If you want to quickly and easily turn old slides or film into digital pictures without spending a lot of money, this is a great product. It is very easy to use, probably as fast as possible for this kind of work, and a reasonable price. I would have given it four stars, but the colors on the photos are not always super accurate. If the photo is bright or has a lot of white it can get a little washed out. This isn't terrible, and if your goal is to preserve memories it shouldn't be a problem, but if you wanted to digitalize some high quality images of white flowers in sunlight then you will probably be disappointed. In my opinion this gives probably about the best photo quality you will find for under $100, and for ease of use and speed I doubt there is anything better.
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Very easy to use, BUT, the images are not high resolution and certainly don't look like they are 14 MP resolution, it's look more like 3-4 mega pixel resolution maximum. Also, the colors are not good (the DEL light inside the machine isn't good to begin with and you can take 2-3 takes from the same slide and you will never get the same colors each time) and it's a very long process to edit each pictures in photoshop. I use it only for my old slides and if your slides are made on Kodak Kodachrome it will not work at all, I wasn't able to scan those slides (they are different, if you look closely on of these slide, they are textured, it's like they have some amount of ink on them).I was able to scan all the normal Kodak slides (if you look at those slides, they are not textured and they look like pictures only). The program on the CD is not good, it's a pain in the ass to use it and photoshop is much better especially to remove the black spots and dust on the images. Don't except professionnal results, I did try to scan some old 35mm negatives and the results was awful. Almost impossible to edit each pictures in photoshop. The colors aren't accurate and the images look weird.Read full review
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This scanner is small and lightweight and very easy to set-up. Instructions on its use could be better, but it was easy to figure out. I bought it to scan a handful of old slides and 35mm negatives. Buying the scanner was less expensive, quicker, and easier than paying someone else to do the work for me. Although it creates 14MB files, output quality may not be sufficient for someone who is seriously critical about their images. As a hobbyist, it was fine for converting my old media to jpeg files. When I was done creating my jpegs, I donated the unit to my local library.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I gave it 4 stars because it does come as a complete kit, it does function, and it is WAY STUPID CHEAP... This product is NOT designed to be, nor priced as, professional level equipment. Do not expect professional level results. BUT it is 14MP so it will produce a large decent quality image, just not a super high quality image. If your a photographer or photo enthusiast and you want professional level, keep on shopping... And expect to pay way way way more than what this item costs. Like I said for $50 this is a GREAT product. BUT don't expect superior quality. When I use it, I make sure the negatives are in proper condition (clean) and I make sure to swab off the lens on the device as well (comes with a stick that fits in there). So check this out, scan your image in AND THANK GOD FOR PHOTOSHOP because I take a crappy quality scan and using the Adobe Camera RAW feature all the sudden POOF you can modify junky scan into really nice digital photo's. I simply cannot give this product a 5-star rating, it would be very deceiving. BUT if I could give it 5-stars in any one area it would be "VALUE" - hope this helps.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
This is an inexpensive scanner of slides and negatives. I have not used it for negatives but it works great for slides. The controls are realatively intuitive and once learned, are easy to use. Manipulating the picture (rotate/mirror) is quick and easy - faster than doing so on the computer later. After loading the tray with 4 slides, I was able to scan and store them in about 15 to 20 seconds each. Being able to save the images on an SD card was the reason for selecting this particular unit as the work can be done anywhere without having to take the computer with me and I do not have to worry about software compatibility. No software provided as none is required - just upload to your computer and process with any other software. Other reviews indicate that color rendering might be the greatest and that post scan adjustments might be required, that has not be a concern for me - quality seems to be good. BUT, my slides are up to 60 years old and have not been looked at for at least 35 years - if I do not scan them, they will never be looked at again and the family history will be lost. Thus, color rendering is of little concern. If true rendering is that important, there are probably better units available but at significantly higher price. For the price and my purpose, this is a very good value.Read full review
