ClearClick Virtuoso 2.0 (Second Generation) 22MP Film & Slide Scanner with Extra Large 5" LCD Screen - Convert 35mm, 110, 126 Slides and Negatives to Digital Photos

I bought this expecting to be disappointed but it worked great for me, yeas it could have been a little more glitzy perhaps and the buttons you press feel a little cheap. But it brings up the photographic slides my grandfather and father took when I was still a twinkle, I can take a picture with it and then send back to my parents to see again in full glory. Now some of the slides emulsion has suffered but you do what you can. I also tried some old 35mm negatives I had in a box and they worked perfectly. It does take a little bit of getting used to and it doesn't like the memory card being removed and put back in to continue so leave it alone and connect to your computer via a usb lead.I even came across some old film slides that were square, think 126 or 120 cannot remember, but this unit actually can be set for this size. I was very impressed, way more that I expected. I'm keeping ti because when I go back to my parents I will take all the old negatives they have back with me to scans those as well.Worth the money and it did what it said on the box.

Very effective in digitizing old photos

Very pleased with product. Arrived early and put it to use straight away. Easy to use and finished product was very pleasing.

This replaced a negative scanner I had for years but gave up in frustration as it was extremely difficult to use with a small screen. The scanner has a large screen to see what you're scanning, the selection process is easy and intuitive and the scanning itself is very fast. I scanned about 6 rolls of film from a trip to Turkey taken in 1993 and it allowed me to find the negative I wanted quickly. A must have to go with the scanner is a sd card as it makes the process of transferring to a computer easy - it labels each photo scanned with IMG01, 02 etc., which, if you save to a sd card and do all the scanning for a particular roll of film or rolls of film, allows you to send it as a group and you can rename the files all at once. I would then recommend (after saving to the computer) deleting the photos on the card for the next project.The scanner comes with an instruction manual, but it's easy enough to use without it.

Compared to a flatbed photo scanner it's probably a much better choice. I scanned 30+ films in one evening. Scanning whole film can take 10-15 minutes (compared to 5+ minutes per frame on traditional flatbed scanners, multiply that by 36 for a whole film).Quality is pretty good, even though there is room for improvement (I wish it could do HDR, for instance).Very easy to use. In most cases handles colors and brightness automatically, and you can correct them easily if there is a need.Quality of the scans obviously depends on quality of the originals, but you can improve your photos after scanning using one of those AI-based tools.Now the bad parts:- initially I couldn't make it save scans. It turned out I needed to wait a little (a few seconds?) after turning it on, otherwise it refused to save photos to the SD card.- sometimes (very rarely) it suddenly shows the photo in weird colors. Usually partially taking out the film tray and then putting it back helps.- once or twice it started visibly glitching, so I had to turn it off and back on- I couldn't scan some of my slides because their frames were too thick for the adapter. Possibly because they are non-standard slide frames made in USSR.I still recommend this product, it's a nice solution for digitizing old films and slides. Easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and capable of making great looking photos.