Are you having several boxes of those old and dusty 35 mm cordless slides and film negatives? Here is a device that is handy enough to help you convert all your negatives into digital pictures. Which you can then upload those digital copies to flickr for better storage instead of keeping couple of dusty boxes that take up lots of space.
It’s pretty easy to use, just place slides and negatives into a tray that aligns each properly. The converter is alos equipped with a 2.5-inch TFT color display that lets you view what’s going on during the scanning. Touch the button, in just about 3 to 5 seconds, the slide/negative will then get scanned into a JPEG file .
The device also has an SD memory card slot, which lets you insert a memory card to store the digitized slides. A 4GB memory card is able to store up to 5,000 pictures.
The converter has a 9 MP CMOS sensor which is able to scan up to a resolution of 3328 x 2216. It also has other technologies including automatic exposure control, and color balance to produce clear digital images without loss of colors.
The device can operate in a complete cordless manner as it can be operated on its built-in rechargeable battery, which is rechargeable via USB or AC power source and provides up to 400 conversions on a single full charge.
It comes with a USB cable, which you can just plug it to your PC’s USB port for transferring scanned images to a PC running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. Where can you get one? This slide converter can be purchased from Hammacher for $160 each
Other similar slide converters in the market.
The Veho VFS-002 ColorBright slide scanner is a similar product, which comes equipped with the ColorBright technology that promises better clarity of image.
The Veho VFS-002 ColorBright negative/slide scanner will scan 110mm and 35mm films and negative slides onto your Mac and PC via USB port. But it does not have a microSD card slot, so it must be tethered to your computer for scanning.
The Veho scanner also comes equipped with multi-directional insert tray flaps and faster one touch scanning. It’s plug and play, needs no driver. The ColorBright technology also automatically increases the clarity of scanned images.
It shouldn’t have any problem to transform your old and faded negatives and films into bright, crisp and clean digital images. The Veho scanner is available on Scan.co.uk for about £40 each
The Ion Audio Slides 2 PC works similarly, which connects to your PC via the USB port. It’s got a special rail which houses multiple 35mm slides or a strip of negatives that allows you to read, scan and save all at one time.
The device has a 5-megapixel sensor which shall produce high-res digital pictures that are up to your standard. It’s also equipped with a four-glass optic element, together with the built-in exposure control and color correction functionalities, it minimizes the hassle of post-scan touchups. The device costs you only $90 on ion-audio.com, which isn’t too expensive at all for bringing all your precious old pictures back to life.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I HAVE TO AGREE WITH MOST PEOPLE THAT VISTA SUCKS, YOU WOULD THINK WITH ALL THOSE BRAINS AT MICROSOFT THAT THEY COULD COME UP WITH A BETTER WORKING SYSTEM THAN VISTA=THEY OUGHT TO BE MADE TO UPGRADE EVERYONE WHO HAS BOUGHT VISTA =( FOR FREE )=AND I DON’T MEAN GOING THROUGH THE HOLE SETUP AND THEN IT SAYS GET OUT YOUR CREDIT CARD AND PAY X AMOUNT=(FREE IS THE MAGIC WORD )=AND THE SCANNER WORKS WELL ON XP AND 98=BUT ON VISTA IT SUCKS
MARCH-13-2009–9:48PM
March 15th, 2009 at 9:05 am
But the OVT scanner is working on Vista as long as I use the free Picasa2 or Picasa3 photo program which is a free download from the Google web site if it wasn’t on the computer when it was purchased (like it was on mine). I realize OVT should have worked with it’s supplied program (the guide book said it would). But it should not have been up to me to stumble on the fact that Picasa works with the OVT scanner driver.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 am
I have followed the threads with interest. Could someone tell me definitively if there is a machine out there that will work successfully enough and give a good enough quality image, and if so, what is the make and brand
Thanks
March 28th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Check out the reviews of the Canon 8800F on Amazon. They’re all fantastic and have talked me into going that route. Plus it’s a Canon and with it goes excellent customer service (in my experience anyway). More expensive, but sounds like it’s worth it.
March 29th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I have one it’s an ION. It works with VISTA. The OVT Scanner driver seems to be a dud. It want’s to over expose photos. Yes you can correct with editing software but if is over exposed (washed out) you can’t put color back in. DO NOT BUY!!! They need improvement.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
With the OVT scanner on VISTA is where I put only two slides in each tray and wait for the view screen to get dark before I place the slide for snapping. I have now repeated doing 2500 slides that way and the results are very good. I no longer get that washed out look as a result. There is a certain amount of timing that can be learned to get the best result. It’s worth it. Some times several repeated clicks on the button can be used on the unit to maximize the results, especially if the slides are dark or light to begin with.. When I put slides in all three slots on the tray and snapped each one quickly, that’s when I got the overexposed results. I can do about 90 slides in an hour with the two slides in each of four trays. That includes the time required to remove them from the carousol into the tray and replacing them again. I agree that if they are overexposed, there is no way to put the color back in.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:11 am
My H&S Converter (SKU 75800) seems to work on VISTA but:
1. The “calibrate” button in the s/w is never enabled so I’m not able to follow the directions for frequent calibration.
2. My pictures are considerably darker than my slide images in a viewer.
Anyone know fixes? Thanks
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
I have the QVT scanner from Brookstone but am having problems getting the software to work. I have Vista and when I try to open the software for scanning the slides it says that there’s a compatibility problem with Windows and it shuts down. There isn’t a solution available. Has anyone had this problem?
July 4th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
After seeing The Slide and Negative to Digital Picture Converter (FJ-75800 $99.95) in Hammacher Schlemmers’ Summer Preview 2009 Catalog I bid on eBay and won a VuPoint new-in-the-box for $32.00 + $8.99 shipping and handling. I received it and it appears to have never been opened. The VuPoint Software CD is FS-C1-VP-BX2 for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
After reading the enclosed user’s Manual I have not yet inserted the CD into my new Desktop Intel Core2 Duo CPU 2.67 GHz machine with 3.00 GB of RAM. I chose XP Home Version 2002 with Service Pack 3.
After reading ALL of the above Responses since October of 2007, I’m thinking of putting everything back inti the little box and using a Conversion service or taking digital pics of the projected slides as some of the others have done.
My frustration level is at the point you’d expect it to be after getting a ‘Blue Screen’ twice in the last 2 weeks on my laptop (had to replace the harddrive the first time-still have not tried to reboot since the second) after using an upgraded version of a MicroSoft product which will remain nameless for the time being; I’ll deal with that in another forum.
It seems as if we are getting more and more technically advanced and the time we save is spent learning how to cope with the new technology.
Can anyone say if I have a current version of the VuPoint that may have the bugs worked out of the driver?
July 10th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Sheri,
Read my comments at 121, 123, and 127 above. Good luck.