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Veho Film and Slide Converter | 
| Brand: Brookstone
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Electronics
MPN: 582544
UPC: 883594013201
EAN: 0883594013201
ASIN: B000X45BAM
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| Features:
| • | Five megapixel resolution. | | • | High quality, 4-element glass lens. | | • | XP and Vista OS compatible. | | • | Includes photo editing software. | | • | Turns your old negatives and slides into an organized digital photo library. |
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Product Description
Preserve your family?s most treasured memories with a slide converter! Turn your old negatives and slides into an organized digital photo library! Simply use this innovative slide to digital converter and transfer old slide shows and film negatives to your PC. Order your Veho film and slide scanner today and share favorite photos for generations to come! A slide and negative scanner is easy to use. Digitizing your old negatives and slides couldn?t be easier! With the Veho, scans take one touch and only a half a second! Connected via a USB 2.0 port, you?re now ready to transfer, archive, duplicate, print, and edit photos any way you see fit. Give your photos new life with a slide to digital converter! Slide converter transforms 35mm negatives and slides into convenient files. The Veho negative scanner features 5-megapixel resolution. High-quality 4-element lens ensures scan integrity. Windows XP and Vista OS compatible. Photo editing software included. A negative scanner makes a great gift! Do you know a family historian who would love the convenience of archiving boxes of slides into handy digital files? Once scanned with the slide converter, your photos can be easily shared via the Web or e-mail. This negative scanner is also a great way to safeguard family memories for the 21st century! Order your Veho film and slide scanner now!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Rick November 21, 2007
Rick S. Foster (Maine, USA)
217 out of 220 found this review helpful
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.
 Scanner: Good; Software: Bad November 29, 2007
Anne M. Thorson
69 out of 76 found this review helpful
I found the scanning software to be clunky and inaccurate. It would allow you to scan a slide and adjust the color & saturation levels, but the final image would look NOTHING like the preview - it was more of a trial-and-error process. Scanning in a negative was even worse: the preview would show you what the negative looked like, not the photo, so it's impossible to tell how to adjust the levels to make the picture look better. I had to wait until I'd saved the image and looked at it in another program before I could tell if my adjustments even worked. The actual use of the machine is simple, but the software renders it worthless.
 Pleasantly SURPRISED at value for the money!! December 30, 2007
Paul C. Kelbaugh (Forest, VA United States)
59 out of 59 found this review helpful
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. 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.
Not Up to Snuff December 11, 2007
Richard A. Lawhern (Fort Mill, SC USA)
44 out of 47 found this review helpful
Looking for an affordable solution for converting over 3000 Ektachrome slides, I purchased the Veho Film and Slide Converter through Amazon's off-site connection to Brookstone. (This unit appears identical to one by Hammacher Schlemmer). Perhaps the only good thing I have to say for the Veho was that Brookstone issued a return authorization with no hassle or argument.
I was able to install the hardware and software without a hitch, using the provided CD. ArcSoft's Photo Impression 6 isn't terrible, though it isn't all that outstanding either, lacking some of the features of PhotoShop or Compupic Pro. However, after several hours of trying, I was unable to get a single properly color-balanced or focused image from my slides. The "automatic exposure control and color balance" built into the scanner were completely inflexible, producing washed-out, over-exposed images with white skies. The final exasperation was when the input portal "door" broke off its hinge -- after perhaps 12 hours of use.
There must be an affordable solution for slide scanning out there somewhere. But this isn't it.
Good amateur scanner December 31, 2007
J. W. Cross (Alexandria, Virginia)
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
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.
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