I bought this item on March 29, 2013 from DBROTH via Amazon. I selected Saturday shipping and received it the next day. This scanner is very easy to use, right out of the box. No PC is ever needed, as long as you have somewhere to view the scans (like a TV with a card reader, a tablet, etc.) However, if you are like me, and you have lots of slides to scan, you'll want to dump them onto a hard drive and/or somewhere in the "Cloud" for safe keeping. (P.S. Don't trust a hard drive or memory card. It may fail, or if it is damaged, stolen or lost in a fire, you'll lose your photos. Get them on the cloud via a backup service or other online storage quickly, so you'll never ever lose them!)
Since I received it, I have scanned over 2500 slides. They take only a few seconds for each one. Maybe 10 seconds from the time you start putting the slide in, until you remove it. I was not looking for perfection with the scans, and I don't think this device can give you that. The only "problem" I had with this is that the exposure can be too bright or too dark sometimes. You can control it in the settings, however. But with 2500+ slides to scan, I did not want to take the time to adjust the exposure for each one. Ultimately, I was looking to relive the memories on these images, not to view them as if I was there.
Once I dumped them onto my PC, I brought them into Picasa and touched up many of them. It did a pretty good job of compensating for the weakness of the scanner. But again, I was not looking for perfection for 2500+ slide. I just wanted to get them digitized as quickly as possible. Speaking of Picasa - a little trick you can do is add Tags to each image. So you can add a tag of the name of each person in the photo (or a location, object, etc). Once complete, you can then do a search for any photos with the tag for a certain person and see all photos they are in at once. It saves the tags as part of the image file's properties, so you can even do a search in Windows Explorer using the tags. (ie, type in the search box: "tag:adam".)
The screen is no bigger than the slides, so it isn't much better than holding it up to a light to see what it is.
I also had an issue with some of the slides getting wedged into the slot. Apparently some slides are a bit larger than others and I had to push them down hard to get them to go into the slot all the way. Then, because of them being recessed into the unit, they were hard to get back out with my fingers. I found that keeping needle-nose pliers with me during my scanning made it much easier to remove the stuck slides. I had to use it a lot. You may not experience this, but just thought I'd share the tip about the pliers in case you do.
I would highly recommend this scanner to anyone looking to get their slides digitized as quickly as possible, and not too worried about having the highest quality scans.
I did not use the negative scan feature, so I can not comment on that. But for my purposes, this little guy was well worth the money!
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| scanner type | Film | 35mm, 126, 110 Negative & Slides | Film | Photo, Film | Film |
| connectivity tech | USB | No computer needed. No software needed. Works Stand Alone. | USB, HDMI | USB | HDMI |
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| media type | Slide, Photo, Negatives | 35mm, 126, 110 Negative & Slides, SD Card Included | USB | Slide, Negatives | Slide, Photo, Negatives |
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Returning it tomorrow
First the good. I bought this to scan in a bunch of old slides from 30-60 years ago. I already had an HP PhotoSmart scanner but at minute or more per slide it was not acceptable. This device was very quick and easy to use as advertised.Move onto the bad.The controls & menus are less than ideal but they get the job done. A couple of things like mirror & flip are quick and easy to do but others such as exposure take several clicks which could get very annoying if you have to do it often.And now to the unacceptably bad part.Into my third roll I realized that not only weren't the images as sharp as I'd have expected, all of them were less sharp on the right side. Testing my theory, I flipped some slides over, scanned, and saw that the previously blurred right side looked fine when it was on the left.I think a lot of people might not notice, just thinking "gramps" wasn't a good photographer or photos were naturally blurry in those days. But if I'm going to spend hours of my time scanning thousands of slides, ending up with a decent image is paramount. So it's all packed up and ready to be returned tomorrow.
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