24 mm x 36 mm (35mm slide image size) x 1968 dpmm (5,000 dpi) x 6 bytes (48 bits per pixel color depth) = ...
The specs state an optical max of 10,000 dpi so double that for highest rez unless it can Interpolate (fake it) for more.
Thank you for your time. Love the review and slides. Could you point me to the comparison you mentioned you were going to do please. Again thanks. JT
Hi Jim, I still waiting on some more slides to arrive and then I will get the video done.
What makes this model different or better than their 5000 model?
hey man is there a way i could get the tiffs of these scans. the city in the photos is Vienna and I live there and I really like the photos. Id like to use a computer background or smt. cheers
Hi Bans, will have some TIFF’s available with my next video
Does VueScan software support it?
Will check that out tomorrow and get back to you 😀
Darryl Carey update?
The music on the slideshow is very early 70s travelogue.
Need to find more tracks like that one
Not to get fussy or critical, but I believe historians and academics refer to the 1970s as The Golden Age of Hall & Oates. 😉
Wow, i loooved those pictures. They were still looking amazing. Will you be posting them somewhere to view completely ?
Thx for the work Darryl. Stay safe. Grtz from the antipodes.
Hi Iggie, hope your well. I was planning on doing a slide show with the photos and uploading to TH-cam.
@@DarrylCarey That would be awesome ! I am already looking forward to it. Thx Darryl !
Hi Darryl. Thanks for the video. Good stuff! When the you say you leave it overnight, how long would you say it takes to digitize the entire cartridge fully loaded with 40 slides? That is, digitizing at 500 dpi into .TIFF files? 5 hrs... 6, 7...? I may be embarking on a project of digitizing about 2,000 family photos and may want to invest in this scanner. Thanks!!!
Why did you “like” this comment but not answer the question?
I'd love the Powerslide but the cost is to much for me...Have loads of slides that I goten from people who were giving me for free, just paying postage...The scanner I'm using is Epson Expression 1680 Pro running with Vuescan...Getting some good images but I have many, many more boxes to process.
Thanks, Looks like a good one. When I went digital 20 years ago, I scanned all my old slides using a kodak batch scanner, then sold it. When my dad died last year, had to give the slides to my brother to do. What I wish for is to have a slide scanner that also copied what is writen on the front and back of the slide, to save the place and date. I have to do that part manually (yuck).
Hi Steve, its nice that you could convert the old slides from your father. I know what you mean about a scanner that can copy the info on the slides, all the slides I scanned have info on them and I really need to add that info the digital files.
@@DarrylCarey I am still looking for a good photo meta information system where I can enter (and search) information about individual photo and movie files and groups of them. I have been meaning to write one for years, but never get around to it. Something open source because I have had too many commercial products go away or become unusable.
*It would be nice to be able to open a scanned slide file and and have the computer transcribe what we read from the slides and other keywords et al as metadata directly into the file.* This scanner does half the work, the computers should do most of the other half.
Do you know where I can buy one of these secondhand?
5 sold on ebay recently ranging from $600 to $1200. Seems the resale value is excellent, higher than the msrp of $900 in some cases. Buy one new, scan your slides, resell it when you are done with it. You won't lose out. Or charge your pals $1/slide until it's paid off.
@@rickpaulos I Norway the price of a new Reflecta Digitdia is about 3000US$. I doubt I will ever see much of that money again if I would ever buy one.
That seems like a very practical method of scanning all those older generation slides! :)
Which side is the mold on, the protective side or the emulsion side?
Hi Sina, it looks like most of them have it on the Protective side
@@DarrylCarey Find a slide that you can sacrifice and via a q-tip that has some regular water on it see if that removes the mold on the protective side via careful cleaning of the slide.
Then let let the slide dry out.
@@DarrylCarey Be careful with the emulsion side as it is more sensetive to damage than the protective side.
Great music!
Can you give us an overview of how it works? Does it connect to a computer? Does it come with software? Does it use a USB cable? Where do you set the parameters? Where are the images stored?
Hi Wayne, I will try and get a video done over the next few weeks
A good friend found a few thousand Slides he Father took from long before she was born and they wanted a large fortune to scan them and put them on a CD/DVD. I set up the Slide Projector and Screen my DSLR on a tripod and proceed to copy about 2500 slides. Copied them to my computer, dumped them on a couple of Thumb drives. Now he sister and others have coppys of Dads Family Slides. OH I got a great Pot Roast dinner too.
That’s great story Hound Dog😀 It’s nice to share the past with the new generation. How was the roast?
@@DarrylCarey Superb thank you
Did you really just made a video about how to use the scanner, without actually using the scanner?
This video's information could have been conveyed with still images and text to read. It would be helpful to make use of the video format and show the scanner in action, how it connects to a computer, and a brief screen recording of how the software works to answer some of the questions that people have asked. You could cut the time-consuming steps and say how long they actually took at the end of those steps. I watched your part 1 video and that doesn't show the scanner powered on either.
Is this the best 35mm slide scanner that you have tested so far? I have about more than a thousand 35mm slides to scan. Would this be the best machine to do this?
Hope you can give some advice.
Been using the scanner for a while now and has never let me down apart from a software crash once. If you a load of slides you can not find better than the PowerSlideX
@@DarrylCarey Thanks so much for the prompt reply. Congratulations on your excellent TH-cam channel
You can’t convince me a $900 scanner with 3 stars is worth the money
Hey Charles, wow 3 stars! .. Wonder why it gets such a low rating. Its not cheap, but it does a really good job scanning slides... but sadly thats all it can do is scan slides!
@@DarrylCarey So many problems with scanners that try to do everything: 110 film, 35mm slides, large format slides, cut negatives, 35 mm film strips, etc, so prone to jamming up when you add more capabilities and extra costs for the various adapters.
Are you aware of a scanner that uses a Kodak Carousel? My family has about 10,000 slides that were taken by my father, Master photographer and commercial printer.
can you send me a link to the Kodak Carousel?
There are many videos on TH-cam that show rigs for using a modified Kodak carousel projector in conjunction with a DSLR with a macro lens.
🙏🏾
This is nothing more than a poorly thought out infomercial with little helpful advice on the scanner, how to use it and the many troubles you run into while trying to scan a slide. It is NOT objective whatsoever. Nor is it as easy as the presenter makes it out to be. In fact all three of his videos are the same generic gibberish restated over and over again with little useful info.
We are an art gallery with no fewer than 15 different scanners, and this by far is the most cumbersome and difficult to use. A much better scanner to scan slides is the Epson model. It gives a far superior scan. It also allows for different size scans which the PacificImage model does not. Unfortunately however the Epson is manually set up with 12 slides scanned at a time whereas the PacificImage scanner is auto fed. In theory it looks so easy and fat. In reality it is no such thing. We were hoping to save time when we purchased this unit. We were sadly disappointed. If you are going to buy this model make certain you can return it as most buyers will find that it is NOT worth the cumbersome trouble to get it set up and work properly.
Finally, its laughable to actually try out this model for the first time and compare it to the review given by Darryl Carey and how "easy" it is to use. Not easy at all. Actually after a while it becomes a pain.
Music on the slide show is pure 70s porno soundtrack.
Porno’s in the 70’s had a soundtrack😭
at $900.00 dollars, no