Review on Magnasonic Resolution Converts Scanning FS53 by Charles Jenkins

My children were born when photography transitioned from analog to digital. I have prints of most of my daughter's photographs and digital files of most of my son's photographs. At that time I had a "good" digital camera, Olympus, 0.3 MHz. I was an early adopter, way too soon. Luckily I kept the negatives from all these (analog) shots. Since many of the images are missing or in the wrong format, I tried different scanning/conversion methods. A few years ago I had a large flatbed scanner. I actually still do it, but it's so big that it takes some time to set it up (make room for it). My daughter, an award-winning amateur photographer, offered to take photos only. This works well when I have photos, but not when I have negatives. I decided to give it a try as I realized it would take more than one method to convert and/or print all those photos. Magnasonic is easy to use. Very little is involved in setting it up. Plug it in, add an SD card (full size, up to 128g) and take out the film adapter you are using. I've spent some time looking for a 35mm adapter but there isn't one. 35mm is the standard size. To scan, simply turn on the device, insert the negative or slide into the adapter and press the scan button. The JPEG file will be saved to internal memory or SD card if you have inserted one. I was surprised how quickly the 64g card, 9 photos, was used up! @2 megapixels is a big file! It's nice to see these photos again, but the scan isn't as good as the original and not as good as I got with a flatbed scanner (despite its age and lower resolution) or even anything else. Photos I copied by photographing. While the Magnasonic is relatively easy to use, the build quality is pretty rough. I was a bit worried about loading the negatives as some of the plastic parts have rough edges (adapter and the part that the negatives go through). It's very similar to Kodak, but since I don't have it I can't compare the quality. It comes with an AC plug, a USB cable and a power outlet. When I saw USB, I mistakenly assumed it was rechargeable. No, that is not so. It just gives you another power option. There is also an extra cable for viewing photos on a TV. Images stored in the internal memory can be downloaded to a computer using the supplied USB cable. I think this is a good enough solution for the average person, but if you have a lot of negatives it will take a long time to move and scan them. individually. However, this is a fairly inexpensive way to convert negatives. While my flat bed performed slightly better, it also cost significantly more.