Magnasonic All-In-One 24MP Film Scanner with Large 5" Display & HDMI, Converts 35mm/126/110/Super 8 Film & 135/126/110 Slides into Digital Photos (FS71)

I have a large collection of slides of my parents and mine to process. I did a fair bit of research and there were several systems from this price upwards. It will depend on your specific needs e.g. enhanced clarity and extras. Currently I have found that this one does a very good job of copying the slides and I was able to process several boxes in a day. Aspects that are good are: easy to set up and initially all you need is a power source USB and a memory card. It has the facility to use memory card, USB transfer and HDMI for TV viewing. Overall I am happy with the system and the results obtained.

I sent my one of these back. That is partly because I guess I'm a bit fussy. Why did I send it back ? Well it doesn't quite scan all of a 35mm negative. There's a border it can't scan. You can't zoom out like the camera lens adapter versions of negative scanners. The picture quality. It's not bad, with a bit of Adobe "lightroom" or "darktable" on Linux colour and contrast processing you can make the scans look okay. But scans immediately out of the scanner the colour balance is a bit off. The inbuilt colour correction is a bit basic. Not worth using. So you really are going to have to reprocess the scans on a computer once you've done them . See I think what someone thinks of this scanner really depends on their expectations. For a lot of people , who probably don't have an expensive Nikon, Canon, Sony or Panasonic SLR , and just have a stash of old photos from an elderly relative that they want to digitize, they'll probably be more than happy. It is pretty quick and easy to use, the results are okay, once they've been colour corrected. It can be attached to a larger monitor via hdmi if needed. But I'm one of those fussy people, who does have a reasonable SLR, and I'm probably going to get an on lens attachment to scan negatives. This is probably going to cost me quite a bit more than this scanner. I wasn't hugely disappointed by this scanner, but I do want to scan all of the negative. Scanning takes a lot of time, no matter what way you chose to do it, I'd rather do it as well as I can, and do it once. I scanned a few packets of photos, but there was part of me thinking that I might just waste a lot of time scanning photos , and then want to rescan them all again, with a better scanner. I might regret sending this back, but currently I'm now looking for something a bit better. Maybe an SLR camera attachment or one of the Plustek 8300ai scanners. But they're a lot more money.

I bought this to look through some old slides that I found at my mum's house whilst clearing it out. I wanted an easy way to view a large bag of slides from the 1960s - 1980's. This is so easy to use. You put the slide in the adapter provided, and then manually push the slide through the viewer with the next slide. It's easy to change the colour and brightness if you need to. Then just 1 press will capture the image onto the SD Card for you. It's only a few seconds per scan, and they are good quality. The picture above is from 1972, I did not edit any colour balance. I think the Magnasonic has produced a brilliant image. It is cheaper than other viewers out there, but it is certainly not lacking in quality. Again, as others have said, if your source image is faded or poor, then you won't get a brilliant scan, but otherwise I have absolutely no issues with it.

The Magnasonic FS71 would have got more stars if the power cable supplied had been the correct fit. Had to borrow the right one from a relative but once I got it working it produced good results with old family negatives. Decent screen and responsive controls make it easy to use and compact form for storage. Shame it wouldn't work out of the box.

I had lost an photo album of my trip to Malta many years ago,but fortunately I had all the negatives. Looking at all the scanners, this seemed the best option. Reasonably priced and an assortment of options. It's easy to set up and within a few minutes I was scanning and saving. A few complained that the images were poor, but I found it's all to do with the negatives. If they are poor, your images will be poor. Washed out negatives will not be clear and will be yellowed out. Any scratches will show, any blemishes will show. So basically a good negative will give you a good image to which you can then edit if you need to with software on a pc.

Works as advertised, the colour and brightness adjustments are fairly crude and post processing on a computer gives better results. Seems to work better with negatives than slides and the digital results are ok for viewing on an iPad but blowing them up reveals the underlying pixelation. Thicker 35 mm slide mounts will not fit the slide carrier, fortunately I do not have many of these and I will have to either remount them in thinner mounts or fabricate a custom carrier. Negatives don’t feed easily through the film mounts especially 110 sized negatives which often stick and misfeed. The quality of slide images is highly dependant on the quality of the original slides, whereas negatives give more play. However for a low cost item it seems reasonable value for money. I won’t be disposing of the original slides and negatives as these would enable better quality prints if I need them, I suppose any copying process inevitably results in some loss of quality. I did not see and improvement in quality using the higher MP interpolation, just much bigger file sizes; in fact reducing the file sizes from 3 to 5 MB to 100 to 900 kB on my computer did not seem to degrade the images as viewed on my iPad much and reduced the storage requirements. Generally I am pleased with my purchase, I have not tried projecting the scanned images onto my smart tv to see if any pixelation is apparent there yet.

Delivered ahead of time. Works well with a good clear image from the negatives. It is straightforward to operate, with the SD card providing the storage prior to the transfer to the PC.

Does what I want it to do. Straightforward and easy to use tech.

Fácil de usar. Boas conexões. Ótimo passatempo para escolher as fotos antigas.

يعمل بكفاءة كل انًواع النجاتيف والإسلايد تقريبا

高解像度は期待しない事〰️✨ あくまでも大量のフィルムから必要なモノをチョイスし軽い気持ちで電子化する用と考える❗

Muy buena resolución y fácil de usar. Valió cada peso por recuperar esas fotos en diapositiva

Very good item, highly recommended.