Wolverine F2D 35mm Film to Digital Image Converter with 2.4-Inch LCD and TV-Out

by Wolverine

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 5.2 x 5.2 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002TKMG92
• Item model number: F2D200
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (266 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #68 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Scanners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 20, 2009

Product Description

Wolverine has created a very simple to use device to convert all your 35mm film into a 5 mega pixel JPEG digital images in seconds. So simple to use, it only requires a push of button - NO computer or software is needed.Use it right out of the box to convert all your 35mm Negatives and Slides by simply plugging it into an AC outlet or any USB port. All images are saved on internal memory or external SD memory card for your convenience to instantly play them on the unit's color screen, TV or upload them to your computer.

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450 of 454 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for . . ., March 27, 2010

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D. Luke (Grand Canyon State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wolverine F2D 35mm Film to Digital Image Converter with 2.4-Inch LCD and TV-Out (Electronics)

Recently ended up with several thousand family 35 mm slides and promised my brothers I would scan the slides and create a digital collection for each one of them. Received the scanner and after a bit of reading, had the slide scanner up and working relatively quickly. Previously I scanned on an HP Scanjet 5470 and the process was slow and not the best copy quality. I am finding that of the slides I have scanned so far with the Wolverine scanner, they are all coming out on the dark side and require work to optimize contrast, etc. Many of the slides that are winter shots are washing out as if the light source in the scanner is not consistent across the surface. No amount of processing with software has, so far, taken the scanned images to an acceptable image. If I had to do it over, I would invest in a better scanner.

339 of 345 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does it for me, great if you can adjust bad photos yourself., February 17, 2010

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bblhed "bblhed" (New England) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wolverine F2D 35mm Film to Digital Image Converter with 2.4-Inch LCD and TV-Out (Electronics)

First I need to say the reason I bought this scanner was so that I can scan film shot on an odd format 35mm narrow frame camera so I just needed a scanner that could scan negatives that I could do my post work on later if I needed to. This scanner does that with the brutal honesty that I needed so that I can fix my errors in post and also learn from them. If you took a crappy picture with your camera this thing will render a crappy scan. If your scan is dark or light blame your camera work not the scanner. I ran a roll of mostly overexposed photos through this scanner and the correctly exposed photos looked great, the overexposed photos, not so much. A little post magic with Gimp (free photo processing software, very hands on) and I have a great set of pictures and know what I did wrong. I had a local one hour place process and scan this same roll for me, and all the photos they did looked great, thy admitted that they "enhanced" them. This scanner shows you what you actually shot so you can correct it next time.

So how easy is it to use? From the time I stuck my knife into the tape on the packing box to the time I scanned my first frame only reading the instructions to around page three was about 6 minuets. It took me about 20 min to scan an entire uncut roll of film and get it onto my computer. The unit shows a live view of what you are about to scan so it is easy to position your film, the carrier centers it top to bottom, you have to do left to right. I still have not read the instructions beyond page three, and with a little adjusting on some of my photos they look great, next time I will expose a little better and maybe get rid of a lot of post work, tat was an hour that taught me the value of a light meter.

Some things to note. What is not in the box. There is no SD card, and no TV connecting cable but for $109 who cares I have SD cards, and the built in screen is good enough for the scanning work. The unit is compact, it is smaller than 4 VHS tapes. The film holder does a nice job holding the film. I didn't use the slide holder so I don't know. Like it says, you do not need to hook this to a computer so if you have power you can scan any place you want to like on a table with room to put things and not at a computer desk with little or no room.

Overall unless it dies some time soon I'm really happy with it.

145 of 147 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the money, February 13, 2010

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Sparkey (Redmond, Or United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wolverine F2D 35mm Film to Digital Image Converter with 2.4-Inch LCD and TV-Out (Electronics)

Received this today and within 20 min. was scanning slides. After scanning to SD card 10 slides, took card to printer. The prints were quite good. Since I have 2000+ slides to scan did not want to use the Epson flat scanner to do this--takes way too long to scan slides. Some slides date back to my Grandma taking pictures in 1948. If the slide is on the dark side it will come out a little darker than origional but is still okay.
Highly recommend this for the amature person who is not looking for perfection. I am happy with the results. At least you can now send digitized photos from the long past to your friends and relatives by e mail.