SORRY--This scanner didn't do it for me
I purchased this scanner and while it is quick to get it up and running, the output is NOT what I would consider acceptable quality. I have several hundred 35mm slides which I need to scan and many are very nice quality. This scanner produced very dark and purple-blue images which are quite difficult and almost impossible to overcome in Adobe Photo Shop because they are so poor when they come out of the scanner. A good slide scanner should provide you with an acceptable image that is not overly bright, dark, contrasted, or injected with too much color saturation. That way you can make a little "tweak" to them with photo software to bring them up to a very nice image, somewhat compatible to the original slide.

The user guide that comes with it is very poorly written, almost like it was written by a person from another country that doesn't quite have command of the English Language. Some of the instructions are rather "squirrely" and you have to put the user guide down and just play with it to figure out what is going on. After playing with it for an hour or so, I realized that this is more of a plastic toy than a true 35mm quality scanner, so I returned it.

If you just have a bunch of old slides you want to slap into digital format and you don't care about the quality, then this might work for you. Otherwise, you might be better off to look at some of the flatbed scanners that also do slides. It takes more time to scan them, but what you get is going to be a lot nicer to look at, especially if they are of family members or memories that are important to you.

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Less than great!
The Wolverine is a neat concept and a fun toy, but don't plan to print any image larger than 4x6" or you'll be mightily disappointed. The resolution is, in a word, awful.

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Amazingly bad. Stunningly bad. Really awful
I'm not sure what the difference is between the Wolverine scanner I got and the one earlier reviewers who gave it a four or five star rating is, but please - PLEASE - don't buy this thing. The wolverine F2D scanner is junk, like something you'd get in a cereal box as a prize. The scans are completely unusable, even as low-res jpegs for the internet. Bad colors, burnout, blurry -I've never seen scans so bad. And when I called and wrote Wolverine's technical support department to try to figure out what the problem might be, the response was basically 'gee, that's too bad, but that's just the way it is.' Please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

Extremely Disappointed
Not what I was expecting, very cheaply made and not worth the money. Purchased this item and had it shipped to the in-laws house so that I could scan and convert my wife's old family photos to digital media. We arrived at the in-law's house for vacation. The package arrived in great shape and on time. We were all very excited about converting precious family photos to digital jpegs so that they could be shared, saved, and protected. I read the directions fully and then began to scan the photos. It was a very easy process and initially the quality seemed great, although....500 photos, and a lot of my time away from family, later I began to notice an irregularity in the scanned jpegs. I reviewed all of the photos and I began to see an artifact, the same image in all the photos. The artifact showed up especially on dark photos, or those printed on gloss paper and yes it can be seen on all of them, some less than others. It turns out that the image on the jpegs is a reflection of the aperture in the case of the scanner. I lifted the flap were the photos are inserted and saw that the aperture on the inside is the exact shape of the artifact on the jpegs. The problem is that the inside of the scanner "box" is all white and the light reflects off of the photo and onto the hole where the image is taken, back to the photo and then back to the imager; this then leads to the artifact on the photos. I am very disappointed with the images and the fact that I did not notice it until I had completed so many photos, which I will have to redo with another product. I would diffidently not waste my time or money on the product, especially if you are looking for quality.

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Who inspected this for (poor) quality?
Sadly, I had high hopes of receiving a product that lived up to it's description...but, as with the reviews of some of the other purchasers, I was extremely disappointed, and RETURNED IT!

The photo scans all had a white, ghostlike rectangular reflection of the interior of the scanner chamber....every picture had the white rectangle across 1/3 of the scanned image.

The second problem, even more appalling, was the image moniter wasn't installed correctly and hung crookedly inside the machine. Couldn't view the preview withoug tilting the machine on it's side.

Third problem....the Slide scanning feature DID NOT FUNCTION....period. Wouldn't even turn on. Like the wires were not connected inside.

