Veho Film and Slide Converter

Product Details

• ASIN: B000X45BAM
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,890 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 28, 2010

Product Description

Veho Film and Slide Converter: This device converts old 35mm slides and film negatives into digital images, allowing you to easily preserve your memories without having to rely on a conversion service.

Customer Reviews

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217 of 220 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rick, November 21, 2007

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Rick S. Foster (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Veho Film and Slide Converter (Personal Computers)

I've been looking for a simple, quick and quality scanner for years. Previous tries with flatbed scanners were quite disappointing. However, this unit is incredibly good! Set up was quick and easy--the directions were accurate and complete. And the quality is perfect. We we able to scan and save hundreds of old slides and negatives. This is a superior product. It scans the slide or negative in just a second or so, saving literally hours of time compared with the flatbeds that required a minute or more to scan. Highly recommended.

59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly SURPRISED at value for the money!!, December 30, 2007

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Paul C. Kelbaugh (Forest, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Veho Film and Slide Converter (Personal Computers)

I received the Veho Film and Slide Converter for Christmas. Now, understand that I have been lusting for a Nikon Coolscan V for almost two years. But all those gift hints were being ignored by those people most likely to take the plunge and buy a slide and negative scanner for me. <S I G H > Something about "cost benefit analysis." So, I was mildly surprised when the Veho unit appeared under the Christmas tree! As I type this review, I have just spent an entire day processing slides and photo negatives with the Veho unit. I am pleased. If you are looking for something hands free or something to load and walk away from, this is NOT the unit for you. It requires diligence and you have to keep your wits about you. BUT IT GETS THE JOB DONE! My net yield for my casual efforts today were about 75 slides and an additional 30 negative strips fed into my computer photo files. Since I have about 3,000 slides to go and about 800 negative strips, I can see this becoming a long term project. But, the results are impressive.

The software loads easily and is intuitive. The minimalist operating manual provides just enough information.

Warning - as of the date of this review, the support software is PC only. I'm a Macintosh user. Fortunately, I use an iMac running operating system 10.5.2 and have loaded a partition on my computer to allow me to also run Windows Vista. I operate in PC/Vista mode and archive my work to a CD disk. Then I reboot in Macintosh mode and copy the contents of the archive photo CD with iPhoto and/or Aperture software. Not the best way to do business, but I am willing to kludge this together to make it all happen.

Summary - It does what it advertises it will do and the end result is quite good for one-fourth the cost of the Nikon Coolscan V. Do I wish I had the Nikon Coolscan? Yes. Am I getting the job done with the Veho Film and Slide Converter? Absolutely. Practical and economical. Four stars for a good product. It loses one star because of the lack of Mac software.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good amateur scanner, December 31, 2007

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J. W. Cross "Virginia Reviewer" (Alexandria, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This is not a professional slide and negative scanner, nor does it claim to be. However, for my purposes, getting passable scans of my old slides that I can later optimize, it fills the bill, and at a very reasonable cost.

Some negative reviewers complain about the quality of the scans, and when I first started using the scanner, I got very uneven results. After a short time, however, I discovered that the software performs an incremental optimization of the image. If one waits until the image is optimized (which will depend on the speed of one's computer), the results are much more even. When I am dissatisfied with the results I can readily get something better from the scans by adjusting the brightness, contrast and gamma. High contrast slides tend to be the least acceptable without additional optimization. It is also important to blow off dust from each slide prior to scanning with a can of compressed gas. Otherwise, dust will ruin the results, but that will be true of any scanner.

I am very happy that I can view my old slides again.