I have only had this for one day, but it is the best hundred buck investment I have made in a long time. I have scanned about 50 slides from my father's Navy days back in the mid-1950s. These slides are over 60 years old. Amazing, amazing, amazing!!! The little slide holder is perfect. You just slip it in the slot and then push your slides through one at a time. They push each other along and out the other side. When you see one you want to save, you just push the scan button and confirm. Done. Best of all, you can put an SD card in it (which I did) and just sit comfortably on the sofa and go through them without having to be connected to your computer. When you are done, you just take the card out, plug it into your computer, and import as if you had connected a camera. So easy. I never thought it would be so simple to save these old treasures. I can't speak for durability or performance with negatives or 8mm films, but for slides this thing is awesome!
UPDATE : I added a sample. This was taken from a 35mm slide that was created in 1955/56. See for yourself!
LOVE this thing! I had two boxes of old, already developed Advantix film, and tons of 35mm negatives from my Navy days. I bought this to prevent them from being lost forever, as the shoeboxes they live in are nearing end of life. I never expected to add a service to my business as a result of this purchase, but I did! This thing is soooo fast! I processed 10-years worth of photos in one night! (Scanning only, still had to go back and crop, rotate, etcetera.). I am VERY pleased! Also, the memory card option means you can take this anywhere, scan your photos or your customer's photos, and take it home for final processing. So many good features!
NOTE: For the Advantix film, there isn't a guide set for that size. I used the 35mm guide, and just held the film in place as I hit the scan button to prevent warping (film negative bending). What little warpage was left I was able to crop out. This is not at all a problem with the 35mm negative guide. Just to be clear.
Yes it was slow and tedious but only took me a week total to scan in all my negative and did so while watching netflix. Was easy to connect, operate, and navigate between the various negatives. My only suggestion is to make sure you dust off negative prior to scanning them really well or you will not only end up with them on you scanned images but you will also end up cleaning out the machine more than you want. This is just one of the examples of the scan it did on a 110 neg from almost 20 yrs old no that great of a shot and negs were not in the best of condition but scanned on the 22 mp and it turned out better than I could have ever hoped for.
I'm a semi-pro photographer, but all of my pro work has been done with a digital camera. I have quite a bit of experience adjusting digital images, so I feel like I can give a useful review of the negative scanning process and this particular device. The negatives that I want to scan were from my "fully amateur" film shooting days. In other words, they're just snap shots of varying quality. I also retrieved quite a few negatives from my early childhood from my parent's house. I had looked at negative scanners in the past, but never pulled the trigger. When I saw this one on sale just before Christmas, I gave a strong hint to my wife and lo and behold it showed up under the tree!
Technically, it is exactly what you see in the product photo. I've only used the 35mm negative adapter, but it holds the strips very well. The process involves manually positioning the negative so that you center it with the viewfinder. Once that's done you press the "scan" button and then the "ok" button. The processor takes the photo and maybe 2 seconds later you have a 14mp file. There are rudimentary exposure and color adjustments and they are fine for my purposes. I use Adobe Lightroom and plan on doing additional color correcting once I have all the photos scanned. You can use Preview on the Mac for one-at-a-time processing and cropping and it works pretty good also.
I haven't tried other negative scanners, but I can tell you for sure that if you have the negatives, this is definitely the way to go (vs. scanning the prints). I suspect all of the scanners in the $100 price range will give similar results. I used this device in my lap while sitting on the sofa watching TV over the Holidays and ended up filling up a 2GB SD card over the course of a day. It was around 450 images. I have quite a ways to go, but the task is now within reach.
I had one image from my 8th grade graduation. It was a wide angle shot showing the attendees. I tried using the 22mp setting and was able to see a difference when zooming in to try and recognize people. That's the one use I can see for the interpolated higher res setting. Otherwise I intend to use the 14mp standard setting. From what I can remember 12mp cameras were the point at which reviewers started saying that digital images equalled film. I certainly believe that this scanner is capable of extracting "everything" from the 110 camera that my Mom used way back when and also most of the snapshots that I took with my Canon film Rebel in the early 90's.
