SVP FS1700 Black Digital Film Scanner w/ 2.4" Build-in LCD ~"World's Smallest Film Scanner"~ Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been waiting years for an affordable way to scan my parents 2000+ slides. The slides have been sitting in a big box in my house for years. The projector bulb on the 1960s era slide projector is burned out so we haven't seen the slides in 10+ years. I doubted the quality of such an inexpensive scanner, but once I tried it, it gave good results. One caveat, I have some slides that are in aluminum frames (my dad used to develop his own slides) and they wouldn't work in the scanner, since the frame for scanning is designed for paper slides. But I was able to remove the slides and scan them in the film frame.
The scanning was really easy. Press a button to preview and another button to scan. It takes an SD memory card (or connects to a computer), so I stuck in an SD card, and scanned while I watched TV. Scanning each slide literally took less than 2 seconds.
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There were several trays of slides that didn't get saved to the SD card, it may have been that the memory card was not inserted properly. So I had to rescan those. I would scan 5 or 6 trays, then copy them to my computer. That way if a batch was bad, I only had to rescan those 5 or 6 trays. But I scanned 2000 slides and this only happened once, so I think it was just user error.
Since I was scanning thousands of slides, separated into trays of 30 slides (some had less than 30) I found a couple of blank slides and would write the tray number on it with a black Sharpie and scan that as a divider, so I could easily sort the scanned slides into folders.
Once you delete the old scans from the SD card, the new scans will start being named/numbered from the beginning again (Scan001, Scan002, etc.) so you have to be careful when copying them to your computer so you don't overwrite the old scans. So once I copied the slides to my computer, I would divide them into folders and rename them. (You can do this in batches easily in Windows, or on a Mac with an AppleScript: Replace Text in Item Names).

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