Sony UY-S77
Sony produced the UY-S77 around 1997, with the intention of a high throughput environment; possibly for minilabs.
The scanner offers reasonable resolution coupled with good scan speeds. 35mm135 film 135 film, more popularly referred to as 35 mm film or 35 mm, is a format of photographic film with a film gauge of 35 mm (1.4 in) loaded into a standardized type of magazine (also referred to as a cassette or cartridge) for use in 135 film cameras. Read more on Wikipedia roll film and 35mm slides can be scanned at 2,048 x 3,072 – allowing for 300 DPIDots per inch Dots per inch (DPI, or dpi) is a measure of spatial printing, video or image scanner dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch (2.54cm). Similarly, dots per centimeter (d/cm or dpcm) refers to the number of individual dots that can be placed within a line of 1 centimeter (0.384 in). Read more on Wikipedia prints at around 10 x 7 inches, or around 20 x 13 inches if you are willing to drop to 150 DPI. Scanning at the maximum resolution, a roll of 36 images takes around 10 minutes to scan.
Specifications
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| APSAdvanced Photo System (APS) Advanced Photo System (APS) is a discontinued film format for still photography first introduced in 1996. It was marketed by Eastman Kodak under the brand name Advantix, by FujiFilm under the name Nexia, by Agfa under the name Futura and by Konica as Centuria. Read more on Wikipedia | Yes (With optional APS gate) |
| 135 film135 film 135 film, more popularly referred to as 35 mm film or 35 mm, is a format of photographic film with a film gauge of 35 mm (1.4 in) loaded into a standardized type of magazine (also referred to as a cassette or cartridge) for use in 135 film cameras. Read more on Wikipedia | Yes (With included 135135 film 135 film, more popularly referred to as 35 mm film or 35 mm, is a format of photographic film with a film gauge of 35 mm (1.4 in) loaded into a standardized type of magazine (also referred to as a cassette or cartridge) for use in 135 film cameras. Read more on Wikipedia gate, scans strips of 2 or more frames) |
| Mounted slideReversal film In photography, reversal film, or slide film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. Instead of negatives and prints, reversal film is processed to produce transparencies or diapositives (abbreviated as "diafilm" or "dia" in some languages like German, Romanian or Hungarian). Reversal film is produced in various sizes, from 35mm to roll film to 8x10 sheet film. Read more on Wikipedia | Yes (With included slide gate, optional automatic slide gate also available) |
| Medium formatMedium format Medium format has traditionally referred to a film format in photography and the related cameras and equipment that use film. Nowadays, the term applies to film and digital cameras that record images on media larger than the 24 mm x 36 mm (0.94 in x 1.42 in) used in 35 mm photography (though not including 127 sizes), but smaller than 4 x 6 in (100 mm x 130 mm) (which is considered large format photography). Read more on Wikipedia | No |
| Large formatLarge format Large format refers to any imaging format of 9 cm x 12 cm (3.5 in x 4.7 in) or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the 6 cm x 6 cm (2.4 in x 2.4 in) or 6 cm x 9 cm (2.4 in x 3.5 in) size of Hasselblad, Mamiya, Rollei, Kowa, and Pentax cameras (using 120- and 220-roll film), and much larger than the 24 mm x 36 mm (0.94 in x 1.42 in) frames of 35 mm format. Read more on Wikipedia | No |
| Interface | SCSISmall Computer System Interface (SCSI) Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for it's use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced in the 1980s and has seen widespread use on servers and high-end workstations, with new SCSI standards being published as recently as SAS-4 in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia |
| Resolution | 2,200 dpi |
| Dust removal | No |
Three resolutions are offered for 35mm film and slide, two for APS.
| Density | 35mm & Slide | APS |
|---|---|---|
| Low densty | 512 x 768 | – |
| High density | 1,024 x 1,536 | 512 x 912 |
| Ultra density | 2,048 x 3,072 | 1,024 x 1,824 |
Accessories
135 film gate
One of the included film gates is for 135 film, it accepts strips between 2 and 40 frames in length. The 135 film gate is capable of reading DX coding data to obtain the film manufacturer from a limited list of known manufacturers. Additionally, frame number data can be used for numbering scanned images. In my experience, this should be used with caution as non uniquely numbered frames will overwrite prior scans, occasionally the scanner mis-reads frame numbers too.
Mounted slide film gate
The second included film gate is for 135 mounted slides and scans a single mounted slide at a time.
Automatic mounted slide film gate
Sony / Konica offered an automatic mounted slide gate under the model UYA-S90SF, as a combination automatic slide gate and slide feeder tray that electrically and mechanically connects to the scanner.
Slides are stacked in one side of the feeder tray, one-by-one fed into the slide gate for scanning, and then returned to the opposite end of the slide feeder.
APS film gate
An optional APS film gate was offered by both Sony and Konica under the model PW1-NSS, APS cassettes are loaded into the film gate and automatically fed through the gate for scanning.
Film loading tray
Strangely, Sony offered the film loading tray as an optional accessory, except for UC model scanners. The film loading tray goes under the model UYA-S77TR. Other mini lab style scanners usually offer the film tray as an included accessory.
Halogen lamp
Included with the Sony UY-S77 from new is 2x halogen lamps, model MPS-L60. These lamps have a very long serviceable life, in-fact, the scanner I own is still on it’s original lamp over 20 years later.
Replacement halogen lamps are relatively expensive and are becoming hard to find, there may be an alternative model number which is still produced for a reasonable price.
SCSI card
Sony did not provide a SCSI card with the scanner, owners were expected to provide their own. Thankfully, the scanner requires a relatively common and affordable SCSI card.
The card required is an Adaptec AHA-2930 or an Adaptec AHA-2940 – with a 50-pin, wide, half-pitch connector, or the ability to convert to this connector.
If using the scanner with a G3PowerPC PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC-Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA since 2006, while the old name lives on as a trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture-base processors. Read more on Wikipedia or G4PowerPC PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC-Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA since 2006, while the old name lives on as a trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture-base processors. Read more on Wikipedia powered Macintosh, an Adaptec PowerDomain-2940 or SCSIConnect 2906 card is required.
Software
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Documentation
Sample scans
As can be seen from the example scans, the Sony UY-S77 has quite poor bit depth when scanning Black & White film, almost reminiscent of a GameBoy Camera, colour film looks much better. Resolution is likely lower than most would want these days, but is acceptable for 8×10″ prints.
