![]() ![]() The front has small grooves which ensure that the holder locks in a correct position - this guarantees that the film material is in the right place for scanning. The equipped holder has to be pushed from the right into the scanner. The film holder makes a quite instable impression, but is besides that easy to handle. They have simply to be placed side-correct in the opened holder and then the cover needs to be closed. The film holder for framed slides can take up to three slides at the same time. With the first start of the scanning software the scanner is being calibrated, therefore one must make sure that there is no film in the scanner yet. When this step is done, one can start scanning. As soon as the connection with the computer is established, the power-indication lamp is lit and the device is ready. Switching the scanner on and off is not possible. Here one has to click on "install driver automatically" - and then exactly that directly happens. If the CD is removed from the drive and the scanner is connected, a window appears with the message that new hardware was found. This also happens by a simple click on the corresponding menu option in the installation window.īefore connecting the scanner through USB 2.0 to the computer, one must remove the CD from the drive - otherwise the initialization of the scanner doesn't work and with the attempt to scan an error message will appear. Afterwards one can install the included ArcSoft PhotoImpression 6. To do so, one simply inserts the provided CD into the drive and selects the driver installation. First the driver software must be installed. The installation of the Reflecta xScan works like with most other USB devices. One can conclude this already by analyzing the technical data. The Reflecta xScan is therefore no scanner for professional archiving of slides or negatives, but rather a device to quickly transfer own pictures into the PC in order to view them or to publish them on the Internet. An automatic dust and scratch correction, such as ICE or iSRD, is of cause technically impossible, too. The maximum density of 3.0 Dmax means a density range of 2,5 that's too little to get the details in shaded and bright parts. The price is sensationally cheap for such a fast film scanner, but the technical data given by the manufacturer don't suggest professional image quality: 4 megapixels remain when scanning a realistic portion of the picture with 1800 dpi. With the xScan Reflecta brought such an integrated, complete solution to the market. There were already numerous attempts and solution possibilities in the past years to photograph images off slides using digital cameras. ![]() The technical data (24 bits color depth, 5 megapixels resolution, USB 2.0 connection) clearly sound like a digital camera. Thus this mini-scanner is more than 100 times faster than some professional film scanner. A power cable or a power supply is not needed, since the scanner is receiving the power through the USB-connection.Īccording to the manufacturer's description the scanning time for a picture is just one second. ![]() That's already it about the provided accessories - but one doesn't need more. The USB connection cable is firmly connected with the device - so one can't exchange it. Operating instructions in German and other languages come with it too. There's also an included CD with the Twain driver software, as well as the picture-processing and -viewing program ArcSoft PhotoImpression 6. Thus one receives additionally to the scanner a film holder for a 35mm film strip with up to 6 pictures and a film holder for up to 3 framed 35mm slides. The Reflecta xScan is delivered with little but complete equipment. Equipment, accessories and technical data of the film scanner We won't add later information about possible changes in the hardware or the software to our test report. We've tested the device in December 2007, very soon after the introduction on the market. Our test report is to show, what quality the xScan actually offers and whether the device can compete against scanners which work the conventional way. The XScan was replaced by the successor X2-Scan in September 2008. ![]()
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