Ion Audio Photo, Slide, and Film Scanner (PICS2SD)

by ION Audio

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.7 x 10.6 inches ; 3.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0038WJXIM
• Item model number: PICS2SD
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #34 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Scanners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 2, 2010

Product Description

Color: Black

Enjoy your old pictures on your digital picture frame. Rediscover your long-lost photo prints, slides, and film negatives with PICS 2 SD. This high-quality scanner transfers your images directly onto an SD card so you can enjoy your old pictures with the latest technology. Thanks to PICS 2 SD's large, full-color LCD screen, you don't even need a computer to make it work! You can view your images on your digital picture frame, your television if it has an SD card slot, your mobile phone with a micro SD slot, computer, and other portable devices. Imagine all of your memories with you at home or anywhere you go. PICS 2 SD is fast and easy to use. Just one button starts the scan, which takes an average of one to two seconds! Convenient auto focus, auto exposure, and auto-color balance mean you don't have to be a photo whiz to make great digital images. PICS 2 SD does all the hard work for you. PICS 2 SD has a built-in SD card slot, so you can scan directly to virtually any SD card without needing a computer. You can also connect PICS 2 SD to your Mac or PC and use it as a handy SD card reader. You can drag and drop your pictures from PICS 2 SD right onto your desktop. PICS 2 SD makes high-resolution scans of all of your color and black & white slides and film negatives. PICS 2 SD is portable, lightweight, and has an ultra-small footprint so you can take it with you and scan your friends' and family's pictures too. Start rediscovering your old pictures today with PICS 2 SD.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

66 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ion Digital Photo, Slide, ands Film Scanner, September 7, 2010

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CJ from Philly - See all my reviews

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I am using this product to convert my old slides (from travels) to digital images so that I can put them all on DVDs and get rid of my old carousels and slide projector.Ion Audio Photo, Slide, and Film Scanner (PICS2SD). The item comes with terrible directions, so be prepared to have difficulty figuring out how to use it. Then, the process is pretty easy, and fast to scan our slides. The conversion does often result in images with a purple cast. I put them in iphoto to make color corrections the best I can, and my slides don't look too bad! This does add a lot of extra time, though. Also, the machine is supposed to store up to 14 images, but after scanning one image, it said "full" and it wouldn't store any more. I was on the phone with Ion company and they couldn't figure out why I was having this problem, although, I noticed another reviewer had the same problem. I could have returned it, but it works well with my SD card and so I kept it. If you are looking to convert your old slides, so that you can preserve memories, I would consider this machine, knowing it is not a perfect one. It will ultimately do the job for you and it is so much more convenient to pop a CD or DVD into the computer than set up slides. We can now enjoy looking at slides we haven't seen for 20 years!!

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super great..., November 24, 2010

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Janet L. Smith - See all my reviews
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I was very pleased with this item....if your slides are good quality the transfers will be in good quality...very fast and easy...didn't really need to read the instructions...don't know why others had a hard time...just put a few in and work with the buttons a little and you will catch on quick...I did at least 700 slides that were over 20 years old....didn't take long at all, even let 8 year old granddaughter help...after the holidays I plan on doing my many boxes of negatives, did a test on some black and white negs they turned out great...Love this machine, plan on sharing long lost family pics during Thanksgiving !!!

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No Bang for the buck, August 30, 2010

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Mike - See all my reviews

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The unit did not work well with photos. Scans did not look good. When the same photo was scanned with a 8 year old scanner the difference was very noticeable.
The Ion scanner scanned in 5M and the scanner scanned in 300dpi. File (JEPG) sizes were 1.05 mb Ion scanner and 1/2mb Acer scanner. I would have to believe it is the ion scanner itself with its LED light that is the scan quality issue that I have had.
Several observation points:
1. Scan Quality is an issue in my opinion with this scanner.
2. Scan quality/file size is another issue.
3. Internal memory holds only 3-4 photos far short of what the manual states.
4. Transfer to the computer via usb is ok but needs to be more direct without having to use a usb to computer dump menu option.
A software option solution would work far better, as I would assume most will be using a computer with this unit. For the cost of the unit I would expect that.
5. The Ion unit needs a solution for handling photo sizes out of the norm. If the photo is slightly larger than the holder it will not fit. If it is smaller removal from the unit is problematic. Maybe an adjustable holder for odd sizes.

This unit is not worth the money in the present way it works. As a potential time saver in scanning it has that potential but at present I would look for another solution.

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