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!

Digitising thousands of old slides is a very slow process. This scanner does speed up the process, but it leaves something to be desired in the quality of the images. The default setting seems to over expose the slide so that the highlights are washed out. This can be corrected by underexposing the slide and then using something like Lightroom to recover the underexposed image. Even so, this is difficult to judge and you frequently end up with some washed out highlights. So, basically the sensor has an inadequate dynamic range, and I have had a couple of slides which it has refused to scan, I think because if contrast problems.It has also become apparent that the image is cropped when scanned. This is most annoying when you have filled the frame with your shot and you have to adjust the position of the slide holder so you get either the top of someone's head or their feet in the scanned image when both are well in the original slide!The automatic slide feeder is problematic. It has a tendency to feed two slides at once if you are scanning slides with thin plastic holders and jam altogether if the slides are in the older cardboard holders. I have had to use the slide tray and this works reasonably well.So, this scanner does a job, but not very well and I cannot recommend it.

This is a great scanner for converting slides into jpeg files for viewing / storing on a computer. I've got an Epson full size scanner which can scan slides but the process of loading the slides is quite fiddly and time consuming.For amateur 35mm slides, this scanner is ideal since the slides can be stacked in the tray and each slide only takes about 1 - 2 seconds to scan with the sliding tray arrangement being very efficient. With a bit of practice a box of 36 slides can be scanned in less than 5 minutes.A few reviewers have given adverse comments on the instruction manual and it's true that it's not that brilliant. However the menu system is quite simple so, although an OAP, I managed to work out how to use it in a few minutes. The main thing to note is that you have to scan the slides or film to an SD card (not supplied) and then transfer the images as a separate operation. I use a MAC and when I connected the scanner, it recognised the SD card in the scanner as an external drive without any driver or setting up being required. Its then a matter of copying them in the same way as with a memory stick or any other external source. I purchased a 16GB card (approx £7) and with each standard resolution scanned image being about 1MB this card will hold around 16,000 pictures! On a test print on photo paper the 1MB image on A4 is perfectly acceptable. Once the images are scanned into the computer they can be manipulated in the same manner as any other image using photo processing software.I haven't tried the scanner with colour or B&W negative film so can't comment on that facility but for old 35mm slides this scanner a fast and effective way of creating digital files from them.