Pyle PSCNPHO32 Film Scanner & Slide Digitizer

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by polimark1019 Sep, 2017Most favourable review

Better than I expected for the price

I bought this for digitalizer game @ 37 years of slides. Once I figured out the settings (about 10 slides), it has been working like a charm. like a charm. I haven't used the 22mb (extrapolation) setting, but have gotten good results with the digiftal 14mb setting.

It won't save directly to my computer (running Windows 10, but takes a standard SD card (mine is 32gb, but the instructions don't include maximum size)

Although the digitizer has rudimentary RGB controls, I use Photoshop to do most of my corrections. Many of my slides scan fairly dark, and I wouldn't be happy with them without some corrections. I don't know how well these will print, but that isn't my intent.

PROS: Once I familiarized myself with the controls, it only takes a few seconds to digitalize a slide.

CONS: (and this can be a big one, if you expect to scan numerous slides before checking them) The glass platen gets dirty quickly. I've attached a scan from a 15 year old slide, and you can see what happens if you don't clean the platen often. The dirty scan came on about the 15th scan without cleaning. The clean scan followed the use of the (included) "clean brush".

Some people have commented that it will crop portrait shots. Well, yes; but all you have to do is turn the slide sideways to scan, then rotate it once it's been sav d to your computer.

OVERALL, I am very happy with this inexpensive slide digitalizer.Read full review

Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: pre-owned • Sold by: deal-buys

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by XgOdN9POSMm@Del...03 Jan, 2018Most critical review

Pyle Film / Slide Scanner

Garbage for the money. Plus it cost me more since I had to convert from USD. Save your money or spend $500. Otherwise you are just wasting your money. This is so cheap my PC wouldn't even recognize it's memory card so I had to use my SLR. Resolution is just awful.Read full review

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by dendenno109 Nov, 2020

I'm still new at it, but I like it, well worth the money.

I answered yes to the set up, resolution, and color questions, but one absolutely has to
have a photo editing program where they can adjust various aspects of scanned items.

As others mentioned, the instructions are about useless, there are You Tube tutorials
that help, once you get what button to push and when down, it's a decent enough scanner,
easy, and fast! Read full review

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by 02hotrod1622 Nov, 2017

Great Scanner

This is a great product to copy your old slides to digital format. The directions leave a little bit out on how to use the scanner, but once I figured how to use it, it works fine. I copied around 500 slides in just a few hours. This is a quality unit.Read full review

Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: deal-buys

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by blaster319201 Aug, 2018

Great scanner.

I bought this for a client that needed some slides to jpeg. Didn't read the instructions. Put a ad card in and within 1 minute was scanning. Very easy to use and for the price fantastic quality pics. ThanksRead full review

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by 8UuJ6rXYQ7W@Del...10 Apr, 2018

Small and easy so far.

I have just started to use it. so far I used the slide option and it worked pretty good. When I tried to open the film holders it took several tries before I could get them open. Other than that everything works pretty good.Read full review