Negative Scanner Mac

The PSC500 is a digital photo scanner that is able to scan images at 5.0 Mega pixel quality. With 10 bits per color channel and 1800 dpi resolution capabilities, your images will transfer with amazing clarity. The PSC500 also features automatic color balance and exposure control to make the most of all of your scanned photos. It's versatility is revealed in how many different picture sizes it is capable of scanning: 3"x5", 4"x6", and 5"x7".

Brand: Vupoint Model: VUP PSC500VP Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.20 pounds Scan images at 5.0 Mega pixel quality Automatic color balance and exposure control Scan different photos sizes: 3"x5", 4"x6", and 5"x7" Scan high resolution images up to 1800 dpi 2.0 USB Interface

Most helpful customer reviews 64 of 65 people found the following review helpful. Good idea, but crappy results By Adam Long The idea of a device to let you create digital versions of old photos is great; however, this unit falls short in execution. The resulting digital photos are of very poor quality compared to the original prints; a scan of the photo on my cheap all-in-one printer creates a much better digital image. As one of the other reviewers mentioned, the images created include the plastic frame used to hold the photos in the device--cropping that out probably negates any time you might save by using this. The photo-editing software that comes with this device is garbage and crashed all three computers I tried to use it on. However, as this is a TWAIN-compliant device, you can use you favorite photo-editing program (Photoshop, GIMP, etc.) to pull the images to your computer (still have to install the device driver). Summary: Save your money and just use a flatbed scanner. 115 of 124 people found the following review helpful. limited and possibly dangerous to old photo's By A Reader First off, let me say I am flatbed scanner impaired. I simply cannot seem to scan a bed of photo's without getting fingerprints, dust and pet hair on the bed. I spend more time cleaning the bed then scanning. Then, after I finally get a decent scan free of those things, spending more time separating and rotating the images drives me nuts. I looked at scanning old photo's as a chore that I hated. So, when I saw this, I was as excited as a kid on Christmas eve, this was the answer to my prayers! It was short lived. First impressions- it is made of plastic and weighs about 1/2 lb, if that. It's so lightweight I'm afraid that if my cat crawled on it it would crack. I had no problem installing the driver, but chose not to install the Photoimpression 6 software it comes with as I have many others that are better. If it's connected to the computer, it's on. If you don't want it on, you have to unplug it from the computer. There's no on/off button. The first problem came when I tried to scan an old photo from the 1970's. I have boxes of photo's from this era taken with camera's of that era--Polaroids, Brownies and Instamatics. None of these work with this scanner. The photo must slide into one of the frames (it comes with three frames of set sizes). So when I put a square photo from an old Instamatic camera into a rectangular frame, it fell out inside the scanner. Luckily, the scanner is so light I held it upside down and it fell out. I'm sure I can make some sort of frame for the frame to hold these other sized photos, but we're back to a hassle of then having to crop that out as it only scans the set sizes of the set frames. The next issue for me came when I then went and found a correct sized photo for the frame. The frame is hard plastic. There is a slot on the top and you slide the photo through the slot and down into the frame. And when I did so, all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I imagined how many scratches and nicks this was causing to a 25 year old photo. I spend hours correcting image flaws just from storage in old magnetic albums and boxes, the thought of adding more damage to them trying to get them in and out of a frame was not thrilling. I have many graphic programs that will import scanned images so I did not install the Photoimpression 6 software that was included. But when I tried importing in PSP, PS, Vue Scan, and even with the basic Scanner wizard in XP, I got not only the image, but the frame that held it as well. The screen shots in the users manual didn't have the frame showing so I then went back and installed PhotoImpression. For some reason I don't get, using this software does remove the frame from the finished image. But it sure would be easier to have it import into the program I use to fix and scrap with. Bottom line is that all those photo's taken for decades prior to my first 35mm camera, will still