Purchased as a gift. Very well recieved

No dislikes. It works perfectly. I love the way it changes a negative into a positive.Very low learning curve.

This film scanner makes very good quality images of 35 mm slides at the 14 MP setting -- better than I expected. Certainly good enough for what I was doing, which was digitizing about 30 carousels of old slides from the 70s and 80s. The auto-exposure feature worked quite well. I only adjusted the brightness on a few slides, which were pretty dark, or had both light and dark areas. And the scanning process is quick and easy. You generally have three slides in the tray at all times, holding the left and right ones, then pushing left or right to center the one in the viewer. Push two buttons (SCAN and OK) to take the snapshot, wait two seconds, then push the next slide into the tray on the right, which "ejects" the slide on the left. The tray holds the slides perfectly centered vertically, so nothing to adjust there. (But you do need to turn portrait shots 90 degrees and capture them sideways, then rotate them back upright later on your computer. No big deal.)So the scanning process is very straightforward and simple; that's the good news. The BAD news is that the slides are cropped quite a bit left and right. I'd say about 1/8" on both sides. You can see this in the viewer. As you push the slide leftward to see the last bit of picture on the right, the left edge of the picture begins to disappear. This was a major disappointment for me and totally unexpected. Why isn't this in the product description? Why would you design a machine this way? I was hoping it was just being cropped in the viewer, but not so -- it's a WYSIWYG kind of deal. It only saves what you see in the viewer. So I decided (initially) that I could live with it, especially for the low cost of the scanner. Most of my slides were easy to crop. Less blue sky or rocks in the foreground, etc. But I found more and more as I went along that some slides were very difficult to crop -- had to cut off tops of heads or important objects in scenery at both left and right edges. But I plodded on nonetheless. After scanning about four carousels of slides (~ 500 slides), I uploaded the last batch to my computer and noticed that there was a "half-moon lint" mark on one of the images in the lower left corner. Yikes. I then cleaned the scanner screen inside with the brush (which BTW, needs to be held with the felt side DOWN -- not documented anywhere) pretty vigorously and did another scan of the slide. No change - mark still there. Whoa. I then powered up my air compressor to about 50 PSI and blew air into the scanner on both sides, which certainly should have dislodged any stray particles. Did another scan... still there! Holy crap. How long has this mark been there? I then checked all the slide images on my computer and discovered to my total shock that the mark was on every single image! All 500 of them. Wow. Major malfunction! It was at this point that I decided to call it a total loss and give up on this scanner. I could've returned it for a replacement of course and started over, but I decided that I would much rather pay more and get a scanner that does not crop the slides so much. That ended up being more of a problem than I thought.One other note -- I ended up buying a 32 GB SD card so I could scan a whole carousel at a time, then upload everything to my computer via USB and delete the files on the USB drive (on the computer). But the built-in memory holds about 45 scans, so if you don't have thousands of slides to scan, you could just use the built-in memory and do the upload/delete process more often. FYI - the 32 GB card can hold over 4,000 scans.So in summary, this scanner produces as good a quality image as most scanners on the market and is a bargain for the price if you can live with the cropping issue. Just be sure to do a few test scan first and look at them on your computer to verify that there are no flaws.

I was a little skeptical about ordering this. It didn't take me long to do it, when I checked in on the high cost of the advertising companies I had seen on Facebook and on TV. I figured if they could get a converter, so could I and save hundreds or more dollars in cost. Well, I haven't regretted buying this little dream Converterfrom from Amazon.I had a larger one by Digitnow, I had used before, but it required software which I have conveniently misplaced. This one does the job quiet fair, but some pictures do not come out with true color. That is not related to the converter not doing it's job, no, that is the age of the slides and film. Mine are over 40 + years old. I do not have a problem with that. I have editing in my Windows Photo Viewer. It has the capability of clearing the slides, adding correct coler, tint, etc to make me happy. This converter uses no software, which is great, for I can use the slide compartment from my other Digitnow Converter, you will see it in my picture. It holds about 30 slides and all I did was insert it in the smaller Digitnow Converter, insert slides with the lever, upload to the SD Card, insert card into my laptop and upload slides to it. Now I put the pictures on a DVDR Disc for saving. Wala! It is so easy to use, does a great job on slides, film and I saved a lot of money. Before you spend a the high cost of letting a company digitize and place your memories on a DVD-R, pick this little gem up, do it yourself and put your money to better use.

Plastic lens and poor lighting, paired with inexact trays into which negatives are placed. Hard to slide tray in and out. Very time consuming.Magnification hardly worth the effort in the 2" viewing screen, can barely make out detail. For a person needing reading glasses this product is too much work with very poor product directions.I have boxes of negatives to preview from my mother's estate and needed something that would allow me to view a multitude of negatives quickly. Instead I turned my laptop over on its back, and opened a blank Word document to create a lighted background (similar to a lightbox), and used a standard handheld 3" diameter magnifying glass, held about 3-4" away from the negatives. Very inexpensive and MUCH better magnification and viewing with this larger field. And so much easier to go through bunches of negatives. In this way I could easily separate negs into keep/don't keep piles. As my mother traveled extensively I had no need to keep her many pictures of scenery from her travels. Any keepers of say, family members or important events I could set aside for poss. printing or at least labeled storage.My local custom photo shop had suggested using a lightbox and a printer's or photographer's loupe that sits directly on top of the negative on the lightbox, however you have to bring your eye down directly above the loupe to see the details and the field is only about 1.5-2", which is not comfortable after about 5 negatives.