Apple Reviews

Do Buy this product if.......
you are a small business owner, you are in communications graphics and you like to experiment, or you have been thrown the baton for your company's website.

Photo Objects, Vol. 2 is well suited to an individual or firm that needs 'B' grade object images for basic and intermediate visual projects. If you are a professional graphic artist, you will want to consider this package to satiate the needs of your smaller budget clients. Most image companies will charge you anywhere from $20 to $200+ for one high quality image. If you use 20 "Photo Objects" of the 50,000 included, you will have used the package well.

Don't buy it if.........
you are a professional charging more than $30/hr and your livelyhood depends on designing perfect work for maximum communication impact, or if you are a perfectionist - money is no object, and you own a mac.

HIGHLIGHTs:
The new search engine is great. Finding the closest image to what you want will take roughly 5 minutes. If you do alot of webwork, this product is worth at very least $200 dollars and is a steal of a deal. "Put up your hand if you DON"T feel ripped off from all the other packages you've bought."- - - - - - - - - -

I found it to be totally worthless with their outdated photos. Nothing new or current in the entire collection. I am looking specifically for business photos and technology photos - of which there are virtually none in the entire collection. I mean NONE.

I hope they will eventually make a collection that contains new stuff, like from the 20th century!!! And definitely cool, colorful images of space, technology, people, business people, buildings, offices, etc.

Spend your money elsewhere people. This collection is useful only if you're a historian and write on subjects from the early 1900's.

TWO THUMBS DOWN. WAY DOWN.

This is a great peice of software when you consider other clipart companies charge hundreds of dollars for only a few images. I love how the artwork is on a transparent backgroud, very easy to navigate - I'm on my way to purchase more of their products!

Color cast is always off; editing software is clunky; levels adjustment is incredibly clumsy; scanner is prone to crashing (all the time); scanner won't calibrate properly for film strips. I have wasted an unbelievable amount of time trying to scan with this machine, and then fixing the scanned products, and am incredibly frustrated. I'm using the more advanced version than this - the PF 3600 Pro, but it sounds like it has the same problems. My advice is to troll the Internet and mags for solid reviews, and spend your scanner money accordingly ... or wait 2 more years for the manufacturers to get us off their bleeding edge.

I only have a few things to say about the scanner and the company. Pacific Image as a company is terrible! They have no support and they don't care. This is the poorest example of a scanner I've ever used. Please take my advise and look eleswhere.

Reading some of the below reviews, I am reminded with I use a Mac: things usually work. The PF1800 is actually a good, not outstanding, scanner. I am scanning all my Dad's slides in and it produces good, easy to use results. I use about 1200 to 3000 dpi and it works well with manageable file sizes. Previously I was using an Epson flatbed scanner w/ slide attachment which as much slower and could not reliably reproduce quality scans. The PF1800 does though although not perfectly: it has trouble with darker slides which come out very grainy despite various manipulations. Also its CyberView 35 driver in Mac OS X (Panther) is not glitch free: it often mysteriously retrieves an old scan while posting a NEW slide and freezes up occasionally. But it's MUCH cheaper than the rest and it DOES WORK. I've done about a thousand slides with it so far... I should know. Also check out Costco.com for a better price. Happy scanning!

Originally, I had very negative things to say about this product--namely problems with scanning chrome. Well, it took a couple of attempts over the past three years, but Nikon's support crew did a fantastic job once I convinced them of the problem, and they absorbed the entire cost of the repair (which was almost half the cost of the scanner).

In other words, Nikon stands behind its products. And you can't beat that. Buy it.

I've had this since it was first released and have found it to be a superb scanner.
As someone else has pointed out, there are occasional issues with slides, but from my experience that is a glitch in the NikonScan software and not the scanner itself. Using other scanning software (eg. Vuescan or Silverfast) has solved those issues for me.

The Coolscan IV is definitely worth the price for scanning negatives. I looked at flatbed scanners and cheaper film scanners previously, but in the end I bit the bullet and bought the Coolscan. I have no regrets about doing this. The resolution of the scanned negatives is amazing - I can see details that were not visible the original prints. What really makes the investment worthwhile is the Digital ICE technology, which "cleans up" dusty or imperfect negatives. I am in the process of converting my entire film library into digital images.

This brings me to the downsides of the scanner. It does not utilize USB 2.0, and the process of scanning negatives at high resolutions is very very slow. I basically have to devote 45 minutes to an hour to scan in a roll of film because I have turned on Digital ICE as well as the other touch-up features available on the scanner. However, this is by choice, so for people who don't want the highest resolutions, the process may be somewhat faster. The other problem is that the included software is very powerful but has a steep learning curve. I spent a lot of initial time tweaking the settings to find what produced the best images.

Overall, though, the gripes are minor since the quality of the images is so high. This has changed how I take pictures now. Since the resolution of the digital images is higher than any reasonably priced digital camera on the market, I am now shooting most pictures with a film camera and scanning the negatives. This provides the best of both worlds - a set of cheap prints as well as high-quality digital images. Now I just need to get another hard drive to hold all the images that I am scanning in...

I bought this product not realizing how extremely limiting it was. You can't change the color on the type and the amount of text you can use is only 40 characters. Let alone the sizing capabilities are limiting...........way too much to complain about, so don't buy it.

I ordered this for my Mac, it came for Windows! No way to rate the product.

I bought this item because they advertised that they give a rebate. I submitted all the forms and the required items and they never gave me the rebate. They said that it was a duplicate. And it was surely not a duplicate. How can I send more than 1 set of original UPC and receipt. So be careful.

The photo on the Target website shows a cable input/output for cable protection. The unit arrived with a phone line input/output-not much help for those expecting protection on their cable line!

Awesome. Its changed my pc experience, that ball of wires is gone! Note: the PC700 I got is black/clear color, phone jacks are on the end. Way heavy construction, I feel safe. good build.

Very easy to install. I had to download the updated drivers for XP, but once I did that it was recognized at once. It replaced a USB hub and a smart media drive and also let me connect my zip drive, printer and scanner to my laptop at once. When I need to take the notebook with me I can disconnect two cords and fly knowing that I can reconnect it as easily when I get back to the office. Now I can take digital pictures, view them from the integrated smart media drive, edit them and back the whole thing up to the flashmedia drive for storage.

Life is good.