Innovative Technology 35mm Negative and Slide Converter to PC

excellent product, easy to use... My parents are using it and they are not computer saavy... for the value and price is the best choice you could ever find.

I worked with customer service but could not get the software to run on Windows 7.0. Do not recommend.

I have many negatives that I want to keep for my kids in a digital format. I have a really nice scanner cannon canoscan 8800f that came with slide contraptions, and I have to say, this works just as well, and is less cumbersome, and takes less time to process.

None of these programs are a snap, but for what it's worth, this one works well.

I had an other slide/negative scanner, but, wasn't able to connect after I had a crash with computer. This one works great, so far.

In the end, I was satisfied with the Image Quality of the product.
It is a little tedious to deal with lots of 35mm slides, having to fit them in the tray, scan each invidually, then repeat for next set of negatives, but the scanner works. I don't know how much time a typical "scan" takes, but this device appears to do a couple of scans on the negative (or possibly auto corrects the original scan with better color). In either case, the picture on the screen will often appear to update once or twice until a final version is displayed.

Pros
1. USB allows for interfacing with device directly from your PC, and saving directly to PC (No SD or thumb drive transfer required)
2. Image Quality I thought was fine
3. Device is set up to autoscan, as the user manually pushes the negative tray through the scanner. There will however be times when it scans prematurely before you get the tray all the way to the next stopping point - for those times, the user will have to reset the tray without saving the scan, then let it scan again (The autoscan feature I think is worth it in the end)

Cons. There are some operational issues to deal with, but I was able to overcome all of them;
1. Setting 35mm negatives in the tray is tedious, though this may be a generic issue with the process that affects all connverters. Getting the 35mm negatives to fit in the trays correctly was a little difficult. The trays use a magnetic closure to lock the negatives in place, which is good, but I thought a better design could have been done for getting the negatives set correctly in the tray in the first place - I would often have to close the tray top over the negatives "hoping" they would stay in the right place
2. Software Interface has some bugs. It would hang up on my from time to time, requiring a shut down and restart. Always came back up, and didn't happen too often (But it did happen)
3. There is a limit on the # of images to scan before your being required to save to your PC (about 10 or so)