Negative and Film Scanner (Veho VFS-001me 5 Mega pixel slide+negative scanner)

Member Name: Qaliq

Product:	Veho VFS-001me 5 Mega pixel slide+negative scanner
Date:	10/12/08 (629 review reads)
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Advantages: Good to digitalize your photo library

Disadvantages: Very time consuming, scan quality is not amazing

The Veho Film Scanner scans negatives and slides straight to your computer. Very useful if you want to digitalize your photo collection. This scanner sells for about £70 online.

Now, I'm no photography expert, but in my honest opinion if you can afford it I would go for a more expensive model. The scanner itself I think is fine but the auto scan function means that you cannot adjust the light manually so it automatically adjusts this before scanning, for most pictures this is fine but can be a problem for dimly lit/nighttime shots and you have to mess with the levels in photoshop and it's quite time consuming. My other problem with it is that although it was easy to use it was pretty time consuming and I didn't like the fact that even if you installed the drivers you didn't seem to be able to use any other program than the bundled software which was slow and quite difficult to use. Also this didn't work on my mac so I had to use someone elses Windows computer, not a huge deal but a slight annoyance. I haven't actually seen or used any other negative scanners but I have had negatives put onto a cd before by a processing shop and it seems the quality of that is much better so I imagine a more expensive scanner would produce those kind of results.

To sum up I would probably give it 2/5 - the picture quality is ok, and for what I wanted it for it was fine and i guess is what you should expect for the price but I would probably recommend going for one of the more expensive models with consistent good reviews or if you don't have many negatives take them to boots where they put them onto a cd for you for about £4/film!

Summary: alright for a budget model, pay the money for a more expensive scanner if you can afford it

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