Kodak RFS 3600

Kodak claims a dynamic range of 3.6 for the RFS 3600. This seems distinctly conservative -- we were able to obtain very satisfactory shadow detail on slides, and on color negative scans the Kodak scanner actually produced less noise in the highlights...

The new RFS 3600 scanner for 35mm slides and filmstrips has little in common with the 3570. It's a lot cheaper, but much slower because it uses conventional linear CCD and lamp technology. It has much better maximum resolution of 3,600dpi, a...

Fast scans with Silverfast & SCSI - Good color accuracy - Easy set up

Poor film feeder/holder (use slide mount for negatives) - Scannner noise could be lower

It trained me alot to understand scanning problems.

SW doesn't work (especially on high quality mode, ie after 4 passes of scan), expensive.

Ability to scan rolls of film. Reasonably good quality results.

Poor software. Amateurish support. Slow final scans. Software updates appear to be designed to assassinate the machine!

Super high quality scans. 100 rolls of film free.

buggie driver, scanner doesn''t show up under win2000 pro (have to do a hardware scan after boot) AWFUL twain interface. If you bought one before Nov. (which I did) you are out of luck with getting the Silverfast AI software without shelling out...

Good dynamic range of 3.6, high scanning resolution and great control of image (scan) parameters using the new SiverFast Ai5 software. SilverFast also allows greatly improved prescans and much faster final scans as compared to Kodak''s software for...

Neither SilverFast Ai nor Kodaks native software for the 3600 are stand alone programs nor do they have provision for automatically eliminating scratches, dust particles, etc. as does Applied Science''s Digital Ice and Canon''s FARE. Optical resolution...

Scans up to 36 frames at once - enormously handy. Allows excellent digitally based proof sheets on 8X10 paper. Does competitive job on enlargments on grainier films to 8X12 in. Finally, since I am supposed to receive about $650 dollars worth of "free"...

Kind of noisy No trays to protect the negatives being scanned Pretty much ties up the computer processor. Not for enlargements of high resolution films

Resolution...Picture quality

Wish it did medium format

When it's working, it can be a decent film scanner with good color fedelity, but see weaknesses

This scanner has problems, and I have been plagued with them ; 1. The scanner developes dark streaks from top to bottom of the scans at random times and locations ; 2. The scan quality of film at the edges is unacceptablty soft ; 3. The software is a...