Digital Film Scanner, High Resolution 16MP with 2.4" LCD, 4 in 1 Converts 35mm/135 Slides & Negatives, Photo, Name Card to Digital Files, Black

If you're older than 30, you probably know what I'm talking about... You have a box that's just filled with photos that you, or your parents, took when you were younger. You know, before everything went digital. Sometimes the photos survived, but most of the time they were in an album that sat out too long and started to fade. How do you recover those memories? I recently found a box full of pristine negatives from a trip I took to Russia when I was in high school. I didn't have many of the original photos, but the negatives were in great shape. That's where this product comes into play. One afternoon and a trip down memory lane later, and I have a nice digital collection of pictures from my trip, some I hadn't seen or thought about for years. Nostalga alone is worth the price! Now for the technical details. The scanner was well packaged and comes with everything you need to get going, except a memory card. It takes standard SD cards, which I had tons lying around, so that wasn't an issue. It comes with a USB cable and can be powered via a computer or by using the included power plug. It has gloves to protect your negatives and various adapters to fit slides, 35mm and other film sizes. I used this with 35mm film. Loading the film was easy and you have some basic options to improve the quality of the scan and the color. I think I'd likely use a photo editor on my computer to enhance some, but it's nice to be able to brighten up some of the darker pictures. Scanning is a breeze and then you can just connect the USB to your computer and download the files. In my images, you can see a picture I took from the Red Square and the final image is the scan uploaded from my computer. It looks great for a 30 year old negative! I highly recommend this scanner if you have a bunch of negatives lying around that you'd like to share digitally. It works great, is easy to use and really brings out a lot of fantastic memories.

How many of you still have 35mm films around? My parents do! How about 4"x6" and 5"x7" prints? Of course, we do! Digitizing them took a VERY long time: I'd have to take the prints, tape them to 8"x10" sheets, scan them at work, send the resulting PDF home, and edit/crop them out with Photoshop. Scanning films was impossible as I did not have equipment for it, and I started looking for a digitizer that could scan both films and prints. Bought this Qpix one on sale for $110. PROS - Scans multiple film negatives - Scans slides, business cards, and 3x5, 4x6, and 5x7 prints - Easy to use - Fairly fast scans - Can scan a whole roll of film at once - Saves to SD cards - Built in LCD screen to preview the scans before saving - Saves as JPEG files so you can share - 14 MP image sensor produces quite good scans - Does not require a computer (so, images are saved to SD card and can be read by Mac, Windows, Linux, etc) CONS - Pricey, though comparable to a similar Kodak scanner (but the Kodak cannot scan prints) - Manual has grammatical errors, but was easy enough to follow - Can only scan one print at a time, but can process a whole roll of a film Overall, despite the high price for these types of devices, it accomplishes what I needed -- and does it very well. Being able to save precious memories is PRICELESS.

I had hundreds of old 35 mm slides that are 50 years or more old. These two were taken in Feb 1968 at Houston Zoo. the slides were my dads, and these had been through a house fire, and I have stored them for years wondering what to do with them. I even stored them in my garage in Arizona in a carboard box for the last 16 years()Temps of 100 plus degree)s. I had little hope for the quality to be any good , but I purchased this machine because of some good reviews and just to see if I could covert these to digital. The original slides where taken with early 35 mm cameras and even a kodak stereo camera. So the quality is not nearly what you would get with todays cameras or even cell phone pics. The scanner does provide for some color adjustments, but these are copied just as they were taken. I also found it easier not to open the plastic tray but to but the tray out of the scanner and slip slides in and out without opening the tray. Opening the tray was a hassle. But by sliding out the slide and sliding another slide into the end slot it was a quick operation. Even the stereo slides which are a little smaller than a standard 35 mm slide worked great with one end of the slide sticking out but since is was basically a duplicate of the other slide that worked even better for reloading. I have not tried film or other size slides. I do have some old 2x2 slides but haven't figured out how to copy them. If you have old slides that you thought you would never be able to view again, go for it. It's worth the price to see these old pics of my parents I thought were forever lost.

This gizmo is totally unable to yield ANYTHING close to a good image from 8mm or Super 8 film. Pictured here is what was a good image on the original film itself -- and this is the result of scanning it with this QPIX product. We spent several hours on it (the instructions are awful) and this was the best I could get. Don't waste your money or your time on this this cheap gadget.

Going through old negatives is what this is about. And the quality of the pictures are as good as the negative can give. Remember the 110 cartridge films? While the picture is blurry, with a good photo editing you can clean it up, but never as good as the 35mm. The better negatives give a very good digital picture. I do wish it would take bigger negatives. I have some 2x3 and 4x6 B&W negatives from my parents. While the 2x3 will go into it, the area scanned is only the size of a 35mm.

While this device is pretty easy to operate, I was disappointed with the quality. I had to make adjustments to the color, contrast and brightness of every negative. It became more time consuming than I wanted to put in. I didn’t try slides with it. The photo scanning was ok except that it also captured the plastic frame that holds the photo. Which means additional time spent cropping photos. I have too many to spend the time doing that. I returned this device and bought the Kodak Scanza. It doesn’t do photos, but way better quality and almost no editing. I will purchase a separate high quality scanner once I’m done with my negatives and slides.

If you are a photographer like me with tons of old 35mm negatives and slides, you have likely tried a few different ways over the years to scan them. I have tried fairly high end flatbed scanners with negative capabilities, using my phone with a backlight source and I’m sure some other ways I can’t recall. The problem is those ways were A) Not super easy, B) Poor picture quality, C) Slow as hell or all of the above. This little device will NOT make it so you can do 20x30 prints of your negs but it will let you scan them very quickly and with enough quality to share online, etc. Most of all, it’s actually fun to use. The fact that it’s stand-alone makes it really easy too. I highly recommend this so long as your expectations are not super high in terms of the results.

I liked the fact I could now scan old photos and have them saved to a sd card. The problem occured when it was used the first time the secured photo fell into the scanner while removing the photo holder. Now it will not work at all. It appears it was a lesser quality product for this to happen. I was cautious when using the scanner but it broke. Contacted Amazon customer service and they provided me a link to contact seller on how I might be able to remove photo and fix scanner but the link was to return the product which would not allow me to contact the seller. I am extremely upset for the scanner was not inexpensive.