Jumbl High-Resolution 22MP All-In-1 Film & Slide Scanner w/ Color LCD - for 35mm Negative & Slides, 110, 126, & Super 8 Films - w/ Speed-Load Adapters

I have only had this for one day, but it is the best hundred buck investment I have made in a long time. I have scanned about 50 slides from my father's Navy days back in the mid-1950s. These slides are over 60 years old. Amazing, amazing, amazing!!! The little slide holder is perfect. You just slip it in the slot and then push your slides through one at a time. They push each other along and out the other side. When you see one you want to save, you just push the scan button and confirm. Done. Best of all, you can put an SD card in it (which I did) and just sit comfortably on the sofa and go through them without having to be connected to your computer. When you are done, you just take the card out, plug it into your computer, and import as if you had connected a camera. So easy. I never thought it would be so simple to save these old treasures. I can't speak for durability or performance with negatives or 8mm films, but for slides this thing is awesome! UPDATE : I added a sample. This was taken from a 35mm slide that was created in 1955/56. See for yourself!

I took a lot of slides as well as color negative film when I was younger, and now I have all those images needing conversion to digital if my children and (perhaps) grandchildren are to have any use of them. I have a flatbed Epson scanner that will do both, but rather slowly. It would do a better job than the Jumbl scanner, but not much better for the most common use, which will be to view the pictures on a monitor or make no more than 4X6 prints. For that purpose, this All-In-1 scanner is ideal. It's really simple to use. Once I got a rhythm going, I could copy a slide every 20-25 seconds. I have about 3,000 slides to copy, so seconds count. Color and exposure correction are basic on this unit, but you can get a scan in the ballpark of correct and then improve the results in computer software. The reviews of others bear out the slight weakness that detail is lost in shadows when exposure is correct overall. For the price, however, the quality is acceptable. It's not like I'm going to throw away my slides and negatives after I get finished copying them. I could always do a critical piece of film over with better equipment if I wanted to make a large or higher quality print. I'm glad I got the device. It's going to save me a lot of time. Update: with example and comparison After doing about 200 slides now, I have an update on my review, and it continues to be favorable. I also own an Epson Perfection 2580 Photo scanner, a flatbed unit that has a negative feeder and a transparency scanner. The Epson takes about five or six times as much time to scan and save a single slide as the Jumbl, so there's no contest as to which one gets marks for efficiency. However, how do they compare on quality? Look at the two slides at bottom. I've reduced their size for this review, of course, but otherwise there was no editing done to them. I even left the little bit of black border from the from the Epson scan. Note the brighter image and snappier contrast of the Jumbl scanner. This is closer to the original slide. The upped contrast makes the sharpness seem greater--note the leaves of the palm tree (the picture was taken in Jericho, Israel, by the way). There's less shadow detail in the trees against the building in the Jumbl scan than there is in the Epson scan. In flash photos, this often translates to moderately noisy shadow areas if the foreground of the original was properly exposed for the flash illumination. In this picture, it doesn't much matter. Outdoor scenics with fairly even illumination scan best on the Jumbl. Portraits do well, too, if they are not highly contrasty. The color is virtually the same in each of the examples. Both scanners were set to use default color and contrast settings. I'm still impressed overall with the Jumbl and insist that $100 was a good deal for what you get.

I've scanned about 4,000 slides with the Jumbl over the last month and am very pleased with it. These were mostly photos of family and vacations. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on digitizing them and didn't really need the best possible, cleanest images. I just wanted good images to share with the rest of the family, and to be able to look at without a slide projector. I had an AIO printer that could scan slides, but it was so slow - about two minutes per slide. With the Jumbl I can scan up to 10 slides a minute! Of course, if you are worried about cleaning the slides before scanning, you'll probably spend a lot more time per slide than this. I decided the images I was getting were good enough without cleaning, even though some images show a few small imperfections caused by dust and dirt on the slide. I did learn some tricks on using the device well. It works very easily for thinner slides, but the thickest cardboard slides tend to get stuck. I learned to deal with this and I'll explain how. First understand that you generally have at least 3 slides in the device at a time. One coming out the left side exit slot, one centered inside the device to be scanned, and one you have pushed into the right side feeding slot. And as you are starting to push in the next slide, there are actually 4 slides partially in the device for a time. For thin slides, just let the slide you are pushing in push a slide out the exit slot into a pile of completed slides. However, for thick slides that are hard to push thru, it helps to - pull the exiting slide the rest of the way out rather than pushing it out with the next slide. - if the slide you just scanned gets stuck inside after you've started pushing the next one in, pulling up on the exit slot plastic a tiny bit should get it unstuck or avoid getting it stuck in the first place - if the slide you are pushing in goes in crooked, generally causing the plastic tray to open up a little, pull the slide back out, and try again. Trying to force slides though crooked will not work. Although it's made of plastic, it is a very solid device and survived the abuse that I gave it trying to push thick slides through before I figured out these tricks. I am very happy with the resulting digital images.

