Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I liked the design and the large screen. It also scanned quickly. That is the only reason I give it a 2 and not a 1. When scanning slides, some of the pictures were fine. Others would be splotchy in dark areas and totally burned out in light areas. You can adjust the brightness; but have to do that for each slide on a menu with many clicks. It would be very time consuming. My old 5MP scanner did auto-adjust that worked very well so you don't have to manually set the brightness or color balance. Also, when inserting slides, you can just push through the ones you've scanned. That makes it fast, but cardboard slides are tight in the holder. I kept being just short of having them fold on me as I had to push really hard on them to get them to insert. Speaking of color balance, when I scanned negatives, they all had a yellow-green tint that was weird. Again, I don't want to have to adjust the color balance and brightness for each slide. When I adjusted the negative scan in Photoshop, it looked good until I zoomed in. Dark areas were very splotchy. This makes the higher resolution useless. For snapshots it would be fine, but anything cropped out or zoomed in looks bad. Finally, the main reason I returned it is that the 35mm negative scans cut off a significant amount of the image. You have to decide if you are going to cut off the right, left, or a bit of both. Really? This is supposed to be primarily a 35mm scanner. I'd rather have it scan more than the full negative and crop it than lose some of the picture. Back when I shot film, I was very careful to compose my images. Having to lose some of an image in scanning is not acceptable. In the pics I uploaded, you can see the negative I scanned with my old 5MP scanner is good. The one scanned with the Wolverine has the people in the background too dark to see. When I adjusted the brightness to see them, the foreground was totally washed out. The color was also not as good. My 5MP scanner cost around 80 dollars and I bought it years ago. I figured with that many years and newer, faster, technology, spending nearly $150 for a modern scanner would result in better picture scans. It disappointed.