I am very interested in this but I am concerned that the prior versions apparently had trouble with paper slides? Jamming frequent. Is that an issue with this version in your experience ?
I have had the past few models and when it comes to the really thin slides, yes they did jam. I haven’t come across the thin slides for this model yet so I don’t know how it would handle them.
hey im from israel ive got the powerslide x but the scanner keep scan only first slide no matter what do i do its keep scanning same slide the magazine isnt moving foroward with each scan, can you try and help me solved it? amir
Do you have the cartridge right side up? If you have it upside down, it will not feed. Make sure that the you have the number "1" in by the arm. When I start batch recordings, I have to manually put in the first slide and then start the batch. If that does not work then you may have to return it for a new one.
I don't know what you mean when you say 600 spi (samples per inch) is "archival." For 35mm slides, this gives you an image that can be printed at 72mm x 48mm at 300 ppi. That's a very small print! In my opinion, a good archival scan should be done at 2400 spi. (PS: I don't use the term dpi because it doesn't apply to this media.)
@@TheMediaNerdMT If I understand you correctly, you are saying that your "digital archive" files from 35mm film are only 600 x 900 pixels or 0.54 Megapixels. This almost amounts to merely having thumbnails of your scans. As a personal project, I'm doing my "family" images at 2160 x 1440 pixels or 3.11 Megapixels, and I consider this to be a bare minimum for archiving. For my business clients, I use 4320 x 2880 pixels (12.4 Megapixels) for 35mm archiving.
What do you suggest and what does it matter? They get sprayed, scanned a few minutes later then the client throws all the slides away shortly after. I don't see any type of residue after giving the slides a quick shot. Like your comment, I get comments about how not to do something right before a digital scan because it will hurt the media in the long run. My clients throw the media away as soon as they get the digital files (that is why they get them digitized so they don't have to keep them) so, is the corrupt media like the Freon coated slides going to hurt the trash someway that I don't know about?
@@TheMediaNerdMT I never used canned air to blow away dust. I simply squeeze a rubber "bulb-style" blower that emits a nice blast of air. Great for building hand strength as well. 😊
I am very interested in this but I am concerned that the prior versions apparently had trouble with paper slides? Jamming frequent. Is that an issue with this version in your experience ?
I have had the past few models and when it comes to the really thin slides, yes they did jam. I haven’t come across the thin slides for this model yet so I don’t know how it would handle them.
hey im from israel ive got the powerslide x but the scanner keep scan only first slide no matter what do i do its keep scanning same slide the magazine isnt moving foroward with each scan, can you try and help me solved it?
amir
Do you have the cartridge right side up? If you have it upside down, it will not feed. Make sure that the you have the number "1" in by the arm. When I start batch recordings, I have to manually put in the first slide and then start the batch. If that does not work then you may have to return it for a new one.
That's a pretty nice $3000.00 device. Makes sense for commercial applications.
Yes, they are for commercial applications.
I don't know what you mean when you say 600 spi (samples per inch) is "archival." For 35mm slides, this gives you an image that can be printed at 72mm x 48mm at 300 ppi. That's a very small print! In my opinion, a good archival scan should be done at 2400 spi. (PS: I don't use the term dpi because it doesn't apply to this media.)
They are not to be printed at 600. 600 is for digital archives. I scan at a much high dpi if clients want to print.
@@TheMediaNerdMT If I understand you correctly, you are saying that your "digital archive" files from 35mm film are only 600 x 900 pixels or 0.54 Megapixels. This almost amounts to merely having thumbnails of your scans. As a personal project, I'm doing my "family" images at 2160 x 1440 pixels or 3.11 Megapixels, and I consider this to be a bare minimum for archiving. For my business clients, I use 4320 x 2880 pixels (12.4 Megapixels) for 35mm archiving.
I didn't like seeing all that freon being sprayed all over the slides from the canned air! 😮
What do you suggest and what does it matter? They get sprayed, scanned a few minutes later then the client throws all the slides away shortly after. I don't see any type of residue after giving the slides a quick shot.
Like your comment, I get comments about how not to do something right before a digital scan because it will hurt the media in the long run. My clients throw the media away as soon as they get the digital files (that is why they get them digitized so they don't have to keep them) so, is the corrupt media like the Freon coated slides going to hurt the trash someway that I don't know about?
@@TheMediaNerdMT I never used canned air to blow away dust. I simply squeeze a rubber "bulb-style" blower that emits a nice blast of air. Great for building hand strength as well. 😊