OneConcept Combo Slide Film Photo Scanner - SD XD, Idependent Computer-Scanning Solution, Image Processing in the Same Unit, 5.1 MP, 6cm Display Screen, Clear Menu and Easy Functionality, Black

Initial disappointment with the packaging with a number of punctures to the outer carton and the product box inside is flimsy and suffered damage too. I have only experimented with 35mm transparencies (not negatives or prints). It is early days and I think practice will produce better results but in essence it does the essential job (for slides) but do not expect the same quality of image as the original slide. The preview screen on the front is small and poor clarity. The USB connection to my computer works or SD card option is also available. I have used a separate slide viewer to initially judge and select slides chucking out unwanted ones ahead of the machine's use for the best. I recommend this method. Finally, the users manual requires patience and time to master! It could be much simplified in my opinion.

I used it to digitise photos and old slides , very easy to use and the quality of the pictures are reasonable. Some of the photos need to be trimmed to fit the unit . Slides did fit the feeding tray with no problem. Good product to get your photos and slides on to your computer, it’s recorded on a SD card .

This really does work incredibly well and revives lost slides and negatives.

I have just scanned photos and it has been very satisfactory.

Just received this as a Christmas present as I have a massive amount of old photos to scan from the last four decades and I wanted something faster than a flat-bed scanner. It's lightweight and plastic, which is not necessarily a problem, but it doesn't feel robust enough to withstand an accidental drop on the floor. (Note, I haven't tested this theory and will try not to.) It took a lot of fiddling with initially and several readings of the instruction book, which is a bad translation (from German). It took a while to work out which buttons to press and when. It's not instinctive. My first attempt at photo scanning resulted in blurry off-centre pics, so I thought I had done something wrong, but it turned out that I hadn't. The focus had stuck on 'slide' mode instead of photo mode. (PHoto enclosed.) Clicking the switch from one to the other a few times reminded the focus to change. The other huge problem is that the plastic photo holder is calibrated for exactly 3.5 x 5 inch photos or 6 x 4 inch photos or 7 x 5 inch photos. Unfortunately, my commercially-printed, 1980s photos that are nominally 3.5. x 5 inches are actually 5.1 inches wide, which means they are slightly too big for the photo holder, so I haven't been able to scan them. Also my 6 x 4 inch photos are very slightly smaller than 6 inches across and so that are very loose in the holder resulting in the photos frequently falling out of the holder and getting lost in the machine's innards. I spent quite a lot of time (with the power off, of course) fishing down the photo slot with a paper knife to try to retrieve lost photos. Finally I turned the machine on its back, so that gravity held the pic in place. Not so many lost photos after that. It's easy enough to press the right buttons even upside down, as long as you don't want to make corrections to the colour balance etc. while scanning. The image you are about to scan pops up on a small screen, but it's a little distorted (squashed sideways so everyone looks tall and thin.) This is a bit disconcerting, but it turns out that the scan ratio is fine - no distortion. The only reason this machine got three stars instead of two from me is that once you've taken all of the above into account (and successfully fiddled about with it, and turned it on its back) the actual scanning is fast. Just as fast as taking a photo, which is exactly what this does. It's not, in actual fact, a scanner, but a fixed distance photographic copier. You can't set d.p.i. - all you can do is tell it 5 or 10 megapixels.