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All-In-One 14MP Film & Photo Scanner

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All-In-One 14MP Film & Photo Scanner

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Product Review (submitted on January 2, 2020):

I have a lot of family photos and unfortunately they are stored in my basement which frequently floods. There's a lot of potential for damage to happen to them so I have undertaken the task of digitizing a lot of photos in the hopes of keeping those memories safe in case the photos are ruined. I've done a lot of them in the flatbed scanner on my all-in-one printer/scanner but it takes a long time and it can't really do negatives. So this seemed like a great solution.It is easy to use and the data stores right on the SD card in .jpeg format. It takes a digital picture of whatever is within it's viewfinder. The viewscreen is small but does give you an idea of what's going to end up in the picture. It takes the image of your picture in about 3 seconds so it's very quick. However, it's DPI is no where near as good as my scanner and it seems to me that when I try to adjust the sizes it always cuts off part of the picture unless I use 4X6 and then crop from the computer later. That's fine I usually do minor adjustments and editing anyways but if someone doesn't know how or want to do that it may prove frustrating to them.The bottom tray does have an indented area to lay smaller pictures in as well as the large indent for 4X6 photos. I find it a bit tiresome to continually lit and replace photos and then put the top back into place. I wish it actually had some sort of slide out tray or something that didn't involve lifting the whole top off each time. However I also like the ability to do so because it means you can actually scan images from a photo album without actually removing the photo, for example. I do notice that it tends to pick up reflections of the lights inside the box on the edge of the photos.The ability to scan negatives is really great and one of the best features of this device. It is very easy to use and scan the negatives and it comes with different trays to accommodate different types of negatives. The trays are easy to use and insert but can slide a little easily so you need to be careful not to bump them. Of course, the quality of the photos in terms of DPI isn't fantastic just like the photo scans. It's not terrible but it's not as high of a DPI as I'd actually prefer.I think it ends up being a bit of a trade off for me. A little lower in quality for the sake of speed and convenience. It's much faster to scan through my photos using this and I can do it anywhere I want even while watching TV in the living room because it's portable (unlike my printer/scanner). I scanned through about 9 birthday parties in about 2 hours when it took me about 2-4 times as long to do so with my flatbed scanner which requires a lot of cropping and saving to pull out each individual picture when scanned in batches or a long time to scan a single picture at a time. However, the scans from the flatbed are so much better quality than what this scanner produces. Overall, I think the quality is fine for preserving most memories though so in most cases I probably will be fine with just using this scanner and using the flatbed only for images I want to have in higher detail. This saves me a lot of time which is more valuable and important than higher DPI. However you probably could look for a similar scanner with a higher DPI if that's an issue for you. This one supposedly scans at 14MP and when I compare it to the same picture scanned from my flatbed scanner at 1200DPI it looks a little lower quality than my flatbed scan but not bad for general viewing and printing. I can reprint a picture approximately the same as what I scanned if printed at the same size. My flatbed scan at 1200DPI can actually print about the same quality even if I enlarge it a little from a 3.5X5 to a 4X6.For the price, it's reasonably priced in the same range as other similar products with similar features and if you have a ton of old family photos to digitize it the cost could be well worth the price for the time it can save or in comparison to buying a scanner or all-in-one printer if you don't already own one. If you have negatives to scan this is a much better option as a traditional scanner cannot do negatives as they need to be backlit and scanners don't traditionally do that.

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