Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought the Wolverine F2D14 to scan 35mm slides that are 30-50 years old and be able to preserve the old memories. I like the compactness of the product, the speed of operation and the fact that this is really a camera taking a picture of the slide and has no moving parts (other than the manually operated slide carrier). And I liked the 14 MP size of the resultant image - this would allow cropping some of those old photos and still have adequate resolution. However, I have used this unit to convert about 75 slides and I'm sufficiently disappointed in the quality and consistency of the images that the Wolverine F2D14 has been returned. I like the fact that there is exposure compensation by setting the EV numbers over a +/- 2 EV range for brighter or darker images, but this really doesn't work well for darker images. If your slides are well lit with a good tonal range, this unit will work adequately. But if they are a little dark and have contrast, this unit will not provide a proper copy. The light intensity is not sufficient to illuminate a darker slide sufficiently so that the internal camera can capture the image adequately. And the light intensity is not completely uniform - the center is brighter than the outer edges - this mostly shows up on darker images but also on well-lighted images when compared to the projected picture. Sometimes, the internal camera is fooled by its automatic settings and the color fidelity is compromised. The fidelity of the digitized image is disappointing when it is compared with the projected slide image in a darkened room. I can fix some of these things in Photoshop, but some of these issues are beyond fixing. My old slides are too important to digitize them with mediocre results just to say that I've done it. I still don't know what I will use to convert these slides to digital. It will probably be a much larger and slower flatbed scanner that can accommodate slides.