MagnasonicAll-in-One High Resolution 24MP Film Scanner with 2.4" Screen, 35mm Slide Film Holders, Converts 35mm/126KPK/110/Super 8 Films Slides Negatives into Digital Photos, 128MB Built-in Memory

Very easy to use, but did not store as many slides or images as it claimed. However, it quickly and easily downloads them to a computer. As stated in the product description, it does not do any color balance or brightness correction, but if you have a good slide or negative image it captures it well. I was scanning a lot old (30 to 40 years) items that had yellowed or changed color over the years and there was not much I could do with them. However, I can now get rid of a lot of old color negatives and slides and have the images digitally captured and more accessible in terms of sorting and archiving them. I recommend this for basic capture of home images but not for true archival purposes.

My main purpose was to copy old slides, and most were mounted on cardboard. I purchased the slide carriers to protect the fragile slides, and the three carriers allowed me to sort and scan in batches of twelve. When scanning film, the curve on old film required some coaxing to thread beyond the first image, but that is forgivable. The carriers were sturdy and easy to insert. This scanner replaced an older device, and I appreciate the variety of film that can be accommodated by this little machine.

I used this to get digital prints from some 135 negative (color & B&W) and to get some digital prints from some Kodak slides (positives). Overall, for the price, it does work OK. But, here's some things I found inconvenient or frustrating.1. After processing a bunch of negatives I went back to look at the pics on the laptop and found that there was a bunch of dust and junk on the screen from the get-go out of the box. They provide a brush to clean this, but I never thought it would have to be used on the device new out of the package - wrong! Anything laying on the screen creates white lines, blotches or blobs on the digital pic. I had to use windex and a no-lint rag to get it clean enough to create pics with minimal crap in them.2. Learning the sequence of button pushes, navigating the menu and the fact that you have to make 2 button pushes every time you want to take/make a digital "print" is not very streamlined, logical or intuitive. But, once you learn it, it becomes functional and it works.3. You cannot have this device plugged into your laptop/computer and navigate the folder full of pics on the device AND make new pics at the same time. Once you navigate the menu to make a digital pic (see #2 above) it disconnects the device from the USB to the computer. So, to go back to see the pic you gut made, you have to navigate the menu all over again! It's clumsy and mildly frustrating.4. It crops the pics pretty significantly. It's a mechanical function of the device and you can't change it or fix it. If all you want to capture is the "thing" right in the middle of the "shot" then it works fine. But, if there are things you want to see on the entire shot, you have to move the negative or slide around to see it all. The only thing I found to do is to slide the negative or slide left/right and snap 2 pics and then use photo editing software to "patch" the two pics back together. The problem with that is the back lighting of the screen is different and varies across the screen. So, when you try to patch the two photos together, there is a distinct line in the photo where there is a brightness/contrast difference between the 2 original pics. It's a compromise.5. The built in memory will hold about 20 of the highest mega-pixel pics, then you have to move them out of the device memory and onto the laptop/computer (more menu navigating and button pushing - see #2 above). I found it best to put a 4Gb SD card into the slot in the back and that worked well. I didn't count them, but that held all of the pics I made (about 300 or so).6. The digital pics seem to come out a bit grainy and the color/brightness is off sometimes. I don't have a lot of experience with digitizing old photos or negatives, etc. But, it seems to me that in the cases were I have digitized a pic with this device and was also able to make a color scan from an existing photo - the scanned photo comes out with better color qualities and seems less grainy. But, that might really be a function of the high MP digitizing (22 MP with this device) and the lower resolution of the scanned photo. I'm not sure.The plastic frames and such that are supplied with the device to pass your negatives and slides thru the machine are fairly simple to figure out and use - I didn't even read the directions and figured it out. Once you play with it a while and make a few prints, you figure out how to push one group of negatives thru using the next strip of negatives and you can make it a continuous, repetitive process (lots of button pushes). I did over 300 negatives and slides in about 6 hours. But much of that time is spent unwrapping and re-wrapping the strips of negatives, etc.Overall, its an OK device and it does a decent job for the fairly low investment of $80. It would have been many times that amount to get prints made from these negatives (paper or digital) at a camera shop (Costco won't do this anymore - I checked!). So, if you just want to get decent digital prints from Mom & Dad's old box of negatives and you don't mind spending $80 and you have time to putz with it - it will do the job (minus the issues I've noted). I'm not overly disappointed or impress. It works. Hope this is helpful for someone else.

