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Easy to Use.

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2019

We just shut down our Lab’s wet processor that printed digital images from files, slides and negatives - mostly 35mm and replaced it with an all inkjet printer. Only problem is how to convert the slides and negatives we occassionally get. After reading most of what was available on Amazon we decided to purchase this one from Sharper Image. Our decision was solely based on freedback. We got the copier in and have used it to copy several slides. The copier is easy to learn and use. Best of all quality of straight copies very good. Hardly any cropping of original - an important feature for us. We also liked the fact thst the copier can be used anywhere not just on the computer. Overall, very pleased and can recommend this copier with confidence.

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K. Murray

Be afrai, be very afraid

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019

If possible this POS would get a 0 star. It IS falsely advertised and not at all as shown. I found the whole device cheaply made. There is no slide loader as advertised. I have over 10,000 slides to convert so shoving them through three at a time, into this fragile piece of junk is unacceptable! There is no on board memory. The device is slow most slides, even professionally produced slides are out of focus . If you have 100+ bucks to throw away be my guest. Otherwise get something else, anything else is better than this atrocious piece of jumk. Additionally Amazon won’’t accept returns due to some bogus crap about explosive gas which is obviously a smoke screen for willfully permitting fraudulent advertising on their sight!

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MrEd

Easy to Use.

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2019

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Kara J. Jorges

Nice converter

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2020

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I bought this converter so I could get all my old negatives into electronic form. It comes with two trays; one to hold 35mm negatives and the other to hold slides. The machine itself has several different settings for slides, 35mm negatives, 35mm b&w negatives, plus 110 and 126. Though my 110 negatives weren't a perfect fit in the 35mm tray, I was able to make it work, though I wish they had included a 110 tray, or at least had a way to purchase one. You have to manually slide the negatives through the machine once they're locked in the tray and then push the button to copy each one, but it goes quickly. The machine is small and operates on a rechargeable battery that lasts a long time, so you can use it pretty much anywhere. I scanned my negatives while watching TV. It was easy to upload the images onto my computer from the SD card that's included, and I then I deleted the SD card so I could use it over. I'm glad I bought this device.

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Works Beautifully

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2020

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This product works just fine. It’s easy to use too. It converts negatives beautifully. Same with slides. Someone complained about the screen not being clear and it isn’t perfectly clear. However when transferred to a computer they are perfect! I’m enjoying this transformation of 60 year old slides and negatives.

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K. Murray

Be afrai, be very afraid

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019

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G Marsh

Super Easy!

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020

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I found this converter to be easy to use and produced good quality pictures of my parents' old slides. Only the very worst ones, taken in poor lighting were difficult to view and all that I digitized show up excellent on my computer. My husband was very grateful to be able to view very old slides from his military service. I would buy it again in a heart beat.

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Jim C.

Image wasn't so sharp.

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2021

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While I did not know what to expect, I've found the quality of the converted pictures to be less than I had hoped.

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Valerie

It works well.

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2022

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My husband loaded slides taken in Vietnam in the 70's and fading was expected but the images were good and he was able to download to the computer. Any further adjustments could be done there. He also loaded negatives of family that were very old and they turned out very well too. I haven't had the time to do mine from 1964 and 1976. But looking forward to good results.

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AncestorHunter

Another bust

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2019

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Might be fine for old home slides with no need for precision but this fell far short of my expectations based on other reviews. The unit itself is sturdy and physically tight, no wobbling slides. However, that's about the only good thing I can say. In the images shows you can see on the left a slide that was imaged by a professional company. On the left the same slide using this scanner is cropped and the skintones are yellow. The first time I tried this slide the face was a total whiteout. I had to set the exposure as low as possible to get this. It's so frustrating that there seems to be nothing out there to do a decent digital image of a slide.

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al jones

It does the job

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2020

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I have several hundred slides from when I was in service (that's 40+ years ago) and I transferred all of them (except one that I didn't find till later!) to my computer without any real aggravation. The slide tray could have handled four slides rather than just three, but as I said, it did the job and cutting my time by 1/4 wasn't going to save a lot.
My only complaint is that the ability to adjust "brilliance" seemed to be sorely lacking. I'd press the button to make it brighter and it's turn dark; I'd press it again and it would return to it's original brightness ... thankfully I was able to lighten most of them up on the computer.

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Mark S.

not too bad

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2021

Verified Purchase

Well. i purchased this for my mother who is going through many slides and scanning what she would like to keep. I would say overall functionality is pretty good. I would think by now the screen that you view the slides from would be a bit more sharp. Super easy to just move the tray, take a snap and move on. For what she is doing its going to work just fine. For the more pro results i'd spend a bit more and choose a scanner with higher res. view screen and some editing options.

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