Slide Viewer Light Box 5600K 12”x8” Ultra-Thin Adjustable Brightness Backlight for Slides and Film Negative Scanning

This is a great light box. It is very sturdy and very light weight. It is very thin and easy to carry around if you needed to. I bought it to make digital copies of my 35mm negatives and slides. What I suggest if you want to make copies of negatives or slides is to buy a black kraft paper to place on top of the light box. Cut a rectangle or shape the size of your negative and place the negative on that cut out rectangle. This will prevent from getting any reflections on you lens and then showing up on the digital photo. Since you need to use a macro lens you need to be very close to the light box and eventually to will get a bit of light reflecting on the lens and that will show on the digital photo.

The power button doubles as the brightness control. It's right on top, and it's touch-sensitive. (Not a physical button.) So it is incredibly easy to accidentially turn it off or change the brightness. It's very clumsy. And there is no indication of the brightness setting, so it's virtually impossible to know if you've set it the same for multiple photos.The device itself works fine to take photos with your camera, but that's all it does. The colors always come out more blue than they should.

This "lightbox" exceeded my expectations for quality and design. It has worked flawlessly for viewing slides and negatives: light weight, variable lighting brightness, and a decent size viewing surface that is textured: negatives, etc. are held in position even when the unit is tilted somewhat for easier viewing. An effective, easy-to-use tool for viewing items that need to be backlit.(I saw some reviews that were critical of the directions. The directions included are ALTERNATIVE to use with a downloadable app so you can process negatives for printing. It's an added benefit, not a feature.)

Got rid of an old fashion, actual box, style light box and replace it with this. Its great and love that you can control the amount of light.

I have used a clunky fluorescent light box in the past and wow, this is such a step up. and it does not strobe when used with a digital camera or scanner.Had a problem adjusting intensity until I found there is a trick: turn it on, take finger off button, then press until you have the right brightness. Works a treat. Good value too.

The JFart light pad was well priced.The product delivers what it specified.Great deal.

The light intensity is good if you want to digitalize negative films. The bad thing: the white plastic (light diffuser) has a granulated texture which is noticeable when scanning negative films... it means, if your film is grainy, now because of the diffuser texture it will become more. I managed to reduce the texture by adding a laminar Fresnel on top of it so the texture won't be too noticeable.

Good product, easy to use.