In short, if you don't know whether this scanner is adequate for you, then I'm 99% sure that it is. IF you're doing mission critical pro work, then you might want to look elsewhere. It won't work miracles. If you have poorly exposed or blurry negatives, then that's what you'll get. However, if your negatives are decent and the exposure is within a half-stop of being correct, then you will have very good results with this scanner.
I have had a lot of enjoyment seeing old 3" x 5" prints displayed even on the little built in screen, but they're really enjoyable on the typical screens on today's desktops and laptops at full screen size. It's a memory saver if your prints are damaged!
All it says it is. I was considering having to buy a new scanner to transfer my 35mm slides to a digital format. When I saw this I thought I would give it a try as cost wise I felt I didn't have anything to loose. Well after transferring about 75 slides I am in love with it. The transfer rate is fast and the quality is a lot better than expected. The internal storage isn't all that great (about 28 slides) but there is an expansion slot. I find that just filling it up and then transferring them to my computer works well.
There is some editing features but the only one I recommend using is the 'flip' feature. If you are like me you have a favorite picture editing software product on your computer which you are comfortable with; use that.
Feature Product
- Scans & Digitizes 35mm Slides & Negatives, 110, 126 KPK, and Super 8 Slides & Negative
- Included Speed Loaders Means No Reload for Each Slide/Negative
- Built-In Software Interpolation Can Improve Quality to 22 Megapixels
- No Computer Required; Saves to Internal Memory or Optional Memory Card
- Video Out for TV Connection (Cable Included); Mac & PC Compatible
Description
NOTE: this is not a flatbed scanner, there is a 14mp camera built into the device that takes a snapshot of the film, if you are looking for HIGH quality scans please look for a flatbed scanner, this device is designed to quickly scan through old memories with good quality.
Please note the scanner can only scan film that has PREVIOUSLY BEEN DEVELOPED PROFESSIONALLY, it cannot develop or scan raw film.
Have any old films or slides? Here's the perfect device to help you easily organize and eternalize them. This scanner sports a powerful 14-megapixel sensor that reads every detail contained in your 35mm, 110, 126, and Super 8 slides and negatives. You can choose between the standard 14-megapixels scan, or enable the built-in software interpolation, which applies some image magic and ups the quality to an astonishing 22MP.
All you need to convert your images is included in the box - advanced technology leave no need for a computer connection to operate this scanner. It scans and converts images on its own, making it a very portable, accessible solution. It also includes speed-load adapters that make scanning easy and straightforward. Simply push them into the device, and you can feed in slides or negatives one after the after without needing to remove and reload the adapters. Press the "Scan" button when ready. Snap! The image digitizer scans and converts your old memories into sharp, vibrant digital images in JPEG format. Images are saved to the internal memory or an optional SD card. These can then be viewed on your computer or printed out as photos.
Once scanning is complete, the built-in 2.4-inch color LCD screen will display your image. A clever piece of software allows you to flip & mirror the scanned image around by pressing a few buttons. This helps compensate for user error during scanning, and also adds some flexibility with image conversion.
This scanner is perfect for digitizing my father's slide collection. To use it, I simply feed the slides into a slot on the side and push a couple of buttons. Without an SD card, the unit holds about 45 images, which I can upload to my PC with a USB cable (appears in Windows Explorer as an external device, like connecting a camera). The images are satisfactorily clear using the default settings. My whole family is so excited to see these "long-lost" pictures again!
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to use it (the instructions being somewhat lacking), so here is what you need to do for basic scanning of slides:
1. Plug unit into PC via USB cord.
2. Insert slide feeder into slot on the right side until it clicks into place.
2. Turn on unit via power button (red circle).
3. Push "mirror" button twice to get to "film type" option, then push "OK"
4. Push "flip" button to select "slide positive", then push "OK".
5. Push "OK" to select 135-type slide (the default, since it is the most common).
6. The unit then goes into capture mode, and displays the image to be scanned (which will be blank if you have not put in a slide).
