This item has a multi media viewer. It plugs into your computer for power. I do recommend an SD card if you’re scanning several items in a row.Very easy to use.I recommend this item.

I found a whole box of old negatives of all sizes. This scanned the 110 & the 135 great. Did about 450 in about 2 hours. Saved them to the SD card & transferred them to my computer.

I inherited lots of 35mm slides from my parents and this bit of kit is great for capturing them digitally to share with family. The internal memory only holds 4 or 5 captured images but you can add a n SD card for more memory. It is easy to move downloaded files on to you laptop via the connected cable. It does also capture 35mm negatives. I would recommend this bit of kit.

I found a whole tray of photo slides when I was cleaning but had no way to look at them. This device was perfect. It allows me to view them and save them to a storage media which I can take to Walgeens orWalmart and print off.

The item was easy to use and set up. I was copying 35mm slides. The holders for these closed with a snap, and this often caused some movement of the slide. The capture and edit were easy. The editing, of course, was basic. It will take Lightroom to finish these.

I just bought this Magnasonic All-in-One 25MP Film Scanner (FS70). I’ve been already using the Magnasonic All-in-One 24MP Film Scanner (FS71) for about a year. They are priced the same, so I was curious what the difference might be.The first image I posted is from the FS70, the second from the FS71.There are some differences in the scans. The new 25MP version seems to do a better job of automatically setting the exposure correctly and just looking at the full image without zooming the images look a bit sharper on the newer 25MP version. Strangely though when you zoom in you start to notice what I would call smearing or something to that effect, especially noticeable in black & white images. But you must really be pixel peeping to notice. When zooming in on the images on the 24MP version they look a bit sharper.It's an odd phenomenon. Like I said, looking at a full-size image side by side the newer 25MP looks cleaner and sharper. It may have to do with a better multi-element lens.Overall, I would recommend this, the newer 25MP, over the older 24MP version, just because it handles auto exposure better. With the older version I find myself constantly adjusting brightness setting, I don’t have to as much with the 25MP version.One caution, I noted a few slides that were badly unexposed looked fine on the screen but did not properly scan. Those scans look like a pink blob. Now I just check the image immediately after scanning a “thick” (dark) slide or neg just to make sure it scanned properly.I also should add I could find no difference in sharpness when scanning at the 13MP (2752x4128 pixels) or 25MP (4080x6112 pixels) settings. You simply get a larger image via interpolation when setting to 25MP, but if you want to save hard drive space you won’t lose anything by scanning at the 13MP setting.These scans don’t compare to a dedicated high-quality film-slide scanner, but then again, this method of scanning is way faster and the images produced do a fine job if all you’re going to do with the image is post to the web or social media.

