Photomyne A7 Mini Light Pad – Slide & Film Negative Scanning Viewer

A simple product that simply provides what it promises: an even bright light to illuminate slides and negatives for scanning. it is small, so perhaps not as useful for a large number of items to be scanned, but works extremely well for the small number of slides that I needed to scan. Images are high quality and editing tools were effective.

I wanted to use this is a quick-and-dirty way of scanning negatives, and it served the purpose well. Set the negative on the light pad under a piece of glass to keep it flat, shoot with a digital camera + macro lens from a tripod, remote-triggered. This light pad is small so I'm forced to shoot one negative at a time instead of a whole strip, but I prefer that anyway maximize resolution and to avoid distortion. Quite satisfactory results for proofing, and I suspect with some tinkering with Photoshop settings etc I could match or exceed commercial labs for image quality.

It does the job it was design for; bright, convenient and ease of use.

I always several Photomyne products. The unit retired professional photography teacher at a college level. I recommend them I own I own a larger light pad and I wanted something smaller.. so it was on sale. You can do slides negatives, black and white color. You can also put a photo on it. It’s sturdy as great brightness. It’s thin. You can flip it over and use it as a backdrop. I photograph baseball cards, small items I recommended highly all the products are worth it. They have an excellent customer service. You can connect it to any USB C I have power banks you could put it in your pocket or purse. I hope this helps you with a decision to buy it.

This is a nice little light, it works for a single medium format slide and is great for limited space. I'm keeping this one next to my scanner. The main problem is the lack of a power button or any kind, you plug it in to USB and it lights up, unplug it to turn it off. Since it's very bright I don't want to leave it on constantly, it gets in the way of doing other things. But if I'm turning it off and on between each slide switch in the scanner I'm going to break the USB port with the push/pull.

This is a very useful tool for converting old slides to digital! It’s small, easy to use and the light is powered by a USB cord, enclosed in the package. I spent 3 days converting 50+ years of slides into digital albums in my Photomyne App. I highly recommend this device.

Works great!

Great photo scanning tool! Great Portability!