7. Feed the first couple slides into the unit from the right, until you see the image of the first slide.
7. Push "Scan Menu" (which will display options with "save" being the already highlighted), and then push "OK".
8. Push another slide into the right side of the unit (first slide will come out of the left side), and repeat step 7.
9. When you are ready to upload images to PC, push "scan menu", and click "flip" twice to highlight "home", then click "OK". On main menu, click "flip" 3 times to highlight "USB MSDC", and then click "OK". This will make the unit available to your PC. Copy the images to your PC, and then use your PC to delete them from the scanner.
This is a very easy to use scanner for slides and negatives. Quality is good. If you want to convert your old slides to digital format, this is an inexpensive way to do it. Just be aware that it doesn't quite live up to the sales pitch. The monitor is so small and awkward, that it is nearly worthless except as a basic previewer. You really need to load the slides to the scanner one at a time, and then load them to your computer to really see what you've got. Then you will need to do a bit of tweaking in a photo program to get the colors right. It's not hard, but after reading the blurb about the unit, I expected to be able to zip through my thousands of slides using the scanner as a stand alone device. I was shocked the first time I used it. The tiny screen showed a very mottled image, and I had to hold the scanner on it's side to see anything at all. As others have noted, the screen should be on the top of the unit. But I worked with it for a while, and the end results were quite satisfactory. Spend a little time learning how to use it correctly, and you won't be disappointed. Quality is good, price is reasonable, and the seller shipped very quickly.
Yo, AMAZON, you sent me a scratched product!! My JUMBL arrived SCRATCHED on the small LED screen. Thanks oh so much for the screw up. The product actually deserves five stars. I love this little device. It certainly beats having to send off boxes of Kodachrome slides from the 1960's. I refuse to send my old slides out of my home to have them converted from a slide format to a jpg. The slides I have were originally shot on 110 film. I noticed that if I pulled the slide under the 110 setting, it seemed to crop out some of the original photograph. I tried to then pull as a 126, and then a 35 mm. Guess what?? I actually saw more of the original photograph when I used the 35mm setting on these old 110 slides. I ended up pulling some really special photos, under each of these three settings. I noticed I had discoloration problems. I tried correcting this on the MacBook Pro, using iPhoto software. I actually pulled the photos again from the JUMBL device. This time, I enjoyed color correcting from the JUMBL device. Just be sure to be weary of dust!
I had seen some of these small negative scanners a few years ago and they were mostly low resolution and seemed to have mediocre reviews. This one surprised me with the 22MP resolution so I decided to try it out. I have hundreds of old B&W Negatives from my high school years as a journalism photographer for both our weekly newspaper and yearbook. And since I'm not going to set up a darkroom ever again, this gives me a quick and easy way to digitally convert them for sharing on the computer. It works very and is relatively easy to use with a simply flip thru menu. I have converted both B&W negatives and color slides. I am very happy with it. The only small criticism I have is that the scanner "crops" the sides of the negative a bit. For most people this might not matter, but as a quality photographer I always "filled my frame" so to speak, so it is a slight issue on some pictures. Other than that, it works great.
When we first got this scanner, we saw it only had a single slot slide holder. We thought this would slow things down big time. My old one had a four position slide holder. We were wrong. The one that comes with this scanner is fast to load because you just slide the slide into it instead of fumbling to get the top open and position 4 slides then close. It is a simple push slide in holder, insert holder, push scan button and remove, then slip the slide out. The ability to slip them in and out sped up the process so much. We were able to scan 150 easily in about 2 hours....I could never do that with the old style. I especially like the fact that it uses a SD card. My husband scans while I do color restoration on the computer. When I run out of slides in the computer, it is easy to just pop the card in the computer download and we are both back to work. We still have a couple thousand to go, but my whole collection is going to be digitized! One word of note though, every time you power up the scanner, you must re-select the film type as it automatically defaults to negative. I am doing slides.
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