Thus, to prevent the disappearance of the movies, their scanning and digitalization become a priority. This material is particularly unstable and can undergoes severe degradation due to thermal, photocatalytic and hydrolytic loss of nitro groups from the lateral chain. I know it’s a minor thing but still annoying.Cellulose nitrate (CN) has been used in the past as support for photographic negatives and cinematographic films. So, am I going to use it? Well, hell no ?Īnother thing I find a bit annoying about this scanner is that it adds a title and a caption to your photo, that both says “My beautiful picture”, stop it! Now you have to manually remove those, if you don’t want it to pop-up – almost – everywhere you use the photo online. But not for anything serious, for that the quality is still too bad. The photos from the Ruby scanner were useless, the ones from the :Zolid are almost usable. We are way above what the Ruby scanner could deliver in quality. Now with a camera that’s way better than the one on the Ruby scanner, but still not good enough. You can adjust the brightness, and the color with an “RGB” adjustment, where you set the colors – Red, Green & Blue – individually to get the color tone you want on the photo.īut it wouldn’t be wise to start making adjustments when all you have to go by is a very small and properly not very accurate LCD screen.Īs it was with the Ruby scanner, this one doesn’t scan, it just makes a photo of your photo. You can actually make some minor adjustments to your photo, before scanning it. Why isn’t there just a save button on the outside of the scanner? Adjustments
When you want to save a photo/scan you have to push the OK button, wait for the menu to appear – it’s only a few seconds, but still – then push the OK button again, then it saves your scan. I ended up just scanning the photos as they were, and then flipping and rotating them in Lightroom, faster and easier. I also wanted to rotate one of my photo’s but that didn’t work either, here you have to go into the menu rotate and saved it, but it was still turning the wrong way, when I exited the menu. But no matter what I try I couldn’t get the buttons to work with flipping and mirroring. There are three buttons at the top of the scanner – Mirror – OK – Flip – they are used for, according to the manual, mirroring and flipping the photo, and entering the menu. And as with the Ruby, you just put your film in one of the film holders, slide that into the side of the scanner and your ready to scan your first photo.īut this is where the headache starts, because the software for controlling the scans really sucks.
When you’re using the :Zolid scanner, you don’t need a computer, it saves the scans to the SD card. :Zolid scans 35mm negatives and slide film – Ruby also did 110 – and setting up the scanner is really easy, you just plug-in the power, insert an SD card and you’re ready to go. Is – I guess – the name of this scanner, and right of the batch the design and build quality, looks and feels better than the Ruby scanner, but that isn’t saying much, because the Ruby was really crappy. In December last year I made a short review of the “ Reflecta RubyScan” now I got my hands on one more of these cheap scanners, and I thought why not make a review of it as well.