135 Film Slide Scanner Converts Negative,Slide&Film to Digital Photo,Supports MAC/ Windows XP/Vista/ 7/8/10

I did like how well the quality of the slides I transferred to my computer turned out. The slides were 50 years old. If your slide was good quality picture to start with the transfer was equally well.I disliked I could not get the disc operating to download software. I did download directly from site and it worked. The slide tray was difficult to slide though the opening and quickly broke one of the small hinge doors on unit. However it did not affect the unit operation. Overall good for price.

Spent two months dealing with there tech support. Explained my issue, then answered their questions, which made it evident they never read my issue. Really only answered one question that they asked multiple times, and "no, an icon does not get created on my desktop after I run the install software". After calling them on there lack of support I was told the solution is I need to buy a new computer. How they can jump to that after only asking about an icon being made is beyond me. Its a 2 year old Dell PC running windows 10 that works fine with every other peripheral I've used with it.

You load up to 4 slides into a holder and then slide the holder through the scanner. However the holder is a bit too big to slide through.It goes part way in and then binds. After lifting and peeking through the door, looking for obstructions, I see a little metal tab. Looking at the holder, I confirm it has the proper orientation. There is a 45 degree indent on the leading edge, to press down on the tab as the holder slides in. Then there is an indent for each of the 4 slide positions. Confident that I'm proceeding correctly, I force the holder through the scanner. It binds then squirts ahead with so much force that it doesn't stop at the positional indents. I try again and am able to eventually line up the holder for scanning.The actual scanner and software are simple to use.

I had an old slide that got left out of a digital service and hated to pay again for one. So, I got this primarily to do one slide. Someday I may want to recover more old slides or negatives, so it's worth keeping, I guess, especially since the price has really gone up for this.Pros: plugs into USB port to view on computer, which I like. The photo quality is good. There are editing tools available, but the first shot was fine for me. The slide holder worked nicely. A brush is included and works to dust the slide.Cons: What is with the mini CD? It's totally worthless for us Mac users, and it won't work in an external drive. I had to go to the website to download the software. I had a hard time getting the slide holder open. It closes tightly, so that's good because the slides won't move. But I was afraid I might break it. I didn't try the film holder. The slide holder was a little difficult to insert, but once I got it turned correctly, it was easier. I had to readjust it to fit squarely according to the computer screen. Not hard, just jiggle around.Overall, it met my need. Someday I'll look for more slides and negatives I couldn't afford to digitize professionally. Then I'll know better how it is.

This DIY scanner allows me to scan my negatives and save in digital format. One touch operation, pictures save to your computer. If I had professional transfer my negatives, Would be expensive since I have thousands of old pictures on negatives and they charge for each picture. This scanner is inexpensive and I can scan myself.

This is not exactly a film scanner. Instead it projects light through the film and takes a picture. This process is what gives the included program the ability to give you a live preview of the image, but it is also its main flaw. When you are previewing the image you can see the pixels flicker with noise, and once you hit scan, it takes a snapshot, noise and all. On top of that, the image resolution isn't that great at the sizes it makes the pictures.The software has a second issue. It attempts to auto-correct the colors, contrast, etc. of your image; however, there is no way to crop the area being captured. As a result, the software looks at quite a bit of the area of the negative beyond the image, which throws off the balance. As others have said, you'll want to pull the image in to editing software, crop it, then do color adjustments.All in all, the images can be passable if cropped, colored, and downsized to the size they would have been printed originally. If you want photo print quality, it might be worth spending a little more.

I had forgotten about slides I shot during a 1984 trip to the U.K. I suspected that they were not salvageable, and I did not want to spend a lot of money to find out they were not. This product reproduced every one of the slides, almost all of the scanned versions in excellent condition!

The only positive thing I can say about this scanner was it was packaged well, it had a decent manual and set up process BUT I followed the manual instructions, I loaded the software from cd, loaded my negative film into the holder and plugged the unit into the computer, power light was on, software was running but when I push the scan button nothing happens and the worst part of this scanner was there was NO troubleshooting in manual or online, no customer service number in any of the package material. This is junk don’t waste your money.