So far I've scanned about 500 slides with it. Overall it just barely did what I needed it to do. Nothing great, certainly not a pro scanner. Value is borderline vs. cost as I consider this unit just barely being able to do the job I needed it to. Assume you will need to post process your scans. If you are just looking to digitize home negatives or slides then this will probably do ok.Quality is ok, borderline what I would expect for the $$$. Looking back I would have probably paid another $40 and got a higher end brand.Amazon prime delivered in 1 day. Packaging is good.Pros:+ Simple Controls which as easy to figure out+ Supports a lot of film formats, comes with many adapters and a cleaning wand+ Small and Compact Unit, lightweight+ USB PoweredCons:- Need 2 button different presses to scan a slide. This was annoying if you are trying to scan a lot of slides. Would have been better to have just one button which would scan over and over again.- Memory Card Picky. I tried 3 different SD cards of varying sizes, it worked with only 1. I was able to "format" all of the cards with the units built in format utility but it would write to only 1 of the 3. I was about to send the unit back and luckily tried one more SD card I had laying around and discovered it worked.- No option for setting the scanned photo's date, had to edit metadata in post processing.- No scan direct to computer feature you must manually transfer via SD card to post process.- I found myself tweaking the "EV" setting on nearly every shot.- Randomly just shuts down. Maybe 1 or 2 times over 10 minutes. Not a show stopper but I don't expect this to last long term.- JPG only file save. No option for TIFF/DNG. Would be nice to be able to capture more dynamic range.- The display on my unit would sometimes get into a strange mode where it looked like there was noise or bounding lines on the LCD. Didn't seem to impact scans but was annoying. Seemed to appear most often when I was looking at a flat scene.- Includes ancient Composite Video out....Would have been nice to have a HDMI or something a bit more modern than a 1980s analog video port.

No where as good as a flat bed scanner, but this little gem works amazingly well to get those old slides onto the computer. No need for cables or software, just a SD Card and away you go.

I was gifted (that is the word I will use as a synonym for "the recipient of unwanted family treasures") several thousand photo slides by my father-in-law before he left the country forever and moved to Panama. I have to say, I was pretty mad. What on earth was I going to do with all these slides? I don't have a projector, and I don't have anyone who would be interested in looking at these images! How can I Mary Kondo my way out of THIS!?Despite my protests of "We will never even look at these!", my partner did not want to get rid of the slides, so we wondered for a long time what to do about them. We eventually came to the conclusion that while it would be time-consuming, it would be much more cost-effective to scan/digitize the slides ourselves rather than ship them out to a third-party company (which I am told you can do). I began this long and arduous quest -- of Middle Earth proportions, one might say -- on the 17th of October, 2020. I anticipate it will take me many months to complete, but Frodo didn't get the One Ring to Mount Doom without a bit of work on his part, did he?After scanning upwards of 1100 slides (so far), I cannot recommend this item enough. It may take you a while to do, but scanning old photos/slides/negatives yourself is weirdly rewarding, and it will give you a glance into the past of your forebearers -- one which may have otherwise been forgotten.PROS+ This is very affordable for what it is; at just over a hundred bucks, this will far outweigh the cost of sending your slides off to a third-party professional to scan for you+ Relatively quick. I have gotten quite swift at doing this and can scan about 100 slides an hour. Although I have a long way to go, the task is no longer as daunting as I thought it would be, as I do an hour or so here and there as my schedule allows.+ Takes an SD card. I inserted an 8GB SD card into the scanner and the photos are being saved to that, rather than to the device itself, which only stores a few dozen images before it is full. Having the photos on a separate memory device is so much more convenient than having boxes upon boxes of slides taking up space in my apartment.+ You can adjust the exposure and the colour of the image on this scanner before you save the photo. This is really helpful as you can fiddle with a photo and scan it multiple times with different exposures, giving you different copies of the same image. I have scanned some images three or four times at different exposures and colour formats to make sure that I am doing the original photo justice. It does not take a lot of time, and it is much easier than having to re-scan a single slide later when you realize you scanned it at an over-exposed setting+ There are lots of tools with this scanner! You can scan photo slides, film, etc. It is fantastic!+ Comes with a little cleaning rod so you can get dust and other specks off the screen. I recommend doing this periodically; I scanned about 30 photos in a row without realizing that there was a black speck stuck on the screen and ended up having to rescan them (ugh).+Plugs into its own power source or directly to your computer. It is helpful to have it plugged in to the computer, as you can switch between scanning photos and viewing them on a larger screen within a few seconds, and this helps determine whether a particular image is up-to-standard or whether you need to rescan it+ The scanner and its parts came in minimal packaging, which is always a bonusCONS- Sometimes, the scanner forgets it has an SD card in it or just turns off after a while (I mean, it is having to do a lot of work, poor little thing). I usually just turn it off and on again and that sorts it out.