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On ne fait pas du neuf avec du vieux, c'est impossible. J'ai scanné tous les négatifs que je possédais 110 et 135, la plupart dataient de plus de 30 ans. Loin d'être comparé à une photo numérique, ce qui est normal, j'ai été très satisfaite de mon achat. Il ne faut pas oublier qu'avec un simple scanner, les négatifs sont scannés sans aucune correction, car à ce prix-là il n'y a pas de logiciel de retouche incorporé et donc, les poussières, le griffes, les usures sont également scannées. Il suffit d'un logiciel de retouche photo pour donner aux photos scannées un aspect des plus raisonnables pour de très vieilles photos prises avec des appareils archaïques et le fait d'avoir des scans aussi grands (3072 x 4608 pixels pour un scan en 14M, et 5760 x 3840 pour un scan en 22M) permet une plus grande facilité de correction.

Scanner semplice ed intuitivo da usare. Rende buone immagini da negativo. Da diapositiva satura un po' troppo il colore ma nulla che non si possa risolvere in fase di editing. Spedizione rapida e puntuale come sempre.

Ich habe den Scanner bestellt, um die knapp 3.000 Dias der Familie einzuscannen. Fazit: Das Gerät ist ausreichend für normale Bilder, die man in normaler Größe (10x15) ausdrucken lassen möchte. Ich konnte damit auch etliche bereits sehr schlechte Bilder (die sind z.T. 60 Jahre alt) wieder verwendbar machen. Wirklich gut: Es geht schnell. Nicht so gut: Der kleine Bildschirm zeigt die Farben anders als sie dann letztlich auf dem PC sind. Die Qualität der Scans ist auch nicht mit hochwertigen Diascannern (z.B. Epson oder Canon) zu vergleichen. Aber es reicht für den schnellen Hausgebrauch. Sonst würden die 3.000 Dias noch heute im Schrank warten...

Fast and easy to use. Provides an option to "edit" images (adjust exposure, tint, etc) before you scan, but this doesn't make sense. The screen isn't large enough to determine what adjustments are required. In addition, I scanned many images in "mirror image" because I couldn't read the numbers, words, etc. on the small screen. However, none of this is really a problem since it's all very easily corrected with photo editing software and if you're scanning older film you'll want to try to enhance colour and exposure with photo editing anyway. I love that doesn't have to be connected to a computer and you can insert an SD card directly. I haven't compared the same negatives done with this to those done through a photo shop, so I'm not sure if the image quality is as good as a professional photo shop could provide -- I've been working with a lot of 1970 to 1975 negatives and slides and the quality has deteriorated (can't blame the Jumbl for that), but given the age of the negatives, I'm very pleased with the results. Unless you're dealing with one or two "heirloom" photos (e.g. your parents' wedding photo) the price differential makes this a very attractive alternative to a professional photo shop, especially for non-standard (other than 35mm) film size. While WalMart will do 35mm fairly cheaply, there is no local option here for the 110mm film I used for years as a child. Local prices in a photo shop to digitize a single frame on a 110mm negative strip are just under $3 -- at those prices, in the first evening I digitized over $800 of negatives with my Jumbl. I've used the Jumbl successfully with 35mm negatives, 110mm negatives, and 124/126 mm slides (in all sizes I had some B&W and some colour film). My only disappointment is that it can't scan the older, larger black and white negatives from the 1930s. To be fair, the product description doesn't say it will do the older negatives and I don't believe there is any similar product that will; however, I was so enthused with the results for the sizes it does do, I thought I might be able to fashion a frame myself to feed through the larger negatives. Unfortunately, they are slightly larger than the input slot, so no luck. Unless I've missed something in the instructions, my only question is what happens when the bulb burns out. I haven't seen any way to open the case to replace it. That said, this little machine works very quickly and I anticipate being done my and all my relatives' negatives and slides long before it burns out. If it does burn out, I like it well enough, I would definitely buy a replacement to finish.