A BRIEF HISTORYIn the early years as electronic imaging was catching on, the most practical way to convert film images to something digital was to use a flatbed scanner, such as the Epson V550 still being sold as of 12-2024. That system is ponderous, involving fiddly trays, a physically slow scan across the film, and prolonged processing time as those digitized images reach your desktop computer.But the image quality on a flatbed scanner can be scaled to suit your purpose, with higher resolution taking longer, making a bigger file size, and yielding excellent quality images. Or, you could dial back the quality and obtain an image more quickly, at a smaller file size that might prove adequate for web posting or emailing.More recently, products have come to market using an owner's high quality DSLR camera, adapted to essentially take a picture of the film image, thereby creating a digital file. If you have such a camera, great, because it's a faster way to accomplish the task, and the quality is considered on a par with flatbed scanning. All you have to buy is the box that fastens to the camera's lens. The unit holds the film and illuminates it as the camera takes a digital picture of it.But if you do NOT already have a high quality, purpose built digital camera (not a smartphone in other words), there would be a significant cost to expanding your photography in that direction.The Magnasonic is a small, desktop device, self-contained, that takes a digital picture of your film image and saves it to memory. The quality, however, is NOT as good as either method above. But it is a very fast way to obtain an adequate image that can be posted or emailed to someone.The practical resolution quality of this unit in this review is 13 megapixels, a number to compare with smartphones or digital cameras. There is no difference in quality when using this unit's "25MP" setting, although that selection creates a bigger image and a larger file size. As uploaded, the image on the left is 6112x4080 pixels at 4.7Mb file size, while the photo on the right is 4120x2752 pixels at 2.32Mb file size. If you download and zoom in, the detail is identical.The Magnasonic does not offer much in the way of adjustment for color and exposure. The images shown are right off a strip of Kodak Portra 800, shot at 400, uncorrected for color, but with exposure dropped by 2EV units to preserve highlights. I was able to improve upon color balance, brightness, and contrast after I moved the image to a desktop computer that has photo software. There is no provision to "crop" or zoom in on the existing film image, and no advantage to sliding the physical film left or right to improve the framing.This unit has a slot for an SD-type memory card, and you will need it. The internal memory can hold only 8 images on a film roll which is usually 24 or 36 frames. Also, it is easier to pull the high capacity memory card when you're done and move it to your computer, than it would be to utilize the USB cable and connection on the Magnasonic to extract images from its internal memory.As long as you can work within these limitations, this is a handy unit to quickly take a roll of film to digitize and send around to friends and family. Exceptionally good photos could later be scanned with other equipment at higher quality.Although one purpose of a unit like this is to archive old family photos taken years ago, another purpose serves present-day film photography. There's nothing quite like the experience of film, especially when educating yourself with an all-manual camera that requires you to think about shutter speed, framing, focus, shutter speed, and film type. Sharing the results, by using a unit like this, is an enjoyable & worthwhile pursuit. Product is RECOMMENDED.

I knocked off one star for the fingernail busting, fiddly, god awful slide holder. Here's a tip. The holders for the slides are terrible to open. Once you have got it open and put a slide in, closed it and slid it into the machine, you never need to open it again. This is because you just slide the next one in and it pushes them along, so keep a sacrificial slide, you know the green one from the end of the reel, in there to hold a place. It seems to be able to take the 35mm slides in a plastic mount too, provided they are the slim ones. Not sure about the chunkier plastic mounts are going to fare, but overall I am really pleased with this gadget for its ease of use.

I bought this to preserve my late parent's hundred of slides. It worked perfectly, right out of the box. Very simple device. You load up a thin plastic case with the slide or film, and push it into the machine by hand. The slide shows up on the screen, which is a pretty good high-resolution screen, and you click the scan button, and that's it. Saves everything to internal memory. There's another setting you use to upload the files to your computer. The device is already plugged in by USB cable so it's simple as can be to do the file transfer, but it is an extra step you need to do.

I have a ton of negatives and slides that not only have I created, but those that I have inherited from my parents. I just wanted a unit that was easy to use and made good digital images for storage. This scanner seems to fit the bill! The only problem is that it is a slow go to do the job. I'm retired so I have lots of time.

Highly recommended for saving pictures digitally.

I saw a few reviews on here about how it doesn't scan negatives. Well thats complete gibberish those people are confusing two different types of negatives and unsure the difference. This machine CANNOT scan non developed negatives right from a camera but it CAN scan developed negatives very well!! It saves them right to an SD card and also allows you to decrease the brightness on the machine to help see people's faces. I purchased the negative 35mm file extensions and they are an absolute must have to make your life easier. Definitely a great product for any family history person like myself.

This thing works well on 35 mm slides producing nice files that are very true to the original. But it does not scan negatives, it simple produces a jpg photo of the negative, which cannot be used to reverse the colour.So with that in mind, it works very well on slides. One bug bear - the file numbering system does not continue after removal of the SD card, it resets to zero, so, beware of duplicate file names. And the date time resets to 2019 after the power goes off . . .Hey! Waddaya want for 165 bucks??