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Test report film scanner Reflecta xScan By the end of October 2007, just in time for the Christmas business, Reflecta introduced with xScan a real novelty in the field of film scanners to the market. The xScan is the first film scanner, which has a CMOS-chip and not a CCD-line. This means a 35mm-slide or negative is being scanned in one shot and not line by line through the CCD-line-sensor. In principle the xScan is some kind of stationary digital camera, which simply photographs the inserted film. The XScan was replaced by the successor in September 2008.

Are still available. 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. We've tested the device in December 2007, very soon after the introduction on the market. We won't add later information about possible changes in the hardware or the software to our test report. Equipment, accessories and technical data of the film scanner The Reflecta xScan is delivered with little but complete equipment. 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. There's also an included CD with the Twain driver software, as well as the picture-processing and -viewing program ArcSoft PhotoImpression 6.

Operating instructions in German and other languages come with it too. The USB connection cable is firmly connected with the device - so one can't exchange it. That's already it about the provided accessories - but one doesn't need more. A power cable or a power supply is not needed, since the scanner is receiving the power through the USB-connection. According to the manufacturer's description the scanning time for a picture is just one second. Thus this mini-scanner is more than 100 times faster than some professional film scanner.

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The technical data (24 bits color depth, 5 megapixels resolution, USB 2.0 connection) clearly sound like a digital camera. There were already numerous attempts and solution possibilities in the past years to photograph images off slides using digital cameras. With the xScan Reflecta brought such an integrated, complete solution to the market. 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. 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. An automatic dust and scratch correction, such as ICE or iSRD, is of cause technically impossible, too. 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.

One can conclude this already by analyzing the technical data. Installation and starting The installation of the Reflecta xScan works like with most other USB devices. First the driver software must be installed. To do so, one simply inserts the provided CD into the drive and selects the driver installation. Afterwards one can install the included ArcSoft PhotoImpression 6. This also happens by a simple click on the corresponding menu option in the installation window. Before 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.

If the CD is removed from the drive and the scanner is connected, a window appears with the message that new hardware was found. Here one has to click on 'install driver automatically' - and then exactly that directly happens. Switching the scanner on and off is not possible. As soon as the connection with the computer is established, the power-indication lamp is lit and the device is ready. When this step is done, one can start scanning. 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. Scanning framed slides The film holder for framed slides can take up to three slides at the same time.