iConvert Slide and Negative Digital Scanner for PC and Mac
by Brookstone
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Customer Review: Sorry I didn't read the reviews first!
Summary: 1 Stars
Shame on Brookstone for putting such a low quality item in the store! Their reputation for quality is taking a hit. I bought their scanner in the after-Christmas sale. My brand new Windows Vista laptop cannot connect to the scanner. None of the drivers on the installation disk work. The thing is very lightweight and plasticky. The instructions are horrible and useless. I'm taking it back tomorrow and will be hesitant to ever buy anything with the Brookstone name on it. By the way, the clerk at the store told me the scanner does a great job and none had been returned. Based on my experience and the other reviews, this has to be a lie.Customer Review: Appalling
Summary: 1 Stars
iConvert Slide and Negative Scanner
This thing tries to get the same amount of total light out of each slide. Faces in a darker background are utterly, completely, totally washed out. Even with slides that are well balanced in value, the whites wash out. I scanned some excellent slides with horrible results. Also, not that it would have helped the product any, but the guide was written by someone for whom English was a second language.
Customer Review: BUYER BEWARE!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Scan quality was terrible. Scan results were nowhere near the quality of the slides as shown from a slide projector. Colors weren't true, contrast was terrible, results were not in focus, and the included photo editing would not fix the problems. The instructions were incomplete. You had to figure out what to do next yourself. This product should never have come to market, and Brookstone should never have let it be sold. Hopefully they will not restock this item.Customer Review: Scans are awful
Summary: 1 Stars
This scanner looked like a great idea, but it is no good at all. The scans are washed out and weak even on nice slides. I can't get the software to change its scanning parameters or where it saves to. Maybe it's me, but I'm usually good at this stuff.
It'd be nice if the scanner worked with other software packages besides the included one, but it doesn't.
All in all, this is going back to the store this week.
Customer Review: Disappointed in scan quality
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this mainly for scanning slides (Kodachrome). My previous scanner was a Polaroid SprintScan, and iConvert just does not compare - It especially has problems with the range of contrast of the slides - where the polaroid created balanced scans, the iConvert scans were totally washed out in the lighter area.
Also, I was unable to get the color to match the original slide, or even close.
I have returned this item.