Magnasonic All-in-One High Resolution 24MP Film Scanner, Converts 35mm/126KPK/110/Super 8 Films, Slides, Negatives into Digital Photos, Vibrant 2.4" LCD Screen, Impressive 128MB Built-in Memory

I was surprised at how well this worked and how fast and easy. With a shoebox of negatives to scan, I figured I would give it a shot, half expecting to return it. I didn’t even realize the brand name was Magnasonic instead of Magnavox until a dub after I got it, so I was not expecting much. I’ve now had it for about a week and scanned in about 1500 negatives. The speed is amazing considering what it’s like using a flatbed scanner to scan photos. You can slip in a negative and go through the 4 photos in seconds. It actually takes about 3 seconds to scan each photo/negative. Click click slide. Repeat. That’s it. I haven’t had to adjust the color on many photos, but occasionally the whole roll of film will have a color cast to the pictures and using the settings to tweak it a bit saves a lot of post-processing time. I will say that you definitely have to be careful and proactive about keeping it dust free. Every few negatives I’ll give that internal glass a wipe with that lint brush that’s included. One little fiber and you’ll have a line on all your photos. One downside that I found is not really a fault of the scanner but just something to be aware of that takes extra time. Some film processors attached paper strips to the negatives. Those need to be removed before scanning as they don’t fit in the bracket. I’ve also scanned in several color slides and was just as happy. They take a little longer as you have to place each one in the bracket separately, but that actual scan still takes 3 seconds. All results are of course very dependent on the quality of the original photo. Clear sharp negatives look amazing even when zoomed in. Slightly blurry or over/under exposed photos might be disappointing when viewing them on a PC, but if you view the, smaller they should be as good as a print. Overall, I couldn’t be happier. Using this with google photos to sync all my pictures to the cloud means I have a great archive of my family photos and access to them from anywhere. Other items to note: Scans are in jpg format. No raw images. Internal memory holds less than 40 photos but using an SD card instead more convenient and holds hundreds or more depending on the size. I saw somewhere in a q&a from the seller that you could scan movies by grabbing each frame and then using software (not included) to convert the still images to a moving picture. That may be possible but would probably take forever. They should just say no, it just takes still images off movie film. Lastly, if you load the negative wrong, you can flip and mirror the image with a quick click, but it’s often difficult on the tiny screen to tell if the images is flipped left to right (mirrored). You may end up needing to fix those later on a PC. I’m sure if you look at the coding on the negative you can load them right each time.

Note that this is NOT a scanner. This nifty piece of equipment takes a digital image of slides (or negatives). The average scan time for an 80-slide carousel was about 30 minutes. Don’t expect great quality in the images and do expect to spend time using photo-editing software to perfect the “scanned” images. If you end up wanting even small format prints (i.e. 4x6) you’ll want to copy directly from the slides. That being said, the quality is good enough for sharing decades of wonderful memories and it will give you and your family digital images that can be enjoyed by all and will preserve them in case something catastrophic happened to the original slides.PROS: 1) Easy to use. 2) The slide adapter seems pretty flimsy, but it’s remarkably sturdy and it functions well. 3) Adjusting the color saturation (especially for red) worked better than I thought it would. 4) The unit reminds you to insert an SDHC card which is very helpful.CONS: 1) The brightness control doesn’t always work. 2) There is an internal 2013 date that can’t be changed, so if you use an SDHC card for saving images this “system” date will be on all of your images. What this means is if you use Shutterfly (for example), it will put your uploaded images on your 2013 timeline instead of on your 2017 timeline. This is irksome at best. 3) The “Flip” setting doesn’t reset after you flip a slide image, which I didn’t figure out until l I had scanned and uploaded about 30 slides. The first one was backward, so I flipped it not knowing that setting would “stick.” This resulted in the remaining slides being scanned backwards which I didn’t catch until I had uploaded them to my laptop.One more note about adjusting the brightness: As another reviewer stated, “Blown out slides will still be blown out.” I agree. Using the brightness controls to adjust the contrast for these will only make a darker “blown-out” image. You can brighten dark slides to some degree, but I found that the setting didn’t work very often.All in all, this is a quick and easy way to digitize thousands of slides (which is what I’m doing). TIP: Use the included dust-remover wand often to clean the glass!

I was surprised when I got this because it looks so flimsy that I thought it was not going to work. But it not only works well, it is as easy as counting to 3 to use. The directions were not easy to read, but it is very intuitive to use, so I just tried it out, and I love the results.It not only makes a nice, large digital copy of your slide, it also can change the lighting so you can get darker slides to look good in the digital copy. And it copies directly to an sd card (I bought one--doesn't come with), so you can use it in your computer to modify or resize. It does come with a cable to attach to a computer, but I prefer to have my photos on an sd card and use them that way, so I didn't try the cord yet.It makes the copy in just a few seconds! You can go through a stack of slides in just minutes, and you have them all ready to modify or print that fast. I have not used the negative copier yet, but I probably will. So even though it looks flimsy, it works like a charm and is worth every penny if you have a bunch of digital photos you want from slides or negatives.I can't rate the durability yet because I have only had it a few months, but I may add something later if I need to.