You feed the film in the adapter, and start scanning on the provided 1GB/2GB card. It takes a second for the scanner to take a picture of your negative and then another second to save it. Done! I absolutely love this scanner because I was able to scan films that I have forgotten and brought back fond memories from my past. Even if the black/white film is damaged it does not really matter as it will be a black/white picture. It will revert the picture for you in real time and you will not need to use any fancy software after that to revert them from negative to positive. Be careful to clean the film before you start scanning, the same goes for the back-light glass. Use the provided brush which has a rubber type of surface, it will get all the scum and hairs from the film and from the glass. The resolution of the scanner is 5 Megapixels which means it will show you all the scratches and imperfections from your films with very accurate clarity. I am just amazed of the quality of this scanner and of how fast I was able to scan over 100 films that would otherwise decay in a drawer somewhere. The screen is okay size 2,5 inches, the angle is it set at is not the best you need to look at a certain angle to see proper. I guess you only need it to arrange the frame correctly and do minor inspection of the negative you're about to scan not to do deep analysis of the frame; you do that after you import it in your computer. Works perfect with both PC and Mac. Under both it will show as a drive from which you can then import your pictures to your prefered program. Picasa and iPhoto will detect it immediately and ask you if you want to import your pictures. I have also a flatbed scanner with the option to scan films. Aside of the fact that it takes forever to scan a 24x35mm frame the quality is not even close to this scanner. The technology is different, ION Audio Film2SD uses a back-lit glass and a 5 Megapixel digital camera, the flatbed scanner is using a moving tray underneath the film and scans one row of pixels at a time. Purchase it and you will not go wrong with this one. I have to say though that this is not for professionals. A scanned frame 24x36mm results in a ~2 megabyte file sometimes less, whereas from scanners with higher resolution you will get higher file sizes.Read full review
I installed it & Photo Impression-6 software, scanned a negative in but it kept negative image as a negative there was no way to convert it to a positive image which was the purpose of scanning it from a film negative image To use it I had to save it to my desktop as the negative image, and then use another photo editing software to open that file and convert it to a positive image so I could work on it. the software program should have the option to convert negative to positive conversely is you scanned a photo slide (positive) then the image would appear as one want it to and you could work on it in a photo editor or it may just be perfect and thats all you have to do.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
The unit was easy to get running. There are very few settings, just what type of film, and some brightness adjustment. The resulting scans are really very poor. In particular: Slides come out with super saturated colors, like having color saturation at max. Color Negatives come out pale, with faded pastel like colors Black and white negatives are truly horrible, unusable, big blotches of gray, looks like it is 4 bit grayscale, or like I ran it through a photocopier 20 times. Note the above comments are for well exposed images. In addition the resolution is not good. I have used flatbed scanners in the past and am used to the sharpening etc. required for scans, but the images from this unit cannot be rescued even with some extreme sharpening settings. I had not expected much from this device, I mainly wanted it to catalog my slides/negatives so I could choose the ones to scan with a better device. It is not even able to do this. Very disappointed.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
This little slide converter does what it is intended to do, but with limitations. The slides are inserted into a slide stack, and a "changer" pushes one slide at a time into the digitizer. Either my old slides have expanded a bit or the sides that hold the stack in place are too tight. The slides will not drop down as the mechanism is actuated, resulting in misfeeds. I just get my slides lined up and then put them one at a time into the tray. The device creates .jpg files that average about 1MB per slide. There is no way to adjust the .jpg quality of the digitized file. Finally, the insides of the device are not accessible, but seem to be a glass surface like you would find in a scanner. There is a light source on one side of the glass and probably a camera lens on the other. A stick with a soft fabric is included for cleaning the glass surface to remove dust. You stick it in the side where the slide feeder goes and wipe it around. It works pretty well to get dust off the glass. However, if there is dust on the camera lens you are out of luck. There is no way to remove it. Plan on doing some "spotting" in Photoshop! All things considered, it works well for the price.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Just what I needed to scan thousands of negatives. Had the older Ion scanner which only worked on Windows XP and wasn't upgradeable. Kept that computer just for the task, but didn't want to work on this project because it was SO slow. Two hours and nine scans later... Bought this unit. Can scan 200 or negatives in that two hours. Works great. Quality fantastic considering some of these negatives are 35+ years old and have never been carefully stored! Google Photos can assist with color fixes. Love being able to see these pictures on my phone!
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