What came out was a world of disappointment. The scanner just can’t handle Kodachrome, and even on films that it can manage, the quality is just appalling. The sharpness is good, but the colours and contrast sucks.

So, I’ve bought an expensive second hand scanner instead. It’s a Nikon Coolscan 4000ED which I bought from a friend. I’ve only spend 30 mins with it, and scanned a few random slides to see if it works well, and I’m really pleased.

Here is a gallery of some of the Plustek scans, with their Nikon counterparts. The Nikon scans are as is, without setting the scanner up properly, or calibrating anything, or even blowing the dust off. I can’t wait to spend some time getting the scans perfect tonight.

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I’m a very happy bunny. Time to buy some more film.

All photos were taken with my Pentax ME Super, on Kodachrome 64 with either my 50mm f1.7, or 28mm f2.8 pentax lenses.

My new camera, except mine is white and orange.

It takes 3 photos within a short space of time, around 1 second I think. The best photos I have seen with them show some sort of movement, either panning or shooting a moving target, so I’m after ideas of what I should do.

Example of a robot 3 photo

My first thoughts are that I could take photos from the passenger seat of my car as we pass various landmarks, and that taking it to a funfair would be a good idea too, but suggestions are welcome. Hopefully I will feed the first roll of film through it this weekend and will see some results next week. I’ll start with an old free roll of jessops film, just as a tester.

These pictures were taken from an ebay advert by greenlife style They have a feedback of 10,600 and may be one of the more reputable places to get a camera like this from.