WHO INSPECTED THIS JUNK? I found a different photo scanner at Bed Bath And Beyond (0n clearance) for $40 and it takes much better photo scans. I will send my slides for scanning through COSTCO....50 for $17.99 and 29 cents each for additional slides (minus a $5 off coupon !). So $53.99 will get me a much better result than this $130 piece of junk.

Stay away from this product.

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Horrible Quality
After undergoing a project to digitize all of my old 35MM negatives with an Epson transparency scanner, I thought I should look into a way to complete the project quicker since it takes about a minute per picture on average to scan. Reading the reviews and products available on Amazon, this Wolverine looked like it had decent quality and extremely fast results (5 seconds per). Well, to make a long story short, the results were less than impressive. I compared the scan from my Epson to this product and there was absolutely NO COMPARISON. The Epson scanner gave me realistic and rich colors, good depth and overall a very accurate digital representation of my 35MM negatives. The Wolverine, on the other hand, gave me a washed out, blue-tinted picture that looked nothing like the original. While it did a decent and acceptable job on any shots that were taken outside, it did horribly on anything that was taken inside. Overall, if speed is all you care about and you just want to catalog your pictures, then this is fine. But if you want something that you can actually share with others and make print outs with, I do not recommend this at all. Lastly, I tried this only with 35MM negatives so it may work better for pictures and slides....

Worst Photo purchase this year
I purchased scanner to move 35mm negatives and slides to digital. I had scanned several previously using a template on a flat bed scanner. The results were far superior to this dedicated product. Very difficult to center negative in holder above light source. Color adjustment is required each scan. The default settings in scanner or nothing like the original photograph. Finally, painfully slow on a 2.4ghz Windows 7 64 Bit with 9 mg dram. A "don't buy" product.

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Bad purchase
I purchased this scanner for a Christmas gift from ANTonline. When we finally tried to hook it up it wouldn't work. I've been in contact with the manufactuer for over a month trying to figure it out. The Manufactuerer is willing to return it, but they are in the UK...the place I purchased it from (ANTonline) wouldn't take it back 31 days after purchase. They have a 30 day return policy..."Sorry" Returning it to the UK will cost $40. I have to say Veho customer service has been great...it's the middle man that sucks. ANTonline! Don't purchase from them. If you have an issue they don't care. I just threw $70 in the garbage.

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Don't buy this one!
Contrary to the previous review our experience was completely negative. Impossible to decipher poorly written manual (different versions online and with product); took three highly competent geeks over an hour to decide it was unworkable. Not recommended - and we're keeping this clean.

Product description is false
Product description states "35MM film". A 35mm film picture is a rectangle.
The aperature of the unit is a square. About 1/5 of the 35mm image is
cropped.

35mm images created are Square - because part of image is missing Blurred, not sharp as in the original image Excess contrast

The unit cannot correct for a films curvature. Part of image may be in focus and part not. I would recommend it only to my enemies and the blind.

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Cuts slides on the sides
I bought this to scan some old slides but was terribly disappointed. It scans a square picture of a rectangular slide, excluding the sides. It matters when it cuts off heads and feet and important people in those old crowded pictures of the past. I called the company and they said they can't do anything about it. I believe this is a lack of forethought in design. It is a waste of time, effort and money. Pay more and get something that does the job right, instead of wasting time, money and effort. The package took three weeks to get to my address in Bakersfield, CA because of the incompetence of the new delivery company being used. I returned it for a refund, and would never purchase something like this unless I try it first.

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Faces are very overexposed
This slide scanner is fairly easy to use but it is impossible to adjust the light level and almost all closeups of faces are overexposed and washed out. The washing out of faces can't be fixed using Photoshop Elements. For quick pictures of landscapes it is OK, but the images of faces are much worse than one can get from the slide adapter on my HP scanjet 3570c scanner. However, each scan of a slide on the HP scanner takes approx. 10 minutes, so it is not practical for scanning thousands of old slides. I also tried to scan some negatives using the Imagelab. The resolution of the images from the negatives was very low, although the color of the images were good. Scanning the photos, which were professionally developed, with the HP Scanjet gives much higher quality images than using the Imagelab to convert the negatives. I would not recommend this scanner to a friend.

