shadow detail was better than the competing Nikon units at the time, but it still didn't come anywhere near a drum scan. Any image I sold to advertisers at the time had to be scanned at the local lab on a Scitex or sent to a shop in Chicago to get a huge drum scan made, even if only printed in 2x1" size. Guess things have really changed since then...

it has lost calibration or the light source is bad, or it is an incompatibility with Photoshop under XP, since I cannot make anything work with it any longer, even though it still scans smoothly and puts out images, but something is really off with the raw scans.

Hey, it's 10+ years old and what piece of hardware do you still use on your computer that was bought in the last century?

Bought it when it was brand new in the late 90s - just replaced the original 35 model. It was expensive then, but this was before the days of digital cams, and I had to crank out scans of slides at night after shooting and picking up film in the labs. spent many sleepless nights with this thing and it paid for itself many times over, even given the ridiculous price I paid back then (well, that was when a dinky Mac G3 laptop cost me $4500 and that was the only way to run photoshop and a SCSI scanner reliably on the road back then...)

Anyway - over the years it has somehow become a pain to use it under XP, and the scans it makes now lack color depth or even proper color balance. I've swapped the lamp for the backup unit and that didn't change a thing. so it's time to retire it and hope for a good deal on a more recent Nikon unit.

The scans it did at the time were fantastic. See them here - just about everything on these galleries past 1996 was done on the 35Plus

Here's some of the better scans

http://www.speedcenter.com/gallery/gallery99/best_of_1999/index.html

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never needed it

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Nikon Coolscan, several models, older sprintscan 35, etc.

speed
quality scans
ease of use
depentability

slide loading bay

I have owned this machine for three years and it has earned its cost 50 times over. I only wish is Polaroid would build a multi-format film scanner that would do just as good job and cost l little more.

Customer Service

Never had a problem so I have no experience with them.

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Nikon Coolscan

Polaroid Printscan 35 plus..purchased this unit because of its capability to record a wider range of tones. I was impressed with its performance with color negatives, slides, and black and white negatives. The best part of using this scanner is its simplicity.

The only problem the irked me was the slide-through loading bay. This configuration makes it impossible to place the unit next to other equipment, because you must have access to the front side of the machine. I see that the 4000 has gone to front loading.

This is a great performer as it is touted to be, aside from it's quirky design, and the short lifetime before failure. Because of the high initial cost, I figured it would have lasted longer, in light of the little use it saw. I would recommend trying one before buying one, and if you buy, buy aditional or extended warranty. I didn't.

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I had this unit for a year and a half, during which I may have scanned two or three hundred 35mm negatives. A couple of weeks ago the unit failed and had to be returned to Polaroid for repairs, which start at $125. My other scanners have worked fine for many years without failure. I believe that a $1300 scanner (street price) should have a longer life than this, so my next scanner will be another Nikon.

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Nikon scanners.

Good color and sharpness. Software is fine with slide scanning, you can view the histograph while changing the parameters.

loading system--hard to load the slide right;
shadow area kind of weak.

I have the 35es model, which Dmax is only 3.0 compared to 3.4 of the 'plus'. Many people don't like polaroid software. I think it's just fine, provides enough tools for tweaking. 8x10 print from epson 750 looks great. For a casual photographer it is more than enough.

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