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Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024
Never have i ever written an amazon review before in my life. However, I felt it was necessary to share my experience with this product. IT. IS. TRASH. FIrst off, when I received this item, the light DIDNT WORK. It would switch on/off but the light wouldn’t illuminate. I (regretfully) took hours out of my day to disassemble and rewire the inside of this gadget, convincing myself I knew what I was doing. Days later, I finally got it to illuminate but was very disappointed once I actually was able to place the film on top, the photo would not show. And it basically ruined my roll of film from pictures in which i will never be able to see ever. Don’t buy this product it’s trash. i know it’s affordable, but not worth it.
Ready
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2024
The idea seems good, but major problems. My unit came with a broken switch. Prying off the back I found that the switch assembly had come apart. I wound up hard wiring it and taking the batteries out to turn it off.My Pixel 7 phone will not focus close enough to use the stand. I found an older phone that focuses. Really trying to make this work so I can process my one batch of slides and be done.Unfortunately, the android app provided does not allow me to edit or save images, and there is no help site, so I cannot use the device as intended.I gave it two stars as I can use my camera with a macro adapter and this setup is much easier than I could build myself.
John Parrish
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2024
I am pleasantly impressed with the results of copying slides with this item. At first I thought it was a simple plastic toy, but it really worked beautifully. The software was very easy to use.
Riley Meisner
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2024
Takes time to go thru all the slides, but much easier than setting up the projector!
Lapage Jo
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2023
I didn't think it worked too well for my slides when we bought this a year ago, but now that I have Mag. Light app, that acts like a magnifying glass, it takes better pictures than with my phone's photo app! The app lets me zoom in with more accurate digital quality! This was a game changer and I finally like this item! The app improved the quality of my digital image, so like I said... It works great, if you have a good camera and good app. I like the back lighting and I like the stand for the phone so it keeps it still and in focus. Edit: My phone is iPhone SE and I didn't use the app that the product suggests.
DCans
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023
It appears that there is a mixture of problems for my use.The minimal focal point of the camera is greater than the stand is tall, which means you have to remove the stand and hold the camera. Defeats the reason that I bought this, which was so I could have a steady platform and not hand hold phone.Also I think that because the hole on the stand isn't large enough to allow all the lens to view the negative the app had problems getting a good image to shoot.I think the set up is good for single lens phones, but I am returning it, as it didn't work for me.
Miss Bobbi 808
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2021
I like this device. It was a very good value for the price. I was able to digitize a lot of old negatives and slides, so I can pick and choose which to have developed professionally. It was a little tricky with the slides, as some of them were a little tight in the holder, and there was a potential for bending of the film.I used it with an iphone 7, with acceptable results. I have recently upgraded to a Samsung S21+, and I'll be re-digitizing with the new phone. I will update the review with the results from the new phone camera, which I anticipate will be an improvement. I recommend this device.
bevhoward
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020
The inexpensive smartphone slide scanner (actually a digitizer) just arrived. My very old PrimeFilmThat scanner produces much better copies, but, it's drivers no longer work with my windows 8 & 10 computers. However, in my opinion, for $30 this is a pretty good solution. My android phone (a Moto G6) had a couple of issues that I had to address first.The distance from the phone's lens to the slide is too close to focus the Moto , but I was able to address that by putting a half inch spacer to move the phone slightly further away from the slide.It was necessary to use the the Moto's manual camera controls to get acceptable copies. The Moto's manual controls include manual focus and exposure and the camera also provides manual "zooming" to frame the slide image. (note that "zooming" a digital image reduces the image resolution)I assume that the device is designed for iPhone, but it is a shame that the designer didn't put a little more time working with android phones.The big issue is lens distance and it would have been dead simple to include half inch posts to extend the support rods.The hole for the lens doesn't fit the Moto.The slide holder doesn't fit metal slides.The illumination background is rectangular, so, it won't work with square slides.Also, I DID NOT use the app that the scanner provides... For the testing, I simply took the images which were uploaded to google photos, went into google photos and cropped them to fit.Any good image software such as IrfanView will allow using the scanner to take a large number of images, then use batch processing such as rotation to fix multiple images at once. You can also scan 35mm negatives and mass convert them to positive using IrfanView.
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