I'm also an experienced book publisher with experience PhotoShopping many thousands of images for book publication. In my earlier days I built custom slide projectors that combined the superior optical systems (low-voltage high-depth-of-field lamps) of European projectors such as the Lietz Pradovit with the superior slide handling mechanisms of American projectors such as Sawyers Rototrays and Kodak Carousels. I'm an engineer with 50 years experience designing precision optical instruments, and I'm an avid photographer with several thousand 35mm slides of need of digitizing. This is a thorough review of my experience in examining the technical performance of the scanner and using it to process over 3000 of my slides.First some background. See here for a list of differences between the two versions.Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2020Īs others have highlighted, the PowerSlideX provides one of the few means of automating the slide scanning process, but is prone to jamming and has very weak software capabilities. And you’ll need the professional edition if you want to scan film. VueScan is available for $49.95 for the standard version and $99.95 for the professional edition.
VueScan provides support for around 2,400 scanner models on Windows, 2,100 on Mac and 1,900 on Linux. You can see a complete list of scanners here, but manufacturers include Nikon, Canon, Epson, Pentax, Kodak, Fujitsu, and many more. This week, though, VueScan released a new version 9.7, which runs find under Catalina, and offers support for thousands of older scanners from 42 manufacturers by reverse-engineering the drivers. This forces them to upgrade to newer hardware that isn’t necessarily as good for their needs or to keep a second computer around for compatibility. The update to 64-bit with Catalina meant that a lot of scanner owners lost native support for their devices, including many very popular models still in common use today, particularly slide and negative scanners.
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