I am effortlessly whizzing through 5 decades of old slides. This little device makes it a breeze. I have only two complaints. First the device does not remember your settings when it shuts off and it will shut itself off after a period of non-use. You must remember to set your capture format and reset the resolution to interpolated every time you power up. Too bad it does not remember the settings. Also, the manual does not talk about how to grab shots from film although the plastic trays are provided. It would have been helpful to have some instruction. I did figure it out eventually. (The small film guides are closed inside of the second holder, the one labeled for negatives, they will then hold the film still and guide it through the machine. You do need to rig some kind of holder for your film reels but otherwise the grabs from film worked well. I did end up using the settings for 110 slides and then cropping and rotating as the built in Super8 mode cut off a bit of the picture. Not a problem. I guess from a design perspective I also have one more quibble. The device has the display screen facing straight forwards. Unless you are scanning with the device on a shelf you cannot see it. I ended up rigging a holder that tilted the device backwards at a 45 degree angle so the screen was visible. Strange choice to not have made it point upwards where the human is located. Perhaps designed with squirrel operators in mind - tongue in cheek. All in all, I am thrilled with the simplicity and the results. Since none of the flaws are insurmountable I did not reduce my review for them but manufacturer should look to fix these things for their next model.

I love this device for enabling the capture and recovery of so many forgotten memories! I stayed up late several nights capturing over 950 images on 35 mm and 110 mm negatives that were developed 15 to 25 years ago. Being able to slide the film through made the capture process relatively quick. Keeping the backlight clean was the most tedious part, but I found a method of opening the dust doors on the Magnasonic and blowing out most of the particles then just using the included brush occasionally to clean the glass covering the backlight while visually inspecting the glass directly and viewing on the LCD screen. This method proved efficient and the resulting images were fantastic! I used Picasa photo editor from Google to fix up the photos before saving them and sharing them. Using the "I'm feeling lucky" auto correction in Picasa corrected most of the image colour and contrast issues. I found putting the Magnasonic on a box on my desk put the tiny preview screen at a better viewing angle. The Magnasonic may not be the most accurate method of capturing the images but the image details and colours were surprisingly good and acceptable for me. Using the flip and mirror options were handy but got confusing if I forget to revert the settings. I found it easier just to preview the negatives with some backlight before inserting them into the scanner. I used the default 14MP settings for 35mm and only used the 22MP resolution for 110 film because the negative image is so small. Great purchase and lots of nostalgia viewing the old photos that seem more authentic than modern photography with all it's enhancements and narcissism.

Great little scanner. Highly recommended. The negative holder keeps even totally curled negatives flat (those old school negatives that were curled around a cardboard holder). It will also hold a single negative cut out of a negative strip (which was my bad). Once the strip of negatives is loaded, very simple to pull them through one frame at a time and capture at your desired settings (you have lots of choice). The capture only takes a matter of seconds. Slides are even easier to work with. The output quality is great.It comes with a wall plug in, but you can also power it as a USB device from your computer. The advantage of powering from your computer is that you can transfer images from the scanner to your computer over the USB cable (which is included). No need to remove the SD card from the scanner. Makes for an efficient work flow. So why the wall adapter? You can also connect it to a TV with a cable-- which is included. None of the cable are proprietary, so they are easy to replace.The unit has a dedicated slide holder, a separate negative holder, and 8mm film holder. Comes with a brush for cleaning the interior--which is very important to do frequently. Lots more features you will discover for yourself. Great pre-sales support. They answered all my questions v(three emails) in less than 3 days. All in all, a good buy.Recommended work flow: connect the scanner to your computer via USB, connect the scanner to a small TV or monitor. Scan and transfer scanned photos directly to your computer.

Bought this for scanning old family negatives - have a good Epson that I use for photos but there is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to negatives and I wanted something a little simpler to use. Have used it several times now and am happy with the result, you just need to be aware of its limitations. The scanner won't do any sort of colour correction or clean-up of the negative so the results may be a little faded or off colour (negatives can "fade" like old pictures) but was able to use a basic Windows photo program with colour correction to restore those. Also, you will lose some of the image around the edges - not a lot but there will be some. That is the main reason for 4 stars overall as it would have been nice if they scanned a little larger even if it meant seeing the holders since it that is something you can crop out yourself. But otherwise it works quite well. My understanding is that this isn't a true scan, more that it is taking a digital picture of the negative but the results are actually really good. The images are pretty clear and I was able to zoom in quite a bit before it started to pixelate. And it is quick to use, only takes a few seconds to take the image and since you are pulling the negative through the scanner you can literally do a strip of film in 30 seconds. Have used it for both 35mm and 110 color film and it worked fine on both. If you are looking for high end archival scanning of negatives, this isn't for you but if you are looking for something to do a decent job of scanning old family negatives then this is something to consider.