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As a professional photographer and lab manager, I can highly recommend this little desktop scanner. So many pros, very few if any cons for me. I have access at work to a pretty decent pro flatbed scanner that can do transparent media but work is, well work. I never make time to do my own scans. And it takes more time to set up to do a single scan than this little device did. First, the footprint is wonderful for my already cluttered desk. The little slider tray accessories I keep in a little pencil cup nearby but it's all so compact compared to a flatbed. Next, the ease of the onscreen controls are easy to use. Granted, I know my way around these devices but still, I didnt really feel like it was very difficult. Finally, the quality is great. People have tendency to remember film rather romantically and it really wasnt all that high of resolution. Still, scanning home slides and negatives at a print resolution of 300 ppi is definitely possible. I've got thousands of family slides and it not only serves as a viewer but of course, once you view you can scan. Cons are remarkably few. Yes, it needs a memory card but I have plenty lying around and yet, still bought one to be dedicated and stay in this little unit all the time. So, another con is not that big of a deal but simply that to transfer to your computer, you'll have to open the card on your computer as a "device" if you have it connected like I do, all the time, and just drag the files and copy them over to a folder on your hard drive. Again, no big deal that it doesnt scan directly to the computer so that's a minor con to me. Based on the design of the device to accommodate different sizes of transparent media, the film trays are a little wiggly inside the device but not a deal breaker again. One very cool aspect of that flexibility is the ability to insert and scan very old 35 mm movie film. I have a few reels and was finally able to see an entire reel of Paramount Movie News I found of a visit by FDR to rural Georgia. I couldn't ever scan this on a flatbed easily. With this I just rigged up a "holder" for the reel and a take up for the other side and moved the film through the unit to scan a frame from each shot. I'll post sample scans later. As the title says, I love this little scanner and glad I bought it.