PHOTOMYNEA4 Slide Viewer | Light Pad Backlight | Negative Viewer | Film Negatives & Old Slides Scanning Light Box | Hands-Free Ultra-Thin Ultimate Brightness (Includes USB Adapter) - Black

Very bright. The last one i had was too dim and I kept inadvertently changing the settings with controls on the face of the light pad. Some reviewers were unhappy that it has no switch or brightness controls, but that just made it more reliable in my opinion.

pretty good for me

Viewer is bright, evenly lit over most of it's surface. Arrived with the usb cable but I did not receive any adapter.

It works like a charm

I'm having fun digitizing my old slides.

Works great to view old slides

The specs for this in its Amazon ad state the power source is "corded electric", leaving the buyer to think it has a cord to plug into an electric outlet. It doesn't. You have to connect this to your computer via USB, which can be REALLY inconvenient. If the top of your desk is already crowded with CPU, monitor, printer, keyboard, and a wi-fi router, this takes up needed space. Plus the little USB connector is so small, it's difficult to connect it to the light table.When I say this is "okay for hobbyists", that's exactly what I mean. You aren't going to get a really good print from any negative or slide you "scan" using any sort of scanning app. The company DOES say this isn't a scanning device, but they use the words "scans" and "scanning" so much, it's easy for people who don't know what real scanning is to get fooled. You're essentially making a photograph of a negative which you then have to import into some sort of image editing software to turn it into a positive that you can adjust for tonality and color. In other words, making a photo of a negative is a useless task. If you want a serious scan, you need a dedicated scanner that scans at high resolution. With this thing, you're just making a photograph of a photograph...and we all know how well that works, don't we?Really, about all this is good for (for me) is taking quick looks at negatives to decide which ones I want to work on in a program such as Photoshop or Lightroom. When I'm not using it for that, it sits on a table away from my work space. When I look at it, it reminds me I should have bought something else.

This was perfect for me as I was given a bunch of old slides photos from my mom and this was easy to use to upload these photos into the app and enjoying viewing these photos for good memories.