VehoSmartfix Portable Stand Alone 14 Megapixel Negative Film & Slide Scanner with 2.4” Digital Screen and 135 Slider Tray for 135/110/126 Negatives Compatible with Mac/PC – Black (VFS-014-SF)

A wonderful weekend if converting my in-laws family slides and negatives into digital. Device is easy to use and the quality is amazing. Little to none editing required afterwards. I’d recommend this to everyone. Well worth the money to get those boxes of slides digitalised!

Like many, I have a large, neglected box of colour slides dating back many years. The Kodachrome ones were all in good condition - some other brands (Agfa, anyone?) less so but I hadn't looked at them for years. Making digital copies was the obvious answer for the sake of both preservation and accessibility (transparencies slowly fade and some actually rot). Enter the affordable Veho scanner.Is it easy to use? Not particularly. After a while you get used to the press this button three times to do this, then press that one once to do that and you get a sort of production flow going but it isn't what you would call intuitive.Is it any good? That depends what you expect. It offers a fairly low resolution scan but that's not necessarily a bad thing - just don't plan to use the scans for magazine front covers! The colour rendition is acceptable but the exposure control is agricultural at best. Better to scan your pictures and Photoshop the scans if you want to make adjustments. Then again, for ease of access once they are digitised, they are probably good enough for most casual purposes. Also bear in mind that dust and flaws on the emulsion leap out at you, so take great care to gently dust before you scan!For the price, the Veho is a pretty reasonable buy. Scan your slides to preserve at least something from your past and to make them easy to flick through on your laptop or tablet but don't throw them away.

Was really unsure about buying this product. I wanted to convert some slides, most over 50 years old to digital and the previous reviews are very conflicting. Here's what I thought. It is extremely easy to use. The quick start instructions supplied are very simple and if you're unsure about anything, there is information online about the scanner on the makers website. Once it's fully charged with the supplied cable, you can use it free of cables or wires. It is extremely light and easy to handle. The charge lasted a whole afternoon's scanning. I had about 500 slides scanned over two afternoon sessions. The SD card needed to store the scans is not supplied. Once the scans are completed, you can either remove the card and put it straight into your computer or use the cable to transfer the images. I also used the cable to watch the converted slides on our TV which was really handy. The images themselves look of very poor quality on the small monitor when you are scanning but once transferred, they appeared much better. I ran all of them through my computers photo editor (very simple version) which improved them greatly and I am really pleased with the results. As I said these are very old slides that were otherwise not going to be seen again so I wasn't looking for perfect but they have exceeded my expectations. In conclusion, if, like me you're looking to salvage family photos, I would 100% recommend this product. As regards the price of the unit, it's quite expensive I suppose, but getting them done professionally is an awful lot more!

This device is worth it's weight in gold. I have converted nearly a thousand negatives of all shapes and sizes to digital copies and I am now relieved I can backup these photos for a lifetime and more. It's important to me to backup memories and keep them forever. My mothers wedding was in the 1970's and i had the negatives so I converted them to digital and they look exactly the same as the printed photos from when they were developed back then. in fact some of them came out better in digital format, but I am sure that is just degradation from time. I highly recommend this device and I even managed to find some extra slides for more modern negatives which fit in this Veho device. worst case scenario if you have negatives that don't fit just wedge card board together and slide them through making sure there is a hole in the middle to capture the negative. Some users buy software to enhance the photos but most of the photos came out fine and I am able to zoom in on the photos quite well. You will always get some negatives that don't turn out as you would expect them to but in most cases they are enough to preserve the memory. I am now asking all my family members to give me their negatives so I can convert them.A cleaning rod is even supplied to clean the window because you will get some dust appearing but its easily removed.Extremely easy to use as a standalone device to take with you in a rucksack and convert photos somewhere else, and then you can connect it straight to the computer and picks up the SD card as a usb simple device and grab the photos. I am just glad i managed to save all my photos from Egypt when i was 12 years old. I have been converting negatives that are over 40 years old. I recommend this to anyone!

Easy enough to use etc but just appalling quality scans. I was really hoping that this was going to be good but it is not. My slides are from 1985 but they are in mint condition. The scans are nothing like the quality of my slides. Main points:1. Grainy pictures.2. Lack of detail.3. Sky is always washed out.4. Every shot I have uploaded was on a sky blue sunny day in Santiago in Chile. It looks nothing like it. Even after going through an image editor.It is going to be too much work for what will be still poor quality scans. Forget trying to print them...the scans are that bad!

nachdem ich nun mehrere tausend Dias digitalisiert habe, kann ich behaupten: Ich bereue diesen Kauf nicht. Sehr gutes Produkt !!!

pas de mode d'emploécran très petit et trop vertical donc inutilisable

Ho acquistato questo prodotto perché ho trovato un sacco di scatole di vecchie diapositive di famiglia. Desideravo digitalizzare questi ricordi e un po' per caso ho scelto questo prodotto, spinta dal fatto che era molto più economico rispetto a tanti altri. Ho scannerizzato migliaia di diapositive in poco tempo, di diverse dimensioni (ci sono tanti carrelli che si adattano al formato della diapositiva). Ho inserito direttamente la schedina di memoria e poi trasferito tutto sul pc. Le foto scannerizzate sono dettagliate e i colori reggono benissimo. Consiglio vivamente

