Customer Reviews

NEW! SVP FS1200 Black Digital Film 35mm Negative & Slides Scanner

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I had problems with this product on my lap top - Windows 7. The snapshot/copy did not work, which completely defeated the point. I got to see the negatives, but could not convert to digital photos. Once I downloaded the driver and program on my main computer, which is Windows 2000 or XP, it worked great!

NEW! SVP Digital Film 35mm Negatives & Slides Scanner (Black in color)!

For some time I had wanted a scanner for film and negatives. The flatbed one I had seemed so cumbersome and when I saw this one I drooled. The price of $129.00 for other similar devices was a little steep for my budget.
The reviews were not giving me warm fuzzy feelings either. Some of the comments were of cropped heads, poor quality pictures, horrible customer service and a few other horrors.
I persevered and found the SVP FS1200 for $49.00 also on Amazon. There were only 5 reviews, but I reasoned that price was better than $129.00 and worse things could happen. So I ordered it and within days it arrived. The box said "Easy as 1-2-3 to install.
So I dove in and it was that easy...actually I made it harder b/c I couldn't believe it could be so easy, so I kept looking for the hard part.
I followed the instructions and everything was going well. I have Windows XP. In the beginning of the booklet it tells how to set up the film and slides. It then goes into how to install the software and driver, followed by using the slide and film converter. This part threw me for a loop (this is where I was trying to make it harder), b/c they say to calibrate the scanner. However, the instructions just before say not to insert the tray, but it doesn't say when to insert the tray after calibrating. Once I reread the manual, I realized they did tell you how to insert the tray, and I just assumed you should do so once it is calibrated. So that maybe took 5 more minutes to figure out. No biggie.
I put in 3 slides and the first one came up and then the second one. The third one had a full body shot and the head was chopped off. Oh! Right someone had mentioned that in a review of the other similar product.

You are able to move the slides while they are in the tray by sliding it back or forth, which shows up as a big blur. Don't get scared, it will adjust back to a clear sharp image. The scan was quick, it was clear and you can adjust color and brightness there or once it is on the computer with the software.
The headless one, I rescanned and rotated the slide around so that the next time I scanned it was on the side. Once in the software I rotated it to full Head and body image.
I played around with the software a bit, which was easy to use and offered some basic features. I am sure you can use whatever software you have.
All in all I was impressed with the speed it downloaded and installed, with the swift capture of the images and clarity of the images. It took no more than 30 minutes.
I will post back after I play a little more.
I also just received Dragon Naturally 10 and now I want to play with that for a bit to see if it is as easy as they say. What a fun day to play on the computer with software and gadgets!

This negative scanner is NOT Mac compatible!!!
The return policies of this company make it worthless to try and make a return- you have 14 days after you receive it, you cannot return "computer products," you have to pay shipping back, AND a 20% restocking fee.
Do not order from this company unless you are absolutely sure what you're ordering is EXACTLY what you want and will work correctly.

I recieved my scanner within a couple days of placing the order. Very happy with that service. I've only used the scanner a couple times now, but so far it's working as promised. A no thrills scanner, but it's easy to use and pretty quick, not to mention a kick to see the old photos! Thanks for the great service! I had to contact the seller to find out tracking info. I had a reply within an hour complete with a tracking number. Then I discovered I didn't have a manual for the product and emailed the seller. Again lightening fast response in the evening letting me know that he would contact the manufacturer and get back to me. Today,a day later, I received a response and will get the manual mailed off to me. I wish anything I had to buy, could come from this seller....THANK YOU for showing what customer service is.

Have not used this item much yet but put about 200 neg. on my computer so far. Works very good so far. The only thing that could be helpful would be if you could FOCUS the scanner before taking the snapshot. I also wrote the company some 14 days ago about trying to get another tray for neg. and have not received any answer. Of course nowdays when I write a company I never expect an answer back cause they just don"t seem to care anymore. All in all agood scanner for the money.

Excellent little scanner for 35mm work. It made short work of scanning in my
30+ years of photos and slides. The software that comes with it is OK, but
you may want to use another program to clean them up after scanning if
you have a lot of old faded photos like I did. Otherwise, I'm quite pleased with it.

I have appreciated being able to get more than 400 slides converted to digital copies in a relatively short and very inexpensive way! This is great! If anything, I wish the slide holder was a bit easier to use and could hold more than just three slides. But this tool beats anything else we looked into for getting our slides converted to digital!

The SVP slide scanner never worked for me, I was carefull in downloading the hardware, but could never get the scanner to project an image on the computer monitor.
I tried getting in touch with Silicon Valley Periphials, by e-mail. There was no reply, also no telephone number. I tried to contact the distributor Slim Sharp, to no avail, I finally got in touch with Amazon, who to their credit asked me to return the hardware for refund.
I am of the opinion that any company who do not back up their products with some sort of customer service must have little faith in the product they are selling. I would not buy this product again, in any form. I truly believe that if one wants to transfer 35 mm slides to a disc, one will have to use equipment that is probably far more expensive than the project is worth.
It is possible that the scanner does work. but without some sort of customer support back up I do not have any way of knowing.

This product is easy to use and makes shooting film cameras more fun than ever. A great price and a great product.

I have had the same problem as a previous review - I loaded the software in one computer and then could not get the computer to even recognize that the scanner was plugged in. Then tried it in another computer and it worked briefly as I tried it with 3 slides. Several days later, ready to get to work on a pile of slides, that computer wouldn't recognize it. And the quality of scans of the 3 slides was fair at best - often cutting the photo off at the top cutting off people's heads. As far as I am concerned, this was a piece of junk and now it's too late to get a refund as it was purchased early Dec. as a Christmas gift.