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Germany, Berlin
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Review on Pana-Vue Automatic Lighted 2x2 Slide Viewer for 35mm: Enhance Your Slide Viewing Experience! by Chris Crisler

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Slides, slides everywhere

After reading some reviews I bought a pan view adapter. I have several thousand slides that I review, sort and discard while waiting for a select few hundred slides to be digitized. My slides are stored in 10 filled Kodak carousels, 1980's metal trays and several cardboard mailboxes. I set up a kind of conveyor belt on a long table. First, I fan out as many slides as will fit on the lightbox. I can immediately determine which ones to throw away. for example, the 1973 Grand Canyon carousel box. Using a lightbox, I very quickly bounced back over 120 views of the canyon and beyond. lol. I kept about 20 photos of my late husband and I. Based on the preview, I selected the best of these photos for digitization. I can see facial expressions, closed eyes, etc. I don't want to use the viewer for thousands of slides! along with the preview, minimizing stuck slides. The box it came in looked old so I was immediately concerned that it was a used product that would need to be returned. No, it works fine. I'd say it's good value for what it does. Looking at all these sides is a difficult but important project for the family

Pros
  • One year trial
Cons
  • Available in white only