Review on Magnasonic All-In-One Film and Slide Scanner by Chris Moody

I like this little scanner for the price but it just can't handle darker images. I'm trying to digitize some old family slides from the 60's and this did a really good job until I came across some dark ones. They are displayed on the device's LCD screen, but the JPG image is just a purple-orange jumble of pixels. There are some settings you can change on the scanner itself and by playing around with these settings I was able to successfully scan some of the darker slides but it's time consuming and it only fixed about a third of the bad images. I thank them for the adjustments to the software. I also like that you can flip images using the scanner buttons. Before sending this unit back I ordered a very similar looking unit from a major brand (K) that cost twice as much, also 22mp. He had no settings in his software. He was able to successfully scan darker slides and all scans had lighter colors, not much but enough to notice and it was consistent. In terms of detecting detail in scanned images, both scanners performed about the same and may have been limited by the quality of the 50 year old slides I scanned. Many of our old family slides were taken in hunting lodges in the woods etc, so being able to scan in the dark is important to my project. So I returned this scanner and kept the other one. The only media I tested was 135 slides.