Scan quality is good but I estimate I can do about 40-50 slides an hour if I'm lucky.

Slide holder is delicate and will eventually break. It would be nice to buy a couple extra film/slide guides for loading while a set is scanning and to prepare for breakage. But you cant buy them.

Also no on off switch?! Come on.

I would have gone with the 8800 or a better slide/film converter solution had I better investigated.

This was a recent purchase for a boyfriend whose family has tons of slides they wanted to convert. It has been a simple process for them.

This product is justifiably regarded as a best buy by Consumer Reports. As always, I found all of their observations and assessments to be correct. I bought this scanner to digitize a few thousand of my father's 35mm slides, many of them over 50 years old. The results exceeded my expectations. At four slides per scan, it took a few days, but I think I've already gotten my $90 worth. I opted for the free super saver shipping, was disappointed at the forecasted 14-day delivery date, but then pleasantly surprised when it came 5 working days later.

The quality of the scan is excellent. The process is more complex than the HP scanner it replaced but the quality of the scan is worth is. Great value. Highly recommended.

This product is a good first scanner for a hobbyist who wants to begin scanning images into various projects. I can only give it three stars,however, because the attachment that permits scanning slides and negatives, which is of considerable importance to me, is poorly designed. This was my second scanner. The first was a second generation model from another manufacturer and it performed the slide/negative scanning in a far superior manner. There is a great price difference between the two products so perhaps I should have heeded the advice of other reviewers and opted for the more expensive model. If slide/negative scanning is not important to you, then I can say that the machine functions well and will prove to be a good value.