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So far, so great. I scanned a few of my father’s negatives from the ‘70s. I have everything set to the highest resolution, so the file sizes are pretty huge. I cannot speak to color yet, because I have only done b&w as of now, but the sharpness & clarity of these negatives is pretty stunning. I would prefer it if the trays would go off the frame into the sprocket area a bit. Same with the between frame pieces; I want the entire image, & I feel like we are forced to compromise that here. I have read some people’s frustrations with the program, & I understand that. If I am going to do any editing, it is going to be post to the raw file. I just want to select the resolution & hit scan. Seems to be unnecessarily convoluted & circuitous just to get the thing started. I have thousands of my father’s negatives (maybe millions; seventy years’ worth from a fellow who would easily shoot through five rolls of film a day), so my initial idea that this would be a simple task is now seeming much more Herculean, & much more selective, though it is hard to really gauge until you have an image up on the computer screen. But if you are looking for a very excellent capture of every grain of that negative, this machine is very impressive.
