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Acufine Acu-1 Black & White Film Developer Concentrate, Makes 1 Qt. of Stock Solution

Made by Acufine

Amazon base price: $

Acer AcerScan ScanWit 2720S Film Scanner

Made by Acer

Scans slides and negative film with the touch of a button
36-bit color scans, recognizes more than 68.7 billion colors for true-to-life accuracy
2,700 by 2,700 dpi optical resolution
Fast scan speed--completes 2,700 dpi scan within 40 seconds
Auto positioning and auto focusing to secure a sharper image

Amazon base price: $399.99

Average review score:

Not so good

For slides this ScanWit an another one I tried both produced severe banding and noise. That was whether attached to the supplied SCSI card or my own Diamond FirePort 40 Dual - using different leads and the ScanWit being actively terminated. My reason for buying it was to convert to using slides for overall better quality. I can hide the banding by making the slides darker but that makes for inferior scans.

If you have one, you might try this yourself: crank up the brightness or the midtones on the Curves tool or Levels in either Mira or Photoshop. These bands occur even on a Raw scan. Now look for any banding effects...

Negatives are a different story. They are clear of noise and banding. I suppose it is the greater range of slides which pushes the scanner to its limits - at which mine fails.

Oddly, others claim slides are excellent and negatives are rubbish. Plainly, there are serious inconsistencies in these scanners. If you buy one, check it out carefully and make sure you can return it if it fails to be what you expect.

Thankfully, I can return mine. I will try another one and hope I get one that is good for slides and negs.

Excellent scanner for the price

Contrary to the first reviewer, a passive terminator is not needed if this is the only SCSI device in the computer and you are using the bundled SCSI card. All I needed to do was plug in the SCSI card, hook up and scanner, install the driver, and boom, it's working! You do, however, need a terminator if you're hooking up the scanner to a third party SCSI card (ex. Adaptec). The scanner produces excellent scans for negatives, and very good results with slide films. Bundled software, Mirafoto, has ver nice features and is easy to use. However, for certain negative films it does not produce the most accurate colors, but that can easily be corrected in any imaging software (Photoshop 5 LE is included). For this price, this scanner is an excellent buy!

For the price- unmatched

This is a wonderful scanne, loads of detail, with little shadow noise. The negative carriers and software are a bit fiddly, but the results are good with a little playing with the defaults. With a little looking, you can find this for a great ... price.