Digital photography is great, but what about all those slides and negatives you have from the days of film? The Cordless Slide And Negative Converter can bring your old silver-halide dinosaurs into the 21st Century.

Just slip your 35mm slides and film negatives into the tray and let the fun begin. You see, the tray takes out the guess-work, as it properly aligns your images automatically – plus you can see exactly what you’re looking at thanks to its built-in 2.5-inch TFT color display.

Push the button and your old style negative or slide will be converted into a digital image within 3-5 seconds and stored on the converter’s 32MB flash memory as a JPEG file. Use the SD memory card slot to get your images from the converter to your PC, or use the included USB cable to put them on your Mac.

The rechargeable battery provides up to 400 conversions from either USB (six hours) or AC (three hours) for untethered operation, and photo editing software is included that lets you manipulate your new digital images.

Drag your old film and slides from the Stone Age to the Tech Age for $159.95.

Consumer-level slide and negative converters typically max-out at around a 5-megapixel resolution. But thanks to this high-end scanner called the Professional’s Image Restoring Digital Slide Converter, you can now process professional-grade 18-megapixel 3600dpi scans at home to capture all the details in your original images.

Using award-winning Kodak digital image enhancement software that restores 35mm slide images to their original quality, the scanner automatically removes film grain and surface defects such as dust and scratches, as well as restoring original colors from faded film. With a 50 slide magazine, a built-in preview light panel and including Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 – the Professional’s Image Restoring Digital Slide Converter saves images to your computer over the included USB cable and is available now from Hammacher Schlemmer for $999.95.

THREE SCANNERS IN ONE

If you’re looking to digitize and preserve your old photographic prints, negatives for the photos you’ve lost and that boxful of slides under the bed – you could use the Portable Photograph To Digital Picture Converter plus the Slide And Negative To Digital Picture Converter we’ve seen previously. For a little 3-in-1 magic however, these multifunction marvels called the PICS 2 SD and PICS 2 PC Photo And Negative Scanners will have you scanning all your old 35mm images with the utmost ease and convenience.

PICS 2 PC

Available in two easy-to-use 5.1-megapixel versions, the ION PICS 2 PC is the simpler model – scanning all your images and letting your computer do the gruntwork (including providing power). It sends all your newly digitized memories over USB to your PC or laptop for editing, uploading, burning to CD and storage. Think of the PICS 2 PC as a flatbed scanner specifically designed for photos.

PICS 2 SD

The ION PICS 2 SD throws in all the nice frilly extras and enables you to cut the tether – scanning wherever you like without your computer. Like your digital camera, it saves scans on-the-fly to an SD card via a built-in slot. The SD model includes a 3.2-inch color display for viewing your results and even doubles as a multi-card reader with the option of connecting to your computer over USB – at your convenience.

SCANNING SIMPLIFIED

Both models of the ION Photo and Negative Scanners can capture up to 3600 DPI and feature auto exposure and color balance to make the scanning process push-button easy. They accept traditional 3×5″ plus 4×6″ and 5×7″ prints and can accommodate both 35mm and 110mm negatives. 35mm slides play nice too.

COMPACT IN SIZE

Measuring around 8.7″ (22cm) wide x 6.1″ (15.5cm) high x 7.87″ (20cm) deep, the ION Photo and Negative Scanners are available now from Firebox.com with the PICS 2 PC listed at $184 | £120 | €136 and the portable PICS 2 SD going for $214 | £140 | €158.

If you’ve got shoeboxes full of old photos laying around that you want digitized, but lack the time or patience to do it – this portable print scanner is here to help, effortlessly saving your memories in a snap and without even needing a computer. Called the Portable Photograph To Digital Picture Converter, it quickly produces high-resolution copies of prints up to 4 x 6-inches in size, saving them to your preferred memory card format. You can then pop the card directly into a digital photo frame to display your photos, or download the contents to your computer for editing, sharing or archiving.

With zippy twin rollers that feed each photo under the scanner in seconds (see video), the Portable Photograph To Digital Picture Converter captures each image at a high 1800 x 1200 resolution, then saves it as a JPEG file on your choice of either CompactFlash (CF), MemoryStick (MS), MemoryStickPro (MS-Pro), MultiMediaCard (MMC), SecureDigital (SD) or ExtremeDigital (XD) memory cards.

The included 512MB SD card can store up to 250 pictures at the scanner’s highest resolution and as the Digital Picture Converter doubles as a USB card reader, you can simply connect the scanner to your computer via the included USB cable and it will show up as a regular external storage device – allowing you to drag-and-drop your images to-and-from your memory card.

Powered by an included AC adapter and weighing just 2lbs, the Portable Photograph To Digital Picture Converter is ready to scan wherever you can find a wall outlet and is available now from Hammacher Schlemmer for $119.95. Too easy.

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Hammacher Schlemmer

The Slide And Negative To Digital Picture Converter is a helpful gadget that makes digitizing all your old 35mm slides and negatives easy. Featuring a tray that takes care of film alignment, it will scan your images at the push of a button and send them to your computer over USB.

Also known as the Preserve Your Memories Slide And Negative Converter, it works in much the same way as Ion’s Film 2 SD Negative Scanner we’ve seen previously. Sporting a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor that will scan images at up to 1,800dpi, the Slide And Negative Converter automates the scanning process, taking care of color balance and exposure control for quick, but clear digital reproductions.

The Slide And Negative To Digital Picture Converter includes a USB cable and image editing software to crop and resize your scans, but unfortunately appears to only be compatible with Windows XP or Vista. If you’re “a PC“, head on over to Hammacher Schlemmer who have this slide and negative scanner available for $99.95. Also, check out their demonstration video to see just how easy it is to use.

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Hammacher Schlemmer

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