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Has a fatal flaw - fails to capture entire image
The device is simple and quick to use. There is no muss or fuss. Load you negatives (or slides, but I only worked with 35mm negatives - never got to slides) in the tray, set the sswitch, insert the tray, push one button, slide tray one stop for the next frame. Simple. I like an item that is specialized and simple like this. I have plenty of heavy-duty image processing software to fix the image if there are things I don't like, so I don't need (or want) it integrated into this.

While the colors of the scanned images did seem less sharp than in the original prints, I had no objection there, and, as I said, I have software to fix that. I even have batch processing software so that I can make the same color correction to a bunch of images. Picking out scratches and dust wouldbe more time-consuming, but this could be done too. I found the scan resolution to be fine.

Unlike someother reviewers, I didn't have trouble loading the trays once I got them open. It's possible that the company had changed the design. The way the trays latched was a bit tricky, and you might damage negatives if you were careless about opening a loaded tray. The odd latch seemed to pop open somewhat unexpectedly as you were trying to open it. The trays seemed quite secure when loaded and closed.

I only scanned negatives from one envelope, and transferred the SD card rather than using the usbUSB cable. I also did not attempt to use itin the battery-powered mode. I also didn't use slides. Therefore, I can't comment on any of these aspects.

However, I did find (as at least one other review noted in its body) that the scan missed a significant amount of the long direction of the negative image. Another reviewer estimated 10 - 15 percent, which seems right. If you do any photography where you've framed the edges of the image somehow while shooting, or if you have images where you used the whole field to capture your subject, you will not like the results at all. If you only have subjects in the middle of the frame and everything else is quite background filler, then you may not care. This flaw probably made me look at the images with less care for quality than I might have done otherwise.

Bottom line to me is that a slide/negative scanner must capture the entire image being scanned, anything else is abject failure.

Innovative Technology 35mm Negative and Slide Converter to PC
Do NOT waste your money! I bought it to view and save 35mm negatives to CD disks. The colors are not true and there are many small white dots on the images. Called their 800 number for tech support and e-mailed them, too. No response either way. I don't know if the converter is junk or the software.

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You get what you pay for!
I would not recommend anyone buying this 35mm Negative and Slide Converter. I could not get it to work on either of my two computers. The software would not load with Windows or Vista. When I tried to get help from Technical Service their web page and telephone was no longer in service. I could not find any address to return it. I gave up and bought a HP Scanjet G4050 which worked perfectly scanning over 1,000 35mm Slides. My experience was a learning one. You get what you pay for!

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I would not recommend anyone buying this 35mm Negative and Slide Converter. I could not get it to work on either of my two computers. The software would not load with Windows or Vista. When I tried to get help from Technical Service their web page and telephone was no longer in service. I could not find any address to return it. I gave up and bought a HP Scanjet G4050 which worked perfectly scanning over 1,000 35mm Slides. My experience was a learning one. You get what you pay for!

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Double trouble, product problem and no help from manufacturer
I could not get the software to operate. I sent several email messages trying to explain my peoblem to their support office. I did not get anuy response to my questions or explanations - I did not get any response or further response to resolve my dialogue. No word of any kind, like they don't exist, like I don't exist either

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Color reproduction of 35mm slides is poor
I received the device for Christmas because members of my family knew I wanted to convert my 35mm slides into digital.I had over 2K slides to convert. The device uses white LEDs and thses overdrive the color. There is no true color correction circuit, or LED brightness control. Blue skys are sometimes given an "extra sun" a bright smear effect, at times people's faces become washed out--extra bright in this case.There's more that's not good. The device does allow you to save your pictures in a folder--when it doesn't hang up on you that is. In that case you'll need to reboot the pc and redo the 12 pictures--again. It processes 12 at a time. After the 12th picture you must save the "strip of 12". Using software such as Elements or whatever to correct the picture color, etc... after they are processed by this device is a hit-or miss job depending upon how bad the device converted the picture. In most cases you are not close to the colors of the original slide. To give you an idea how bad this device does the processing take your slide before conversion and compare it to what was processed. You may not like the results unless you like color pictures that look like they aged 200 years. Good luck. (My OS is WinXP Pro SP3)

