bmichel

<p>If Aperture works for you now -- it does for me -- you can keep it -- albeit unchanged -- at least through the new OS X (Yosemite) cycle. We simply do not know what OS X Photos capabilities are. I am concerned about any Apple dumbing-down of the capabilities. I could not care less about being able to see all of my photos on my Mac automatically also on my iPhone. Or vice-versa. The preview for iOS 8 at https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/photos/ is not encouraging if that is also the rationale for the OS X incarnation.</p>

<p>I have a Prime Film 7250 Pro3 that looks like an older relative of the Pacific Imaging Prime Film XA. I am scanning old film shot by consumer cameras, so image quality has not been such a big issue for me. My big issue with the scanner may remain for the XA. It is that sometimes the individual frames are not properly detected. This gets frustrating at times. It does not seem to relate to the physical quality of the film strips but to their logic for detecting an image. Once the first image is aligned, one would think that all it needs to do is go down 36+mm and make slight adjustments for the remainder of the film. The preview is much too slow for my purposes as it is at 300 dpi. All I want is a rough image so I can determine whether to scan or not. Perhaps this is remedied. Customer service from PIE was good.<br /> <br /> There are several reviews for both scanners, including mine for the 7250, on B&H.</p>

<div></div>

<div></div>