Fast, good scans, but does poorly on dark photos and leaves small scratches.
This is a fast way to scan a lot of photos at an acceptable quality if the photos are well lit. There is no way to get a good scan of dark photos which always have light streaks in them, or if they are scanned in the protective case they are much darker than the original. The pictures I added are a kind of "throw away" dark image I used for testing. One is the automatic enhancing done by the machine where you can really see the light streaks. One is the original by the machine without a protective case, the darkest one is with the protective case. None of them are an acceptable match for the original image. This scanner is unusable for dark photos, which usually aren't great photos anyway. This affects less than 5% of my collection, but I'm still left looking for another option for those photos. The other issue with this scanner is that it always leaves small scratches in the protective layer of the photo. They are only noticeable in the reflection of light off of them, but if you are really protective of your pictures, do not run them through this machine. That said, I've been able to scan a large collection of photos in a reasonable amount of time and complete a project that I would have otherwise never found time for. If you want to digitize a large collection, and don't mind small scratches, and having to scan dark photos in another way, this will make the job easier.
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