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This is one of the slickest products I have ever used. Got it last night and scanned my 20+ year old wedding photos within the first few minutes. Yeah, I'm sure you could get slightly better picture quality from a professional scanner by spending hundreds of dollars more, but I am an imaging perfectionist and I am thrilled by the bang-for-the-buck of this scanner. For photos that are only going to be viewed on a computer monitor or as 4x6 or 5x7 photos, this thing is amazing. If you are a professional, looking to create image files for commercial purposes, this is not your scanner. But if you're like me, with boxes of deacdes-old 35mm negatives (or slides) that you simply want to add to your digital collection, this will not disappoint. It is so fast and easy to use. Stick in an SD card, turn it on, and stick in your negatives. It scans and saves each one in <5 seconds. The live-view screen is wonderful, and the fact that you can do all this without a computer is fantastic. I plan to scan negatives from my sofa, while watching TV tonight.

My only nit-picks are that I don't like the way the USB/power connector attaches. I may tape it in place so that the leverage of the 90-degree angle doesn't accidentally break it. The images are coming out just a tad over-exposed, but not blown out. The best photos may get a minor Lightroom tweak just to take the exposure down a tiny notch. The color and focus seem just as good as what the original SLR produced all those years ago. Yeah, it picks up more dust than you can imagine, but that's hardly the scanner's fault. So far I've used it on Kodak and Fuji negatives and it adjusts to the differences quite well, and automatically. (I used to work at a photo lab and we had to program the big beasts with different "recipes" for the different film stocks, and if you told it the wrong type, the colors would be off. This little baby seems to do all that automatically just by optically scanning the film base.) It uses LEDs for the scan light, so it should last forever. (Of course, once you're done with your negatives you can always resell it to the next guy.)

I dare say that it's fun to use, especially seeing all those long-forgotten photos now becoming accessible again. I was a little hesitant to buy it - how good could it be for the price? Great decision. Great little product. You can even pay your kids to do the scanning... it's that easy. BUY IT - you'll really enjoy it.

I am quite satisfied with the product. It gives good results and is a much faster method of copying slides than trying to do them on my Epson scanner. My slides are mostly 50 years or more old. Ove the years, being in and out of slide projectors, various boxes, etc. many of them have accumulated dust particles, some fingerprints, and other things that show up on the scan. Bottom line---The scanner does good. The main problem is to get slides cleaned up enough that a good scan can be made. This is not a trivial matter for old slides, and is probably going to take one longer than actually using the scanner.