Even though nearly everyone has a camera available to them via their smartphones, that wasn’t always the case. I remember a time when photos were captured on film and had to be developed at the store. It wasn’t always cost-effective and it took a lot of time so I’m glad that the world has moved into a more digital realm, but what do I do to preserve all of those important memories that were once captured on photographic paper? Until now, there haven’t been a large number of options for consumers at home. Thankfully, Veho, an electronics company based out of the UK does now offer a slide and negative scanner called Smartfix.DETAILSThe Smartfix device is a scanner that allows you to convert all your old 135 slides and 135/110/126 negatives into digital images. It’s a standalone scanner with a 2.4″ LCD screen for previewing images. You can transfer your film negatives and slides directly to an SD card from the scanner. The scanner is PC and Mac compatible (viewing only) and supports up to 32GB SDHC/SD cards (not included). The Smartfix is aptly named as it has built-in auto-exposure, color balance, and other image enhancements to make sure images are clear and crisp.The Smartfix is designed to be compact. It measures 5.6 inches x 4.5 inches x 4.7 inches and only weighs 12.8 ounces. The scanner is compatible with both NTSC and PAL video formats.UNBOXINGVeho has classic packaging. Their branding includes black and white colors so their boxes are typically black and white with shades of gray. The front of the Smartfix box has an image of the device along with “Veho” and “Slide & Negative Scanner – SMARTFIX” stamped on it. The name of the product is also printed on the top of the box and the specs along with images of the slide accessories are printed on the sides. The back of the box shows a nice photo of the device in use and the basic details of the scanner. Veho did a really nice job of describing the product on the box. I actually think that it’s summarized better than on their website.When you open the box you will find the scanner nestled in between cardboard crates and the quick start guide, cleaning brush, USB-A to Mini-B USB cable, 3.5mm jack to yellow RCA cable, one (1) 135 slider tray and several negative tray options. The scanner itself has a very nice Tacton rubber touch finish to it. The operational buttons are on the top and the ports are on the back. Even though the device is somewhat compact, I could see it benefitting from a carrying case since there are so many parts to it.USER EXPERIENCEThe first thing you are instructed to do is to make sure the scanner is charged. The Smartfix comes with a rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery which sits inside the battery door found on the bottom of the device. When you plug the scanner into a USB port, it will charge the battery. There is no wall adapter included, but it’s compatible with standard USB wall chargers. If the LED is red, then it is charging and the light will automatically turn off when it’s fully charged. You can operate the scanner while it’s charging if you wish (the LED will turn blue).When you turn on the Smartfix, you will be instructed to insert an SD card if you haven’t already. For testing purposes, I used an 8GB SanDisk SD card. The process is pretty straightforward. You place your selected negatives into the appropriate tray — in my case the 110 negative tray — and select the type of negative you are sending through by pressing the “Type” button on the top of the scanner. A small icon in the bottom lefthand corner of the LCD will change between a slide, 35mm negative, B/W, 110, or 126. Once you have the appropriate size selected, you can slide your negative tray through the scanner. You will have to manually push the tray through the scanning slot. On one side of the tray, there are notches that lock into place on once they are in the scanner. As you push the tray through the scanner you will feel the click of the notches. You will still need to center your image on the LCD before scanning the negative but the notches help prevent you from skipping over an image too quickly.During the course of my testing, I discovered that you cannot save images directly to your computer from the scanner. It’s sort of a bypass option. Here are the different ways you can use the scanner.Save to SD Card: When you scan a negative or slide, you can save that new image directly to the inserted SD card. The image will be saved as a JPEG.View Images on PC: You can view images saved to your SD card when a PC is connected to the scanner via the USB cable. The option for PC > SD Link will appear on the screen before you go to scan. If you select ‘Yes,’ the SD card will appear on your desktop and you can look through the saved images. If you choose this option, you cannot scan other images while you are in this mode.View Images on TV: Veho includes an RCA cable with the scanner so that you can connect it to your television if you wish. Similar to viewing images on a PC, this option will only give you the ability to see what has already been saved. You will use the slideshow option on the scanner and sift through the images on the SD card.The process is pretty easy to get through and as much as I appreciate all the automated tasks that the Smartfix provides, one thing I would have liked to have control over was the quality at which the scanner captures the scanned image. The pictures that I saved were saved as JPG files at 180DPI. I’m not sure if the scanner was programmed this way to keep file sizes low, or if it has to do with the type of media you are scanning, but I thought the quality of the image could be a bit better.The LCD display was actually quite impressive. It shows the scanned negative clearly and gives you a decent idea of what to expect from the saved image. I thought the controls were easy to follow and didn’t have any issues with the buttons capturing my input presses.CONCLUSIONSWhen you have 30-year-old film negatives lying around, you want a way to preserve them digitally. There are some options out there for being able to send them out to be processed, but that can be a nerve-racking experience. When you have irreplaceable memories locked in those pieces of film, you want them to stay safe. Veho has provided a good way of ensuring that you can not only preserve your memories but also keep them close to home.

Did everything I wanted it to do, once I figured out how to use it - but was very short on instructions and the web site it directed you to for more detailed information was non-existent