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It's amazing how all the detail and then some in 35mm slides and negatives is captured in this scanner's 22-megapixel resolution! The scanner's resolution is default-set to the lower 14-megapixel resolution, so if you want the max 22, every time you turn the scanner's power on, you have to manually set the resolution to 22 before you begin scanning, a minor inconvenience. I guess Magnasonic figured the average consumer would favor lower-resolution scans in the interest of saving memory card or hard-drive space. Slides fared better than negatives in transfer quality, particularly in black level, but that's because the black level in my negatives from 30 years and before faded, whereas the slides still have images that look pretty good. Never fear: If you have Adobe Photoshop or a similar image-manipulation program, you can restore much of that black level and color quality, as well as paint out dust and scratches if you're really feeling ambitious. The scanner has rudimentary controls for color-balance and brightness correction of images built-in, in rather large increments, so make a best guess in scanner and then be prepared to do some additional tweaking of the images in Photoshop or another image-manipulation program to get the images as gorgeous as you remember them. I prefer to scan the images a bit on the dark side and then brighten them up in Photoshop, versus scanning the images too bright. Watch those highlights! Once they're gone, blown out white, they're GONE! I tried using this scanner to scan Super 8 movie film and, at much lower 6-megapixel resolution, with horrendous grain, it's basically useless for scanning such small film. For larger film up to 135mm, if your film is in good shape, the images are stunning! I've been saving my images to an SD card, then inserting that SD card via SD card reader into the USB slot in my computer, and it's been great--the computer simply recognizes the scanned images as from any other digital device, at which point you can simply upload them to your computer's hard drive.