Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have a couple thousand slides, my own as well as inherited from my parents and in-laws. These date back to the early 1950's. I'm very anxious to archive and label them before they(and my memory)fade. I purchased the Imagelab FS9T scanner last week. Setup was fast and easy, just unpack it an plug it in, you're ready to go, one button to scan slides, another to scan negatives, and that's the only good thing I can say about this scanner. The down side to that simplicity means no adjustments are possible. Exposure is bad, on an unevenly lighted (think flash bulb) photo the light portions tend to wash out to the extent no amount of work with Photoshop can bring them back, especially faces (aren't they supposed to be the best part of the picture?). Details tend to be a little fuzzy, nothing close to the resolution available under a hand held viewer or a slide projector. Scanned slides originally taken with a professional quality camera come out looking like something taken with a cheap throw-away. Speaking of throw-away, that's just what I plan to do with this scanner.