Title: A step down
Product review: Bought this based on read reviews. Does not live up to it. Photos are highly vignetted and the position of the slide holder is offset from center (when zooming in to get better frame filling you lose the bottom of the pictureThis is used with a Canon 50d with a 24-105 f4L lens.I used the Opteka to scan two trips from Jamaica and Breckenridge (shot in raw for maximum ability to adjust) and then compared them to a Plustec 7500i scanner in Lightroom 3.4.PlusesThe scans took a fraction of the time- one role - 10 minutes vs 2 hours.Color saturation and post processing.NegativesHigh vignettingmisalignmentsome distortion caused by the Opteka lens, (high aberration)no ability to clean up artifacts (Plustec with Silverfast use a uv scan to remove)More after scan processing.ConclusionIf you do want a cheap way of scanning old slides and just want to make some 4 x 6's then go ahead and buy. But if you want higher quality scans, stick with a dedicated scanner.
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