Wolverine F2D Saturn Digital Film & Slide Scanner - Converts 120 Medium Format, 127 Film, Microfiche, 35mm Negatives & Slides to Digital - 4.3" LCD, 16GB SD Card, Z-Cloth & HDMI Cable Included (Blue)

My perspective comes from using an old slide scanner called "Prime Film," given to me by a friend who had scanned all his slides. I scanned a few hundred of my own, but three years ago I just couldn't stand it any more and quit. Way too slow, way too boring. But I still have many many more slides, and my slide projector just decided to malfunction. I know I have to digitize, so I looked at the market and decided on this Wolverine model. Though only 48 hours into using it, I am delighted. It's fast: looks like about two seconds to scan and save a slide.The 4" screen is very helpful (or I can use the TV screen). Unless I have to adjust a slide, I can really move fast because they just feed through. If I do have to make an adjustment, it's easy to do so. It's easy to connect to my computer and download the images. With a 16MB SD card, I could leave over 120,000 images on the machine itself, and use it as a projector through my TV. Each slide gets an automatic count, which later is a huge help when categorizing and storing images. I appreciate an actual printed instruction booklet. Directions are clear and make the Wolverine easy to use. I'm not picky about photo quality. I'm the same guy who took the slides in the first place years ago, and I am the main limitation. The scanner seems to reproduce the slide at about the same quality it started with. Some might be improved. I'm actually looking forward to digitizing the rest of my slides. Note: I am only 48 hours and 120 slides into using it. Who knows what can go wrong? But right now, I couldn't be more pleased.

If you don’t really care about image quality but want a quick, easy, stand alone way to put some old negatives onto your iPhone this is adequate. Scans are poor quality and low resolution unless you use 120 negatives.

Didn't get 5 stars because it would be nice to control backlight intensity, mostly for blown out slides. But you can kinda work around it by tweaking the slide position. That said, this thing is a breeze. I'm well into over 800 slides, and it is a quick and easy assembly line. Built-in storage card saves these 4 to 6 megabyte images quickly, easy to then plug card or a USB cable into your desktop or laptop to transfer & further process. Kodachrome slides are shown at their time-defying best for such low cost, compared to having a production house convert them for you. Pretty darn satisfied.

Most of the photos came out clear, and though not as good quality as developed photos, they're sufficient. Some of them came out very blurry and I'll have to try to do those over again. There should be an adapter for 110 film, and maybe someday there will be a converter that accommodates DISC film. I'd grade it at a B+. Good overall, but some issues.

I guess I've been spoiled scanning my 35mm frames with a Minolta Dimage 5400 Scanner which not only scans the film but also applies auto focus to the final scan. This unit, which I purposely bought to use scanning medium format images does not do that. I suppose one would be ridiculed for comparing this unit to one costing four times as much but I feel it only fair that any potential purchaser knows about this. It scans the negatives but the resulting image is far from "high quality" and in my opinion should be reserved for negatives not requiring an ultimate digital copy. For saving family photos of no real artistic importance the digital images it creates serve the intended purpose, but printing those images may have limits due to the low quality file and degraded sharpness. Again, if you just want to save your happy snaps of family and friends the unit is a relatively useful piece of equipment.

Product description is not even close to what you'd expect. I received it, tried it and returned it the next day. It's a POS.

Simple to use, works on B&W & Color negatives as well as color positive slides. easy to upload to Mac or PC.I purchased the one with extras and everything was useful. Can even do 120 film; but I shot mostly 35mm. You might want to purchase an air duster (my old slides film had managed to pick up a lot of dust.

For something capturing 20MP images from negatives, I would have expected higher than 72 DPI. The images are grainy and not worthy of trying to print. I got a better quality image by taping the negative to my monitor with a white background and using my cell phone camera. I didn't want to have to deal with the hassle of using my high-end photo scanner, but it seems this one is lacking.I will say that the film holders are easy to load as advertised. It is extremely portable and usable in a pinch.I captured 20, medium-format (120 - 60mm x 60mm) negatives and on all of them there were the same blobs in the same location, so it wasn't related to the negatives. Cleaned the backlight and the blobs remained. There is no way to access or clean the imaging sensor. I even tried a light bit of compressed air and no luck. It is open inside with no way to prevent dust and debris from filling the body cavity between the lens and opt of the negative.Get this if you want to do a scan of images to put on a website where image quality isn't important or to generate a quick album to let people pick one to have professionally scanned or printed.