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[dave.m]

[kitz]

[tuftedduck]

Your hat is safe, they are one and the same thing, manufactured/distributed by Veho.

Read all about them at www.veho-uk.com

I spend a bit of time going round several imaging sites and have seen reports and reviews about this little device, and sad to say the concensus of opinion seems to be that it is prudent to keep your cash in your pockets.
The quality of the final image appears to be less than you may wish and there are horror stories of the software causing crashes and breakdowns on all platforms.

Having said that, it is considerably cheaper than a dedicated slide scanner but I think that a decent flatbed scanner with a slide insert from Epson or Canon etc will give very much better results and at about the same cost...........such a flatbed will offer a much higher resolution to the finished product than will this little baby.

[dave.m]

[tuftedduck]

Dave, I appreciate why you posted this thread, and I do appreciate that there are good bargains to be had..........my post was not intended as a criticism of anything other than the product itself.

[camallison]

Your hat is safe, they are one and the same thing, manufactured/distributed by Veho.

Read all about them at www.veho-uk.com

I spend a bit of time going round several imaging sites and have seen reports and reviews about this little device, and sad to say the concensus of opinion seems to be that it is prudent to keep your cash in your pockets.
The quality of the final image appears to be less than you may wish and there are horror stories of the software causing crashes and breakdowns on all platforms.

Having said that, it is considerably cheaper than a dedicated slide scanner but I think that a decent flatbed scanner with a slide insert from Epson or Canon etc will give very much better results and at about the same cost...........such a flatbed will offer a much higher resolution to the finished product than will this little baby.

I have an Epson V350 combined flatbed and slide scanner and it is superb.  So much so, I have gone back and rescanned all my 35mm slieds and negs because the qulaity is so good.  They had previously been done on a Nikon "professional" scanner.  Hope my personal experience helps anyone who is looking.

[oldfogy]

To both Dave & TD

If it was not for people like yourselves who go to the trouble of informing others, then we/I would be none the wiser.

Now as it happens I know someone who only the other day who was asking about a "cheap one" to be able to practise etc before going the whole hog and getting something that is supposed to be the bees knees of slide scanners.

So without various inputs into a topic we could be buying blind.

Camallison.
I also have a flatbed scanner "a Medion" and for as much as I use it find the slide adaptor and quality is pretty good.

[kitz]

>> So without various inputs into a topic we could be buying blind.

Agreed

[kitz]

[Floydoid]

... nor would I have thought of looking on Amazon of all places

Funny you should say that Kitz...  I've just now ordered a new mobile phone from Amazon - not the first place I'd have thought of looking, but I was browsing Pricerunner for phones, and Amazon seemed to come up trumps for most models.  Anyway I started browsing round the site and was amazed at the range of phones they do (and the reasonable prices).  So now I've actually broken my Amazon shopping duck.

My old mobie died a natural death after getting waterlogged in a downpour the other week - tried all the usual stuff like letting it dry out on a radiator for a few days, but the display went into terminal decline and now is as dead as John Cleese's parrot.  Panomania tells me that when they go out on military field exercises they put their phones in re-sealable freezer bags.

Gone a bit off topic, but as Kitz has already mentioned, all input is (hopefully) appreciated.

[Floydoid]

Just as an update, new phone arrived yesterday (3 working days) and I'm very happy with it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-1208-Free-Mobile-Phone/dp/B0012RESDK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1225388666&sr=8-1