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Work well. Had many (10K +) old slides to scan for my parents. Scanned well. There are scanners with greater resolution to be had at much greater cost. Scanned some old negatives I had. Scanned very well.
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I've bought this so called "scanner" for 5$. That was the only reason for making a purchase. It had trouble installing on Windows 7 and following versions as well, but I was able to make it work after all. And I must say it's a terrible thing. Color depth is shallow quality is below average even for black and white scans. After a couple of hours of fiddling with it I disassembled it only to discover a standard 5 megapixel sensor inside with a fixed focus single piece of lens screwed to it. It's by no means a scanner at all. Do not buy and if you get it as a gift, throw it away.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I can only comment on the Ion unit with regard to slide reproduction as I have not used it for negatives. Overall, it does an adequate job for most family vacation slides. It's easy to use - you just manually place up to 3 slides in the tray and capture them one at a time into the computer using the software provided. My biggest complaint is that there is no way to manually adjust the brightness of the lamp during the capture process. It's an automatic exposure adjustment that sometimes (often?) leaves areas of the slide over-exposed. This cannot be adjusted later in picture editing software, since those areas are driven to saturation and detail cannot be recovered. If I acquire those pictures as though they were negatives, I am sometimes able to quickly capture the picture as it slowly goes through the proper exposure brightness, and then edit the picture into a positive later. But that doesn't always work, and it really slows down the process of archiving your slides. This unit would be so much better with the simple addition of a manual exposure control.Read full review
I found this Scanner to be everything it they said it was. It was easy to set up, and worked great. Much better to scan slides with than using one of those camera mount slide capture devices. The Editing Program that came with it is easy to use, but you have to be careful not to add too much color. There is also a nice slide show program that makes it easy to show what you have scanned. Out of 10 possible points, I would give this one an 8.
I needed a film scanner to scan old 35 mm. slides and after going to manufacturers websites and getting quite frustrated, I decided to try ebay, and am very glad I did. I found the film scanner I wanted in no time. I have had very good results from scanning my old 35 mm. slides. The only difficulty I have had was in understanding the literature - it could be much clearer. Also, I have not had much success, if any, in scanning via my USB port, but instead, have scanned and then used the memory card to transfer the images. The memory card is a little tricky to delete images when full, but again, I think if the manufacturers directions had been more clear, there should not be a problem in doing that. All in all, I am quite satisfied with my product, and am glad I researched on ebay and found what I needed.Read full review
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