Transfer Your Negatives to Digital Files

The photo bug will be thrilled to have this easy to use scanner to put their photographs from their earliest pictures onto their PC with a push of a button.

The photo lab has now been super-shrunk and put into your living room. The negatives you still store in the acid-free boxes are on their way out the door. The film scanner will take the 35 millimeter format negatives from your pictures are loaded into the scanner and then transferred to your PC as 5 mega pixel digital files.

Imagine being able to get rid of those hundreds of boxes of photographs with their little envelopes of negatives that fall out and scatter every time you look through the box. Now you can scan through them all, and ditch the originals.

Those photos you took while on vacation years ago can now be scanned and shared with someone planning to visit the same place. You can become somewhat of a tour guide for the areas you have visited, and help others explore with some information from a first hand source.

The possibilities are endless when you combine the scanner with the automatic settings to correct for damage that has accrued over time. So the next anniversary that comes around for mom and dad has its gift in progress already. Create a digital photo slideshow of all the pictures of your parents and family as time goes by. Give grandma and grandpa a show of the big events in the grandkids lives, along side those same events of your childhood.

Give this as a gift for a wedding, and let the bride and groom have the chance to not only create digital images of their childhoods, but let them see each other grow up and become the people they are today.

The only requirements are a USB port and Windows XP. The small gadget sits on the desk next to the computer, and is about the size of the ancient automatic pencil sharpener. This device is just a little more useful.

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