Convert negatives to digital images!
Monday 16th February 2009
Filed under What Present To Buy For A Photographer
Remember the good old days when backing up your photo collection meant drawers stuffed full of negatives. Remember squinting at hundreds of metres of brown film, held up to a light, to hopefully find the one image you wanted a copy of before trotting dutifully down to spend a fortune at the photo lab.
Well, those days are gone thanks to the advent of the USB Negative Scanner - a clever little machine that scans 35mm negatives or slides and converts them into digital pics. You can then edit, crop and resize them using the included software ready for printing, archiving or just viewing on screen.
Simply plug the machine to your USB
port (no mains power or batteries required), slip a negative (or slide)
into the respective holder and push it through. The image then appears
on screen. Aagghh! It's Auntie Sue in her bikini, Benidorm 1988.
Then you just wait a few seconds for the intuitive software to adjust the back light and colour balance and hit scan. Before you can say 'oh gawd, look at me fringe!' you'll have a genuine 5 megapixel piccy on your PC.
This is a great gift for mum, dad or anyone who's ever owned a 35mm camera. The USB Negative Scanner is also a brilliant way of getting old photos on social networking sites, especially if your best mate had a hairdo like Pee-wee Herman and your emo sister was into East 17.
Who says you can't turn a negative into a positive?
The USB Negative Scanner is available from Firebox for £79.99.
Monday 16th February 2009
Filed under What Present To Buy For A Photographer
Remember the good old days when backing up your photo collection meant drawers stuffed full of negatives. Remember squinting at hundreds of metres of brown film, held up to a light, to hopefully find the one image you wanted a copy of before trotting dutifully down to spend a fortune at the photo lab.
Well, those days are gone thanks to the advent of the USB Negative Scanner - a clever little machine that scans 35mm negatives or slides and converts them into digital pics. You can then edit, crop and resize them using the included software ready for printing, archiving or just viewing on screen.
Simply plug the machine to your USB
port (no mains power or batteries required), slip a negative (or slide)
into the respective holder and push it through. The image then appears
on screen. Aagghh! It's Auntie Sue in her bikini, Benidorm 1988. Then you just wait a few seconds for the intuitive software to adjust the back light and colour balance and hit scan. Before you can say 'oh gawd, look at me fringe!' you'll have a genuine 5 megapixel piccy on your PC.
This is a great gift for mum, dad or anyone who's ever owned a 35mm camera. The USB Negative Scanner is also a brilliant way of getting old photos on social networking sites, especially if your best mate had a hairdo like Pee-wee Herman and your emo sister was into East 17.
Who says you can't turn a negative into a positive?
The USB Negative Scanner is available from Firebox for £79.99.