DIGITNOW!High Resolution 135 Film/Slide Scanner, Slide Viewer and Convert 35mm Negative Film &Slide to Digital JPEG Save into SD Card , with Slide Mounts Feeder No Computer/Software Required.

One of the best things I've bought in a long time.Mum had in excess of 300 Agfa slides that we wanted to digitise.Set up was simple and I was able to get the lot done in a matter of hours. So much cheaper than getting a local firm to do it.

Just like most people buying a product like this, I have hundreds of old 35mm sides put away in boxes and never looked at. I thought I'd buy this and finally store at least some of the slides. I unpacked and read the quick instructions and was up and running in a few minutes. I tried the flat 4-window carrier and it worked just fine but was rather slow so I tried the stack filler. This worked fine with the thicker plastic slides but kept jamming with cardboard or very thin slides. However, I found that, even just putting the slides in one by one into this carrier, it was quicker than using the flat 4-window carrier. You have to push the slide in carefully to prevent misalignment, but all in all the system worked fine.It's difficult to comment on the sharpness or colour accuracy without projecting the slides and comparing with the scanned image but they looked fine and I was happy to have digitised versions of those old images. You can see each silde on the front projected face and you have the chance to adjust brightness/exposure before pressing capture. I just left it in mid position. The other choice is resolution 5 or 10M. I changed to 10M each time I turned the machine on. It plugs into a USB port to power up . You have to have a SD card pushed into the card slot for the machine to work even if plugged into a computer's USB port, which also powers the device.On my Windows computer, the machine appears as a folder and you can copy the photos and paste as you wish. Sometimes you have to pull the plug out and push back in again and do the same with the SD card on occasion.The machine also stores the images on the SD card and you can view them and delete if you wish from the computer or in stand-alone mode.Overall, the scanner does it's job. Not sure whether purists will find the images of the highest quality, but the machine is not expensive and is far better than the last one I had.I'm very pleased to have it and finally be able to show old pictures to my highly amused children!

Very useful piece of equipment particularly if you have a lot to do. I needed to digitise quite a few 35mm, half frame and some larger square format slides. There is no provision for the latter so while they can be fed in they will be cropped. I found that the feed mechanism sometimes jammed. Also slides with a thicker plastic mounting would not fit into the feeder. Quality is ok though I feel that some fine tuning of the focus would have been useful given the varying thickness of slide mountings. The instructions are not good and you need to have a practice session before throwing away any slides. Mine broke down after doing quite a few slides and refused to copy more than one slide at a time without being restarted. It is being returned but I will buy a replacement as I expect I had just a bad example. I suppose that I had done about 800 slides and the rest of the device is still in very good order. I had expected some wear on the feed mechanism but this was not the case. Negative digitising is fine but obviously more fiddly as feeding has to be done with a tray. A good way of getting slide copying done.Unfortunately the price of this item has increased significantly so will now be looking for an alternative.

Product does exactly what it says & excellent assistance and customer service from the seller!I spent time reading people's reviews and even asking questions about a couple of different devices before selecting this one. I initially had some difficulties totally due to my own misunderstanding that the product requires an SD card to operate you can not simply plug in the usb lead to computer and scan/view/save to computer you need to do this to the SD card and then connect and view on the pc.I received EXCELLENT and speedy responses from Sonya when I contacted the seller and resolved this issue.I scanned close to 1000 images from slides and a few from negatives. I was very satisfied with the functioning of the device, it's ease of use (once I understood my misconception), and the quality of the digital images. I would note the quality was entirely dependent on the quality of the image on the slides as I found varying degrees of quality in the images I was working with. Also I had some 'issues' with some of the square slides as they didn't fit properly in the slider and the images were cropped but they are probably the wrong size for this machine. Also some slides were thicker and again didn't slide using the feeder attachment but could be put through using the other attachments they were just a bit more time consuming.This item was purchased to be used to convert old family slides etc to digital as a surprise birthday present, it was so successful the device is now on lone to other members of the family in order for them to convert theirs. We are very happy with the results and price of this device.If you have various sized slides, or varying thicknesses check that before you buy this one. If you want more fancy options for the software then spend more on a device that has those options.