Originally submitted at Brookstone
Bring your old photos into the digital age with this slide and negative converter.
If you have a drawer full of old photo negatives and slides, you need iConvert™. This easy-to-use digital converter combines the functionality of both a 35mm film scanner and 35mm slide scanner into one...
Not for serious photography enthusiasts
Gift: Yes
Pros: Compact
Cons: Unreliable
Describe Yourself: Tech Savvy
My husband got me this for my birthday and I was thrilled because I prefer shooting film over shooting digital, but I still want to be able to have a quick way to get my photos online for people to view. It was easy to set up, and fast to scan. However, the quality of the scan was lacking. The colors were not as vivid as they should have been, the picture wasn't too sharp, and the highlights were blown-out. I thought that maybe it was just a badly exposed negative, so I tried a few that I knew were exposed well and produced a good print. Again, the highlights were very blown-out and the picture wasn't sharp. Because it's close by, I took the same negatives to Walmart and had them scanned. The quality was superior. We returned the product. It may be good for someone who is just looking for a quick way to get their negatives converted to digital (but if I were one of those people, I would pay maybe $50 at the most for a product that did that), but not for a photophile who needs the details to come out crisp and clear and not blown-out.
Scanned with iConvert
Tags: Made with Product
Actual picture from negative, no post-processing
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