![]() ![]() ![]() So it's up to you, go cheap and limit the usability of the results, or do it properly (yes, that is more expensive-about $500) and have useful images. The current version of the software does support Catalina, I'm running that now. The software for Plustek does all of that. And if you have negatives from color film, the colors need to be converted from negative to positive, which is not just inversion but applying the conversion that the chemical process of the development fr that particular kind of film does. ![]() Typical flat bed scanners barely reach 2400 dpi and some can't get past 600 dpi, which is fine for scanning or duplicating a printed sheet but which won't give you the resolution of the details of the slides/negatives you are going to want. I use 7200 dpi, but the more modern models now go higher. That means scanning at a very high dots per inch (dpi). You want a very small image (essentially 1 inch by 1.4 inches) to be scanned at sufficient resolution that when you blow that image up to an 8 x10 or larger, or crop out the extraneous stuff and blow the rest up even more, the image stays sharp. The 9000F offers a scanning resolution of up to 9600x9600 dpi for film/slides and a quarter for photos and documents, all at 48. They are not cheap, but consider what you are asking for in a slide scanner. Usethe best scanners to capture content from printed material. The company website is and you can get them on Amazon. Has a frame to put mounted slides and another to hold a strip of color negatives for scanning, plus some despeckling routines that clean up the image for you. I have a scanner from a company called Plustek that worked pretty well to do that for me. ![]()
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