Waste of money...
I purchased this product and needed to get some assistance with saving the converted images from negatives. I emailed their "support" address at support@ithomeproducts.com three times in a week for help. After a week and not receiving an email back, I decided to call their help line to try and get the issue resolved. Once on the phone with a rep, he was very short and completely oblivious towards the situation and lack of response via email. He didn't apologize at all for the inconvenience but ask for the model number twice (apparently he wasn't listening the first time) and needed my full name, email address and additional information before he was able to answer my question. I ended the conversation more aggravated than before the call. I thought my question was fairly simply and the problem easily solved, but this company isn't concerned about customer satisfaction. As far as the actual product goes, it is a fairly inexpensive model and so you get what you pay for. If you need to convert negatives to .jpg format to reprint, the quality isn't that great. In all honesty, maybe the photos would print clearer if the pic was saved, but I wouldn't know. Good luck if you purchase this, hopefully you won't need company support. I returned the item and will not purchase from this company in the future.

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ITNS-500 Piece of Junk
I concur that Kohl's should not carry this product. I bought one on Black Friday to create saved pictures from my negatvies and photos for my three daughters of their childhood. I worked with in on my VISTA for about 2 hours, was able to install to a working program after three re-boots and two installs. I even got my negatives to scan, although a little pinkish. I never got to see them open as the "tool" kept sticking and in the end, would not save my images. I had to close it twice to unstick it and lost my work. I'm done... it's going back to Kohl's and I will do my homework on negative scanners before I buy again. It was a nice idea... but a complete waste of my precious day off. I hope no one bought this as a gift for someone for Christmas, it would be a huge disappointment!

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Disappointed
I bought this scanner at Kohl's because I wanted something that would scan photos and not just negatives/slides. I inserted the CD-ROM and installed the software for the device. When I tried to open the device to use it, I received an error message of "Camera Not Found! Contact Manufacturer." I followed all of the instructions several times: uninstalled program, disabled other imaging devices, even went to I.T.'s website and installed an updated driver SEVERAL TIMES. Each time, I received the same error message. Finally, after about an hour of struggling, I let Windows go out and attempt to find the driver for this piece of junk. It was successful. Now to scan photos...absolutely disappointing. The image qualitiy is poor, and the photos get stuck inside of the machine when you try to pull the tray out. I even used the business card glass, and it was worse! The glass AND card got stuck inside the machine, and the image was awful with scratches everywhere. The glass (which is more like plexiglass) became severely scratched. Save your money and buy something that actually works.

Really hard to use
The picture makes it look like it just feeds your slides thru but No. You have to push the tray to the next position and manually mess around with it. I guess it would be ok if you have the time but frankly the Epson scanner I was trying to replace is just as quick, so you lose the advantage of the "snapshot" jpeg.

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Never was able to use this, it doesn't work on my computer. I have been working with someone from Argraph, the manufacturer via email for a couple of weeks trying to make it work, in the end they said this scanner has problems on some HP systems. Definitely didn't work on mine. They pointed to the 64 bit AMD processor as the problem, even though it is supposed to work with 64-bit systems. Other issues include:

- Poor instructions
- Poor error flagging / response. No indication is given when there are issues and it won't function - it just sits there making you wonder if it is working or not.
- Technical Support was very difficult to access. No phone numbers or email addresses with the shipped product, I hooked up with them by sending an email to their sales email address, which was all I could find on their website.

Scanner is a waste of money
I purchased this product to digitize a number of color slides and film negatives to PNE or JPEG image formats. Even though the scanner's imaging CMOS lens resolution is listed as 48 bits, the scanned image quality was very poor (grainy, uneven, out of focus). The editing software included with the package was also rudimentary and not very intuitive. I would not recommend this product; unfortunately, it was a waste of money.

