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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2018This 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.
