Pacific Image ImageBox for Windows and Mac

Please note I used a Mac, so your experiences may differ if you're on a PC.There's a lot of slide to digital products out there that range from $50 to $250, and the ImageBox is a nice middle ground. It is a good product for any amateur seeking to look back at their old slides, and the image quality is good with a few flaws.- The ImageBox itself (the scanner) is light, a bit bulky, and soundless. It doesn't make any loud scanning sounds, only requires one USB slot. The slide holder is nice and holds up to 4 slides, but sadly you must manually insert them and insert the slide holder each time so it can be time consuming and annoying if you're doing hundreds of slides.- The software is terrible, and the worst part is you have to use the software in order to use the ImageBox. Maybe it's because I am on a Mac, but the software sometimes would not even open. Sometimes it would crash and exit. Sometimes the preview window would just go black and I would have to restart the software. It was a really pain to just rotate an image, and the color correction features were unrealistic. I wish they would update the software because it was the biggest downside of this product.- The image quality is good, it's vibrant, crisp (if the photograph is), good contrast, and good resolution. As with any slides they have a few scratches, dust, and speckle on the slides that will scan it with the image. The color on some images is a bit washed out and has a classic "vintage" look. I wouldn't recommend the software for correcting these problems, it's too time consuming and inaccurate. You really need to have knowledge of Photoshop in order to correct a lot of the images and retouch them. Color correction goes a huge way on Photoshop and it makes a lot of the photographs I had from the 1950s look like they were taken yesterday.Overall it's a good product, but it's a product that really requires you to have some image editing software too, or know someone who can correct the images for you. It's great for the home user trying to scan in their parent's or grandparent's old slides, but time consuming if you are going through a hundred or more. Keep in mind the scan really can only be as good as the photograph and slide itself is, so you can not expect wonders. They won't be as high quality as photographs are nowadays.

The negative and slide "scan" (it really takes a digital photograph through the film) produces excellent results. I found that I could pull pictures from old negatives which regular labs could not print. However, after scanning a few films, I found deterioration in the image quality, with what appeared to be scratches on the negatives. But the negatives were not damaged; it's something inside the ImageBox.Do not buy this if you want to scan printed photos--the quality is really bad and not comparable to a flatbed scanner.If it wasn't damaged, I'd be really happy. But it is and it's seems not to be robust-enough for more than occasional use.

I have retained picture negatives for past 25 or so years and I bought this product to conver them into digital pictures. This is excellent product and does excellent job. It was very easy to install software and scan negatives. I was looking at old pictures coming into life from negatives and that takes me back into past.Great product for those who wants to turn old negatives (films) into digital picture.I have yet not scanned pictures but there are other alternatives to scan pictures.

I bought this unit mainly to duplicate some 1960's slides though I thought the negatives and picture duplication was a plus but when I used it the picture and negative dupliction were actually , on a scale of 1-10 , a (7) for negatives and a (8) for pictures but the slides were about a (4) ! The slides on bright pictures were blurry and the darker pictures had blocks of squares on shadow lines instead of nice smooth lines ! I ended up sending it back , having 100's of slides to do and didn't want to do again if I find a good quality one !

Does not work with Windows 10 so I had to use my laptop. It is a a bid cumbersome but we did get the negatives done.

The Image Box was the exact thing I was looking for to handle the old slides that I have been wanting to digitize. It was very easy to install the software and have it up and running quickly. All of my slides were at least 45-50 years old and I wasn't sure what the quality was going to be like. But every picture came out perfect (with the exception of a poorly taking photo in the first place). I have used it to convert slides and flim strips so far and had no problems. I would definitely recommened this product.

Products works very well. Easy setup and the conversions are very nice, I have done about 200 slides so far and had no problems. Only takes a few seconds to load images.

If you have nothing but time on your hands, buy it...otherwise it's a waste. In order to make copies it takes way too many steps and is not user friendly.