Brother M121 - USB2.0

Digitize 35mm negatives and slides into high-quality JPEGs up to 1800 DPI without a computer. Features 2.4" LCD, adjustable feeder, USB 2.0 for standalone operation. Review: Great lockdown project - I looked into the digitising my slides via a company, but the cost was too great; advertise 30p per slide but that is only if you have thousands. I have culled mine to about 200 and was quoted £200. I bought from desertcart DIGITNOW FILM SCANNER, You will also need an SD card. It transfers negative and slides and lets you adjust resolution, (although I did not do that as I didn't understand it) and exposure, which I used a lot. There is an feed so you can stack your slides and easily scan them, a viewing screen so you can adjust exposure etc. The feeder does not work with plastic mounted slides but there is a 4 slide mount that you can put them in before you scan which is not too laborious. I didn't use that negative feeder. After you scan the slides onto the SD card you then connect to your computer and upload them. For speed, my computer is slow, I located the SD card on my computer then dragged the contents onto my desktop. The instructions are in Chinglish so it takes some patience to sort it out, also realising that slides are 'positives' (duh) but once I got it I was away. Top tip, it comes with a brush to clean the optic. when you do that make sure that the brush head is facing down, mine was facing up and I had a very panicky moment when it got stuck. It was such a great project and I really enjoyed it. Review: Easy to use and good value for money - Just like most people buying a product like this, I have hundreds of old 35mm sides put away in boxes and never looked at. I thought I'd buy this and finally store at least some of the slides. I unpacked and read the quick instructions and was up and running in a few minutes. I tried the flat 4-window carrier and it worked just fine but was rather slow so I tried the stack filler. This worked fine with the thicker plastic slides but kept jamming with cardboard or very thin slides. However, I found that, even just putting the slides in one by one into this carrier, it was quicker than using the flat 4-window carrier. You have to push the slide in carefully to prevent misalignment, but all in all the system worked fine. It's difficult to comment on the sharpness or colour accuracy without projecting the slides and comparing with the scanned image but they looked fine and I was happy to have digitised versions of those old images. You can see each silde on the front projected face and you have the chance to adjust brightness/exposure before pressing capture. I just left it in mid position. The other choice is resolution 5 or 10M. I changed to 10M each time I turned the machine on. It plugs into a USB port to power up . You have to have a SD card pushed into the card slot for the machine to work even if plugged into a computer's USB port, which also powers the device. On my Windows computer, the machine appears as a folder and you can copy the photos and paste as you wish. Sometimes you have to pull the plug out and push back in again and do the same with the SD card on occasion. The machine also stores the images on the SD card and you can view them and delete if you wish from the computer or in stand-alone mode. Overall, the scanner does it's job. Not sure whether purists will find the images of the highest quality, but the machine is not expensive and is far better than the last one I had. I'm very pleased to have it and finally be able to show old pictures to my highly amused children!