Features:

  • Scans your pictures, slides and negatives to the included SD card --no computer needed!
  • High-resolution scanning keeps your photos looking great for pristing archival
  • Works with 35mm negatives, 35mm slides, and 3x5, 4x6, and 5x7-inch pictures
  • High-resolution 5.1 MP scanner with up to 2500 DPI
  • Color screen for viewing your pictures
  • Includes easy image transfer and editing software
  • Standalone operation, no computer necessary
This was the perfect way to scan my parents' slides that spanned over ...

This was the perfect way to scan my parents' slides that spanned over several decades! Much easier and cheaper than taking it to a company to do!

Perfect, easy to use, Highly recommend.

No complaints at all. Easy to use, and have already used it to digitize hundreds of old, old photos. While some complained about needing more frame sizes, I overcame that easily, when I had pictures smaller than the frame by inserting blank photo paper just so it is at the top of the photo to reach to the top of frame, and that holds the picture without falling down and inside the unit. I did have one picture drop inside the unit, and had no problem getting it out. I just inserted a small piece of wood to hold the flap open where the frame is inserted.than turned unit upside down and the picture inside came to the slot, where I used some tweezers to pull it out, with no damage. As far as resolutions, I have no complaint, and being able to adjust darkness or lighten, plus red, green and blue hues is quite handy. I save them on a SD card in unit and will transfer to computer to categorize, that permanently store them on a 128 gb flash drive. I am happy and highly recommend this ION Pics 2 SD Slide and Film Scanner.

Super great...

I was very pleased with this item....if your slides are good quality the transfers will be in good quality...very fast and easy...didn't really need to read the instructions...don't know why others had a hard time...just put a few in and work with the buttons a little and you will catch on quick...I did at least 700 slides that were over 20 years old....didn't take long at all, even let 8 year old granddaughter help...after the holidays I plan on doing my many boxes of negatives, did a test on some black and white negs they turned out great...Love this machine, plan on sharing long lost family pics during Thanksgiving !!!

... of this scanner so far and have found it easy to work with and seems to do a good ...

I have used only the photo part of this scanner so far and have found it easy to work with and seems to do a good job. The fact it is a portable unit has been a plus and hope that when I start scanning slides it will do as well.

I've been using this same scanner that a friend let me borrow

I wish I knew how well it worked before I paid the $25 postage for him to send it to me. It scans a slide instantly, no lag in time, scans directly to an SD card. It fits my over-sized glass mount slides that sometimes jammed up my slide projector. The quality of the scanned images are great, color is accurate, sharpness is perfect. I have not used it for photos yet, but will be using it for that purpose too; I expect good results. I'm very happy with this product, so I ordered one for myself and am sending my friend's on to another friend for him to use... maybe he'll reimburse me for postage too? :-) I held off buying a slide scanner for years, waiting for the technology to improve, because I have thousands of images to scan and the scanners used to be very slow .... I would say this is IT, and I'm glad I waited for it. I had an application on my iPad watching for a price drop to below $180, and when notified it had done so, I was pleased to get it as low as $149!

Does exactly what it is advertised to do

I have scanned over 600 negatives and over 100 slides so far, absolutely easy to use. It scans when the "scan" button is pushed - instantly. It is like taking a picture. Then you save it to the SD Card by pushing a second button. Then (assuming you have plugged in the USB cord to your computer, after doing a batch of the pictures)push the mode button and transfer the files from the SD card to your computer for clean up/editing and saving. An excellent, cost effective way to transfer old negatives, slides or snapshots to digital files. However, do not expect a high resolution, clean image. I have used "Picassa" to clean up the files as best as possible, and it usually does a pretty good job. In the end it yields a good screen jpg, not good enough for printing. Perfect solution. The other option, to have a company do this, gets expensive really fast. It makes the cost of this machine look cheap. Obviously, you have to supply the labor rather than them.

Awesome Purchase - Family treasures are accessible!

We have thosands of slides from years past (1950-1979) and we never take them out or look at them because the slide projector is a pain in the Bu##. We got this unit in and I was able to scan about 150 slides in an hour! I didn't even read the instructions. It was very user friendly. They are all digital now and I expect to get faster at it - so the other 2000+ slides might take me a few weeks in my spare time... but at last our whole family can start to enjoy these treasures from the past. It also does a lot of auto contrast which makes even the darkest or lightest slides visible. I would have paid a lot more for something that works this well. It is really great. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Check your negative sizes before you buy.

Works great. My only disappointment is that I didn't realize I have 110 film negatives and there is no film holder for that size with this product. They don't manufacture one. So check your sizes and there is a negative to sd scanner that has all three sizes from a different manufacturer for just a very little more cost. I'm just going to have to make a template.

great

my husband had some family slides and wanted to change them to cd's to give to family, it worked great, well made and the family loved the picture

This is pretty easy to use and easy to hook up to ...

This is pretty easy to use and easy to hook up to my PC. It hooks up to my PC via USB cord and gets its power that way (you can also use the AC adaptor it comes with). When you want to transfer the pictures to the PC you set it to transfer mode and just like a USB memory stick you can open it in Windows and copy and paste the files. You can also delete them from the PC as well which is much easier than deleting them through the software on the unit. I am using it to scan old family slides to digital. I'm sure there are better quality and more efficient products but for the price this has been really great. I can get about 100 slides scanned (1 reel) and watch an hour long show at the same time. I could probably scan twice as fast if I weren't watching TV but that would be more like a job and less relaxing.

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