A company called ION have produced an ingenious little negative scanner that should make preserving all your old photos a little easier. Called the Film 2 SD, it quickly scans negatives from your film camera and either stores them on an SD card you pop in the top, or transfers them directly to your computer over USB.

The Film 2 SD includes an LCD display on the front so you can preview and flip your images and will scan them in at up to 5-megapixels in resolution. Ion claims each scan takes one to two seconds and with one-touch operation, the hardest part about using this gadget will probably be the loading/unloading of film strips.

Including a 1GB SD card, the Film-2-SD Negative Scanner can perform and capture up to 700 5-megapixel scans right out of the box, without needing to be connected to your computer – plus will also accommodate up to 8GB SD, micro SD and SDHC cards for extra capacity.

The ION Film-2-SD Negative Scanner is available now from Firebox.com for £99.95 or Amazon.com for $129.87.

Sources:
Firebox.com and Ion (Product Page)
Via: Pocket Lint