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.

I looked into the digitising my slides via a company, but the cost was too great; advertise 30p per slide but that is only if you have thousands. I have culled mine to about 200 and was quoted £200. I bought from Amazon DIGITNOW FILM SCANNER, You will also need an SD card. It transfers negative and slides and lets you adjust resolution, (although I did not do that as I didn't understand it) and exposure, which I used a lot. There is an feed so you can stack your slides and easily scan them, a viewing screen so you can adjust exposure etc. The feeder does not work with plastic mounted slides but there is a 4 slide mount that you can put them in before you scan which is not too laborious. I didn't use that negative feeder. After you scan the slides onto the SD card you then connect to your computer and upload them. For speed, my computer is slow, I located the SD card on my computer then dragged the contents onto my desktop. The instructions are in Chinglish so it takes some patience to sort it out, also realising that slides are 'positives' (duh) but once I got it I was away. Top tip, it comes with a brush to clean the optic. when you do that make sure that the brush head is facing down, mine was facing up and I had a very panicky moment when it got stuck. It was such a great project and I really enjoyed 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!

Pleasantly surprised with this. I bought it to digitise my old slide collection and didn't have terribly high expectations given the price. However, it's simple to use and, viewed on a large screen TV the results are really pretty good. I haven't looked closely at the scans on a decent monitor yet, or tried to manipulate them but for casual showing to friends and family it's fine. The bulk slide loader is frustrating in that it jams easily but it's also easy to unblock. I scanned some 400 slides in a few hours then watched them by directly connecting the scanner via USB to my PS4. Simples and no extra power supply needed. The LCD screen is basic and low Res but the fact that the scanner does not need to be connected to a PC is a great benefit. This is not a scanner for the enthusiast but for digitising those old slides or 35mm film negs ( though I have not tried that yet ) it does a decent job.

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.

I have spent many hours going through the manual following instructions (to the letter), without success. The product ergonomics is not complicated to use and the instruction manual is simple and straight forward. 1. This item could work with SD card(less than or equal to 32 GB) IT DOES NOT. a. I purchased a 32 GB SD card for the equipment. I also have used a 16 GB SD card I had in my camera. Using the instruction manual the product will not copy slides or film negatives to these sim cards but I can use them in my camera to take pictures; b. From receiving the product I verify and validate both SD cards were functioning before I attached them to the equipment. The technique I used was to take a photo with my Nikon camera. Please explain how I could have taken a photograph with a locked SD card in my SLR camera (both SD cards were unlocked before use)? 2. When the films are scanned, you could connect the device to laptop with SD card to save the image. a. I tried that using the instruction manual but the product will not scan slides or film negatives to laptop or using the 32 & 16 GB SD card; 3. This item could scan different film, so please select the right film type before the device works. a. I have used the instruction manual for slide holder and negative film holder, the film fits into the holders and I can see the photo through the viewer; b. It doesn’t scan to SD Card or PC 4. After you scan, you can adjust the scan area and exposure. a. Using the instruction manual as my guide, the product will not copy/scan slides or film negatives to sim card or laptop. b. The product shows the slides/negatives over exposed through the view finder however, the actual slide/films are correct or under exposed; c. Using the instruction manual, none of the product edit functions adjust or modify the image using this product; 5. You could connect this item to laptop and edit the scanned image on PC. a. Using the instruction manual, the product will not connect/scan to 32 or 16 GB SD card or laptop; b. As per # 4 above and using the instruction manual, the equipment edit program will not edit film before I scan and I can't scan;

This is a good gadget, easy to use and giving results which are fair for the price - not good enough quality for a 'serious' photographer, perhaps, but just the job for giving a new lease of life to almost-forgotten holiday slides. But there seems to be a basic quality control problem, hence my 2-star rating. On the first one I got, the all-important On/Off/Menu button turned the screen on but the menu wouldn't open, making it unusable. I returned it (thanks, Amazon!) and ordered another. On the second one, the button worked well the first time I turned it on, but the next time it did nothing - I could see a light inside through the side slit, but the screen was dead. Nothing I could do would revive it, so back that one went for another refund, and I ordered a third. This one also refused to turn the screen on at first, but I persisted with my button-pressing and, hooray, after about 20 jabs it came to life and now seems happy to work whenever I ask it to. But it really should be easier than this!

I wanted to transfer slides to my laptop which it did very easily and successfully. The quality wasn’t brilliant but neither were the slides as they were old and the colour seemed faded. So it worked well for me. You can buy far more expensive equipment but I’m nit sure if in this case it would have been any better. So yes I am very pleased.

A pretty smart little machine. I've had trouble with negatives in that often the colour is not right, but realistically I'm not sure you would expect fantastic quality from a negative without the proper developing process? As for slides - absolutely brilliant. I've been working my way through my dad's old slides and copying them to digital format. The fact that you can pop a memory card into this little machine so you don't have to be tied to your laptop is fantastic. There are adapters for different size slides which is great, as the ones I am working through are all different sizes. Has not failed on any of the sizes. One of the adapters allows you to pile the slides up in in and then click through and save each picture. I would say you can probably fit about 15 slides in at a time, whereas it is four or six in the other adapters and each one is placed in its own little space so takes a bit more time. Picture quality is really good, when you consider than some of the slides are 60 or 70 years old. Customer service is slightly poor - I got an email through obviously to prompt a good review but when I asked a question about the settings the reply I basically got was 'if you have any problems then send it back to Amazon'. I think the sender was probably outside of the UK so there may have been a slight language problem. However, I worked the settings out for myself and all was great. Got this on a lighting deal so really pleased, but not 100% sure I would have paid the full price.