Primefilm Scanner 3600U

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F2WTLG
• Item model number: PF3600U
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Product Description

PrimeFilm 3600u is the first affordable film scanner on the market. With 3600 DPI optical resolution, PrimeFilm 3600u offers you the most economical way to digitize your 35mm slides and filmstrips. The true 48-bit scanning capability that distinguishes 68.7 billion distinctive colors and captures up to 18 Mega pixels per image provides an impressed improvement in shadow and highlight details. Giving you images 5,328 x 3,444 pixels. Simply insert your filmstrips and mounted slides into the proprietary 35mm viewing window, and you are ready to scan. Pacific Image's easy to use TWAIN-compliant (plug in for Mac) Cyberview X driver is appreciated by both novices and experienced users for offering many diverse levels of custom controls. PrimeFilm 3600u takes only 65 seconds to give you a true 3600 Dpi resolution scan. It speeds up overall project completion times and enhances your workflow efficiency

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Scanner won't disappoint, but your old negatives might..., May 11, 2007

By	Peter B. Stewart (Redmond, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This scanner is a reasonably good value and does a reasonably good job. If you have tried scanning prints with a flatbed scanner, you will be happier with the results you get scanning negatives with the PrimeFilm. A couple of caveats: first, this scanner is not fast. One roll of film a day is probably as much as you'll have patience for. Second, the scanned image quality is only as good as your negatives, and your old negatives are probably more fragile than you expected. Plan to spend a fair amount of time cleaning up blemishes in PhotoShop, and, frankly, if you used a cheap camera in the first place, don't even bother; you'll do just as well scanning the prints (and a decent flatbed scanner is a lot cheaper).

One last thing: if you want to save some money, go buy this scanner at C-O-S-T-C-O-D-O-T-C-O-M.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Junk!, July 2, 2008

By	FourDees "Dee" (Glendale, CA) - See all my reviews

This scanner is a piece of junk. Support tech was good at first, responding quickly by email when I had trouble with the basic operation of the unit. After scanning several slides and coming up with hideous colors, I finally simply asked them if this was a case of "you get what you pay for"--from that point on dead silence. This scanner has two colors--dark and red. An extremely well-lit slide scans very dark and quite red. Out of 61 slides that I have scanned so far, only two came up basically true to their colors. If you take the time to try to tweek the colors for each slide, the colors still stink! I am very sorry I bought this. If there was less than a one-star rating, that would be my choice.

6 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 35mm slide converter, April 6, 2007

By	Ernest B. Bell - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This little machine is simply great.. almost a plug and play.
I have tried larger scanners.. what a mess.. Pacific Image is best.