When we finish a review we are expected to return the hardware, and that is something that simply wasn't welcome in this case. We don't do a lot of scanning here other than testing, but what we do should be fast, easy, and lead to good scans on the first try. The PowerLook III fit the bill perfectly, and soon it will be gone. The PowerLook III claims to scan up to a dMax of 3.4, the 10,600 element CCD allows 1200 sample per inch resolution over the 8.5 inch width, and the scanner steps over the length of the scan at up to 2400 per inch. The transparent media adapter is built into the models sold under the Umax name.
Art is loaded to the front center of the scanning area.
No minimum system requirements are posted, but the binuscan PhotoPerfect Master uses about 32 MB of RAM on this system. We made one brief and unsuccessful attempt at connecting to a Windows NT workstation with an existing SCSI host adapter, but we suspect the card rather than the scanner. We used two images from Michael Nelson to test the scanner with transparencies. The portrait of jazz guitarist Wayne Goins is copyright 1994. It was scanned at 1200 spi from a 35mm slide.