With a lot of courage, I started with the Ion digitizing my 4000 Dias. One should fool oneself, no matter what machine it depends on patience and diligence to when it is hoped a satisfactory result. Place a pile of slides in the slide system and simply run through will only cause frustration. Here individual work is called for: blow dust from the slide by examining light panel on dust and possibly dust off the small wiper, Dia move with the correct thickness setting of the slide, copying and eject the grab of the next. The scanner adjusts the fluoroscopy correct automatically, the possibility of the manual rules of lighting is not really necessary, because this has to be done in post-production on the computer anyway. The adjustment of the slides on the thickness is not without problems, old frames with glass that remain embedded in the slide, so the points deduction. One has the cog of the slide loosen some purpose. The included software for image editing I did not try, but it seems (too) many opportunities to offer. I can only recommend the standard photo application of Windows 7 Live Photo Gallery; It's fast and powerful when it comes to enhance the highlights to correct the color temperature or runterzufahren the contrast, which is almost always necessary. The resolution is in any case very well, and the Kodachrome 25 slides provide nearly the quality that we are accustomed in our digital environment. Conclusion: I am very satisfied with the end result that I stream over the Internet to the TV. The lot of work with this apparatus is worthwhile; per 100 slides I count about 1 hour for scanning and 1 hour for the post. The long winter evenings may come therefore, I will spend it with this time machine ...
