ClearClick QuickConvert 2.0 Photo, Slide, and Negative Scanner - Scan 4x6 Photos & 35mm, 110, 126 Film - No Computer Required - 22 MegaPixels

This ClearClick image scanner was purchased (initially) for the creation of the ultimate Christmas gift. Family members *truly* enjoy having their decades-old slides & photos available in electronic format. It is relatively labor intensive to work through any project of this type, but where there is a will, there is a way. No doubt, the ClearClick streamlined the entire process and produced amazing results. Where professional digitizing services charge (on average) ~$1/slide or photo, this unit will far exceed its price tag value when you have hundreds to thousands of photographic memories. If you can allocate the time doing the work, yourself, then just do it. Couple of notes: - if scanning slides, use canned-air to remove dust particles prior to each scan. It's well worth the effort, you don't want to have to redo anything. I went through 2 cans, cleaning ~900 slides. I eventually picked up an electric handheld, dust-blower/remover since canned-air can be pricey. At present, I still have a over a few thousand slides yet to scan. - If scanning boxes of slides, carousels of slides, or envelopes of photos: -- Just a suggestion: do one entire box/envelope/slide-carousel at a time. I moved them after each completed batch to a computer. -- I named them using the slide/photo film development date and slide/photo number (when available), using a naming scheme of '<year>_<month>__<slide#/photo#>.jpg, so '1971_08__15.jpg' as an example. Where there was more than one box with same developing dates, I suffixed the month with a letter, ex: '1971_08b__15.jpg' which was slide 15 from the second box. Moving the image files off from the scanner card (using USB mode on the ClearClick) and renaming the jpeg files right away eliminated any potential for confusion of what had already been scanned. - Scanning one slide/photo does take ~1-2 seconds, as indicated. - Scanning photos while they're still in the plastic of an album 'works' but the rows of scanner LEDs could sometimes be seen on the top and bottom of the finished scan. Removing them from the plastic, while it adds more time, is well-worth the effort. You only want to "have to" scan your photos one time, in my opinion. - The ClearClick on-screen menu took a little bit to get used to, but it's relatively intuitive. I only used the brightness and RGB color adjustments a small handful of times. Keep in mind that each of those color adjustment settings remains 'set' until the unit's power is cycled or if you go back in to reset them. - I haven't tried the HDMI 'preview via a TV' feature, but that is certainly a bonus. The screen on the unit worked for my needs. - The included 32GB SD card was more than enough. Image files were, on average, 3-4MB in size using the 22MP setting. The ~900 jpeg files were ~3GB, in total.

reviewed based on scanning various size prints from older (1920s to 1960s) photo albums, not slides or film. can't speak to the latter uses. this is great for scanning photos without having to tear apart the photo album, especially if you have photos one on top of the other in an accordion fashion, which is part of my problem. the ability to lay the device on top of the photo in situ by removing the base plate saved me an incredible amount of time. image quality has been quite good. once you get the hang of it, it's easy to use, and as said it was a massive time saver and saved me having to tear apart even the most fragile old album. support has been 5* or better. nitpicking issues: a) it seems to have some alignment issues with scalloped prints. they looked at sample images and gave some advice (and then they shipped me a replacement unit immediately, part of my 5* support rating). b) it only does certain default sizes -- 4x6, 3 1/2x5, 4x4, 4.2x3.2, or 3.4x2.1 -- and there is no way to adjust for other sizes. for them you have to trim the resulting image down to size or leave it with lots of border. check if your prints are among those sizes. the included software helps, but it would be nice if it wasn't necessary. very happy with this purchase.

So far it’s working well. It was easy to set up with clear instructions. The only thing is picking up the unit and setting it down before and after each scan is an inconvenience. That’s the reason for the 4 stars. I’ve only scanned 45 photos so I haven’t uploaded any from the SD card to my computer yet.

Great size which makes it easy to use. I bought it to scan old photos stuck in photo albums and it worked very well. The scanned photos looked good - color was accurate and the photos looked like the ones in the album. And it was very fast.

Found hundreds of slides for the 1970’s and decided to convert to digital. BlearClick quick Convert 2.0 scanner my choice due to price and information available. I had no issues setting up or converting all these old slides. It comes with a scan disc which made transfer of digital copies of slides easy to sort and get into my computer system. Very glad to have had this scanner for my family’s slides. By the way the many of the slides converted to very good quality pictures even being 50 years old. Highly recommend.

The scanner works as expected and is easy to use. • It's really helpful to be able to scan from above the photo without using the base. There have been times I've needed to scan a photo "in place" in a photo album. • The multiple options for the size of the photos (e.g. 3.5x5, 4x6) are adequate, although it would be nice to be able to scan 5x7 photos. When scanning 4x6 photos, there is a little bit cut off all around the photo, so I'm careful to position the photo prior to scanning. • I've used it for scanning both slides and photos and am pleased with the results. I'm using it to scan old photos that are of varying quality, so I'm not expecting extremely high quality results from the scanner. • For slides, it works with the standard 35mm slide that is 24mm x 36mm. Note that it can't scan 35mm slides that are 40mm x 40mm square film size. • Others have noted that the scanner doesn't work well with curled photos. I put a stiff clear plastic page over the curled photo, then scan from above, and that solves the problem. The weight of the scanner over the plastic page flattens the curling. A big plus is the PhotoPad Professional software included with the product. When I purchased the scanner, I didn't realize how valuable this addition would be. Since some of the photos I'm scanning are poor quality, the software can help improve the digital version of the photo. I don't have Adobe PhotoShop and am not a professional "retoucher," but I find the software useful for light editing, including color correction and adding text.

Para tomar las imágenes de un álbum es complicado y con se obtiene una resolución buena, no lo recomendaría

Exactly as described. Have just started using...I have old odd shaped negatives (from the mid 1950s) so they didn’t fit exactly, but I trimmed the edges and it works perfect! So excited to see the pictures.

crisp pictures

It was working just fine. I got 3 reels done. Then I plugged into my laptop and it wouldn’t work as the USB connection fell inside the unit..there was no way to open it..I contacted the company though and they are sending me another unit.