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Bad Product
This is a simple product however doesn't provide clear images. If you want blurry pictures this is the product for you. Merchants should be ashamed to sell this product and Amazon should stop listing it. Merchant return policies don't allow for returns. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT !!!

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This item is no good
This is the second item I received. I returned the first item because it did not work and now the second one has also not worked. I have had another person try it on a different computer and it did not work for her. I am going to have a computer expert try it and if it still does not work I will return it and want my money back

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TERRIBLE PICTURES
Do not bother with this!!!!
I purchased this in hopes of helping my dad with a large project of turning about 3000 slides into digital images. Although I can look at the slides and see they are completely clear pictures, this scanner was only able to clearly scan the center of the pictures. The edges looked awful. In some cases, blurring out people so much that if you had not seen the original slide, you would have no idea who was in the picture. Complete waste of money.

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Should have read the reviews first
This product is awful. I really should have read these reviews before purchasing it through an online auction. The picture quality is horrendous. I bought the unit to scan a bunch of negatives and even at the highest capture setting, the image is heavily pixelated. I tried everything to try and achieve even a halfway decent final image, but I wouldn't even use it for even a rough archive. The final image is stunningly bad. This product couldn't be used even if they gave it to you for free.

Will Be Returning It
I purchased this, thinking it would do what I needed it to, scan in negatives and photos. I was wrong.
Firstly they don't tell you (until you read the instruction booklet when you get the product home) the product has an auto cropping feature (photos and negatives), which selects what part of the negative that is scanned, so if you have a dark background, it takes all of the background out of the scan. There is no way to turn this feature off.
The product requires continual recalibration, probably about every 5 to 6 strips otherwise the product stretches your photos.
The automatic feed is nice and speedy, however it's negated by the fact you have to scan and rescan some negatives.
When I contacted Pandigital about these issues I was informed I should have purchased a scanner for 35mm negatives then another one for photos - essentially purchasing 2 products when this is advertised it will do both of them. The other option they gave me was to cut each negative into single sections, which is not an option.
There are no options in the software to alter any settings, also if you are trying to multi-task each time the product scans the window where it is saved opens up on top of what you are doing.
I'm returning this as it's not what I planned on when purchasing this product.

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Photo/Film/Slide Scanner Digitizer

Liked the unit seemed to be everything I wanted except... the unit was defective and would not scan slides. The other features worked fine except the slide scanning. This is why I picked this unit. I returned it to Amazon for a refund.

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Doesn't work on older slides
All my slides from the 60s and 70s come mounted in cardboard holders, as I'll bet most people's slides do. They won't work with this scanner. There is no way you can get your slides out of the cardboard mounts without wasting lots of time and probably ruining your slides. Besides, the dates are stamped on the cardboard, which would then be lost.

The product description just says it does photos, slides, and negatives. It's a big oversight to fail to mention that it won't work for the vast majority of people's slides.

Very Disappointing
First, I have been using scanners and photography equipment for many years and like to think that I have realistic expectations when it comes new products coming on to the market. After receiving this unit, I promptly followed all of the directions for setting the unit up and scanning my first batch of photos. After numerous trial scans and several calibrations, I have come to the conclusion that this unit will not meet any of my needs. Some of the problems that I have noted include:

1. Odd color shifts appearing in the resulting scans.
2. Very noticeable noise in resulting scans at both 300 dpi and 600 dpi.
3. It is very difficult to obtain a properly cropped photo. The auto-cropping function is particularly annoying and there are no user settings to adjust how it acts. The whole point of having a scanner like this one is minimize the post production work necessary.
4. The instructions provided leave a lot to be desired.

Some redeeming qualities include the speed at which the unit scans, which is fairly fast. The size and weight also is very appealing. Most of the descriptions of this product fail to mention that it will also work on battery power which is a great selling point if only the quality of the output was acceptable.

In conclusion, while no scanner in this class and size is going to produce the kind of scans available from a flatbed scanner, this scanner leaves of lot to be desired with the scan quality. I expected better from Kodak. I will be returning the unit and spending my money on a different option.