Magnasonic All-In-One 24MP Film Scanner with Large 5" Display & HDMI, Converts 35mm/126/110/Super 8 Film & 135/126/110 Slides into Digital Photos, Built-in Memory (FS71)

This is an excellent product, easy to set up and use, with great results. I had previously tried scanning old slides with an Ion “slides forever” device, but the quality was terrible because of low resolution. This Magnasonic is more expensive but there’s no contest when it comes to quality. The resulting images are clear and bright. You have to feed slides manually but it’s quick and easy - each slide pushes the previous one out the other side. Exposure or colour can be adjusted when (rarely) needed, though not in detail. The device has a very small internal memory so it’s advisable to buy some standard SD cards for bulk processing. Important note: it will only work with lower capacity cards - 2GB recommended (which will hold a few hundred images). Files can be transferred to computer via card reader or direct from the device. No software needed.

Converted transparencies/slides over 60 years old into jpegs. Pretty easy to operate and able to adjust brightness and colour balance, viewing the slide on the screen. Once image is saved to USB - not included and required for the unit to function - the images can be transferred to a computer and further enhanced using an edit function. Also converted stills from a 16mm film from some 70 years ago. Not such good quality but more down to the original technology. Yet to try negatives. A very good piece of kit for the amateur and cheaper than sending them off to a company to do. Not very time consuming and actually fun to go through 30 years of family history.

Have a large quantity of od photos, negatives and slides. My flatbed scanner dir a great job with the photos but no use with negatives and slides. Bought this to do them, wasn't expecting too much but just wanted to get then digitised even at low quality. Totally surprised by how good the results are using this, and by how quick and easy it is to use.

Only one glitch wit this excellent machine; when feeding film negatives they get stuck and can't be pushed through. Great for slides though.

I was very impressed by this product, it was very easy to set up and gave a great quality of scan. I have only used it for slides and the slide feeder included made very easy work of a few hundred slides, probably taking less than 10 seconds per slide to load and scan. The only issue that I encountered was that some of the thicker slides were too tight to pass through and I needed to make an adapter to enable this. Being able to scan without a computer and then just transfer them through the SD card was easy and quick. Just don't expect 1960s slides to compare with a modern camera phone.

I was hoping that this scanner would produce images which were good enough for using in powerpoint presentations. Unfortunately, even on 25MP resolution, the images were very grainy whereas the original slides when projected onto a screen were sharp. The scanned images were also significantly darker than the originals.

Good results and certainly speeds up conversion compared to other options.

It did all my Dads slides but there were a couple of Super slides (same shape as a 35mm slide but the margin is about 5mm from the edge and as this scanner cant zoom out you wont get all the image.So you do need an sd card for this scanner but as it also has the USB cable for the PC to import onto the PC I came up a method to import one box at a time, rename the export folder to the box number. then it creates the export folder again the next time.As it has settings for all the standard slides it will do 95% of everything you need to scan if you collection is anything like my Dads where its mostly stock 35mm slides with some superslides \extrachrome ones he got from other people over the years.Scanning slides is bit of an artform, Most of these slides had been written on with who and what date the slide was about. The trick i found that made it quicker was to number the boxes and then take photos of the whole slides and then scan those slides and add them to a folder on my PC one box at a time - then I named the folder the number of the box and then later i would import all the photos i took and ad them as a subfolder to the numbered folder so i had a reference to refer back to later where i could match the slide number to the slide and then name the slide image correctly.So the scanned images would go in the folder namedBox 22 - 1967 - wedding anniversaryThen inside that folder i would import all the scanned slidesthen i would make anothe rsubfolder in that folder calledBox 22 - RawIn there i would put all my photos of the slidesthen I could go back to them later and name the slides correctlyI also noticed that some slide had the images back to front and writing was backwards or number plates on cars were backwards, it was then i realised that whoever had originally mounted the slides at the photo shop did not always put them the right way around.So taking the slides and then photos of the surround allowed me to get all the info i needed and then the slide can back in storage and i had all the info of both the slide and its surround to go back over later with more care and name correctly and reverse the image when required. That second stage has taken a few months here and there at my own leisure. Hope this helps anyone new to scanning slides.