Medalight 35mm Desk Top Portable LED Negative and Slide Viewer + AA Batteries + Microfiber Cleaning Cloth

I am a Vietnam war vet and I have hundreds of slide that took while in-country. I have not looked at these slides in 35 years! Too many memories still.....But I thought that before I head into the final roll call, I’d like to see what it was all about. Got the slide viewer and it was as advertised only better. Great build quality! Work just great right out of the box and had more versatility than I thought. At any rate, I started to look at the slides and the more I viewed the more tears would come. But I got through a bunch of them before I decided to call it a night. Sorry for all the emotion. The viewer performed flawlessly and the led lighting was great in deleting moot spots. Great product if you are in the market for a top knotch slide viewer. Great product,excellent service from vendor. Would highly recommend.

I just received two of these slide viewers and I am delighted. It can be used on the table top, leaving hands free or it can be hand-held. It is just the right size. It works slightly differently than the smaller hand-held ones which has advantages. Usually, you hold the slide down with your finger for viewing. This turns on the light and you can view the image. This viewer has a button to turn on the light and the slide is dropped into the slot for viewing. This leaves your hands free and also makes it easier for several people to use the viewer at once. When you have finished viewing another button ejects the slide onto the tray below. Very clever and practical. It uses 4 double-A batteries which come with the view, as well as a cleaning cloth. I just thought this was very kind.My husband was an artist and he took thousands of photographs of his work over the 60 years he was working. Hundreds of these images are in slide format. He recently passed away and I am planning a celebration of his work, leaving me to sort through this mountain of slides. I was thinking of having a carousel of slides constantly showing the work but 1) I couldn't get the carousel to work and 2) the lights would need to be off in that room, making it less able to do anything else in that room so I decided to go with hand-held. I bought two other hand-held viewers and when I realized I needed more, I purchased two of these. This product, while slightly different in nature, is a slightly better quality. I am very glad I bought them.

This viewer has been well-reviewed by numerous other purchasers. It was delivered quickly, the slides view well using this device (the light, magnification, and battery life are very good), and we find the 1950s/60's-era slides tend to get stuck rather frequently. I purchased this viewer as phase 1 of a three phase "put our parents' slides on digital media" exercise. My 91 yo parents, still blessed with mobility, curiosity, and mental clarity are using the device to review slides before we move to the 2nd phase - digitizing. My Dad indicates he has speeded his review process by holding the slide over the lit viewer to get the gist of the subject. IF it needs additional review before deciding to digitize or not, he will actually put it in the viewer...otherwise, the light is sufficient to make quick work of the sorting. After digitizing, I'll need them to key in descriptions of the picture subjects, where the pix were taken, when, and what the occasion was. Without a working projector, this device is an essential, cost-effective tool in completing this project.

Like some of the other reviews mentioned, old cardboard framed slides do get occasionally hung up. By tilting the viewer toward me I was able to drop old slides through it without any of them hanging up, so technique plays a small part in how well it works. The light source is perfect for viewing the slides and not overly bright which would make viewing a lot of slides uncomfortable over time. Bottom line: It helped me sort through hundreds of slides to determine which ones will be saved to a disk at a reasonable cost with minimal effort.

After looking at many reviews on Amazon, I chose this viewer to go through the many slides my grandmother had. The unit looks nice, and it was easy to get the batteries in and get it going. However, I looked at two slides before the unit jammed with the third slide inside and unable to be ejected. Using the suggestions of some others, I tried shaking the unit. It literally fell apart! The slide was jammed inside, and I had to use tweezers to get it out. It was jammed in so tight I almost had to destroy the slide to remove it. I tried about three more times and had several more slides get stuck before deciding the unit was useless to me. Either it is defective or just poorly designed. I am sending it back immediately.

I bought this as a slide viewer. I have not used this unit to view negative film so I can't comment on that.As a slide viewer, it has a solid build, excellent quality, much better than units I have had from other companies. The image viewed is sharp, bright, & vivid. My only complaint is the method of slide ejection from the viewer. Sometimes, the side gets stuck. I have to tilt the unit to get the slide out. I found the really critical thing is to push the eject bottom in completely until the slide is actually in the tray.

The viewer was very well packaged. In fact it was delivered in three boxes, one packed into another. This first to hold the viewer, the second to add the batteries and the microfiber cloth and the third to protect everything. The battery compartment door is easy to remove to insert the four AA batteries. The electrical connections for the batteries are of the folded plate type which is a bit cheap at this price point. The more durable coil spring type would have been preferred. The catch for the battery lid is very marginal and does not inspire confidence that it will hold.The switch for the backlight is a toggle switch allowing the backlight to stay on when viewing slides. The LED backlight is bright and fills the view with even white light. The glass lens is clear and there is only a slight pin cushion distortion visible, but is does not bother normal viewing. Using a rudimentary method to measure the magnification it came out to be about 3.2 times. The lens had some smudges and dust on it which was easily removed with the included microfiber cloth. The output aperture of the lens provides enough even light to preview the slide before sliding it into the slot, which is a bonus.The slides are best viewed with the viewer placed on a flat surface. The slides easily fit into the slot. I have tested paper frame, plastic frame as well as slides mounted between two pieces of glass. As others have mentioned there is a tendency for slides to get stuck when attempting to release them. This is mainly true for paper framed slides where the relative sharp corners of slide get stuck into the ribbed guide. This is significantly less of a problem for plastic framed slides with their rounded corners.Depending on the thickness of the slide mounts the tray at the bottom can hold up to ten slides before the next slide will not be able to slide through. I have also found that paper slides get stuck on the slide below preventing them from lying flat. This is solved by placing an object about 3/8 of an inch at the back of the tray allowing the slide at the bottom to lie at an angle.A strip of film also fits nicely in the slots provided. One should take care not to scratch the film when sliding it through (always wear cotton gloves when handling film.)Due to the open slots at the top dust can accumulate on the light diffuser but this is easily solved with a squirt of compressed air. Keep the unit covered when not in use to minimize dust accumulation.I have deducted two stars; one for the cheap battery compartment and one for the sticky slide guide. If this could have been fixed the viewer will get 5 stars

This product came incredibly well packaged with the promised cleaning cloth and package of batteries. It works great. I purchased for my mom who previously bought 2 similar viewers (online but I don't know from where) that didn't work at all. This one is easy to use. occasionally the slide gets caught and you have turn it over to knock it out, and negatives need to be fairly flat, but nothing really unexpected. We are delighted with this product

Doing a major project editing slides for scanning. Picture quality and lighting is great, does the job. Only negative is that some of the slides jam when being ejected and I have to shake the thing to get the slide out. Nice that the package incuded batteries and cleaning cloth. Would recommend.

On the plus side, slides fit easily in the slot and the light is sufficient for viewing. A big negative, however, is that they frequently jam when being removed.

We had a 1950's model of this same product that died of corrosion. It was a battery eater. This new LED light seem is brighter than incandescent. We've been using it to view hundreds of our old slides (collections) and the battery is still full charged. I am pleased with my purchase. No complaints.