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Veho VFS-001me 5 Mega pixel slide and negative scanner, USB 2, Vista | 
 enlarge | Brand: Veho
Category: CE
List Price: £99.99
Buy New: £69.49
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 579
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 5.3 x 5.1
MPN: VFS-001me
Model: VFS-001me
UPC: 094922760432
EAN: 0094922760432
ASIN: B000XFTQ5M
Release Date: June 26, 2008
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Stymied August 28, 2008
Four months after purchasing the Veho I still haven't managed to get it working, despite a steady stream of messages to the manufacturers via e-mail. I would phone them, but cannot locate a telephone No., nor an address.
They did send me another CD to download, but it made no difference. I haven't had any response to my latest communication - a grudging one star awarded because the scanner looks neat, but I can't review something I can't use.
Gave up in sheer exasperation... August 27, 2008
Impressed by the reviews I bought it...then wasted an evening and the best part of a Bank Hol weekend trying to get the blessed thing to work. The software just wouldn't load. It should have been compatible - I have a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Un prepared to waste any more time, I sent it back.
Grrr.
Low end quality July 22, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well this isn't expensive, and it shows. The scans are not very good, remind me of shots taken on a disposable film camera and processed by a mail order firm. Colour rendition, contrast and dynamic range are iffy. However, if you only took snapshots in the first place this will do. It will digitise your film and slide collection quickly and easily, just don't expect the images to look like a modern digital camera - they won't. It does come in a smart box and looks quite nice. The optical quality is equivalent to a camera of the same price.
 set up problem with odd solution read this July 6, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Once in to photoimpression I calibrated the scanner as instructed and pressed 'acquire'.The 'LIVE' image was blocks of colour that jumped around .Tried loads of things restart reinstall s/w etc finally just b4 I packed it back to amazon I moved the scanner to a different USB port -actually one on a hub not the front panel of pc. Strangely it suddenly was working fine.Moved it back and 'jackson pollack' mode again. No idea why a hub should solve this usually they cause this sort of prob.
Once running the results are pretty good , dependent on negative quality of course
What you do........
You put negs in holder feed in one at a time take snapshot and then transfer to pc
What you get.....
.On highest resolution 36 bit 4800 dpi (only .TIF extention available - lower res have jpg option too ) BTW the file size for the highest res is reading as 99MB for a 25mm negativein windows They are BIG
The whole process for one slide/neg takes about 5-10 sec.There is a copy button on top of the unit but all the commands are from software and i've never had to use it.
Hope this helps folks
It can be frustrating, but overall it does work (eventually!) May 9, 2008
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
First of all, whenever you read a review saying that it's too slow to capture an image, it's simply because their PC only has old (slow) USB 1.0 ports. If your PC is modern (e.g. approx 3 years old or less) then it will have USB2.0, and it will transfer images VERY quickly and easily. => Do not worry about this!
When I got this, I installed the latest driver (from the veho-uk website) and then scanned in about 3 or 4 negative films. The results were not amazing, but they are perfectly acceptable for my needs. For the money, I was perfectly happy with the results from 35mm *negatives*.
However, then I tried scanning in some 35mm Kodak *slides*, from the mid-1960's. Bright and sunny slides looked perfectly OK. However, anything other than a bright and sunny day looked too dark. My experience in using 'gamma correction' in Paintshop Pro ;-) fixed some of these pictures, but quite a few others were too dark to be used :-(
I then spent WEEKS AND WEEKS going through Google to try to find the solution. Among the various suggestions that I tried, were (a) downgrade to the original driver on the cdrom (b) search the Windows registry for a 'contrast' or 'brightness' setting that I could manually change (c) try 3 different host PCs (d) re-calibrate many many times etc. etc.
Interestingly, I also found that this unit seems to be exactly the same (rebadged) as the Vupoint FS-C1-VP. So I even tried their driver (from their website), which works OK but no better/worse than the Veho one.
On a complete whim I unplugged my Veho VFS-001 from my PC's front USB 2.0 plug... and instead plugged it into a cheap (10) 4 port USB 2.0 hub (also in my same PC), which also had 2 other devices plugged in.
=> Hey presto! It now works OK! Sure, I have to wait a few seconds (approx 5) to wait for the image contrast to appear correctly (otherwise the whites are too white, or the blacks are too black) but it generally works OK for my needs! Hurray!
[I can only guess that the power from my PC's front USB port was either too powerful or not enough power... and somehow this caused the problem???)
It's still not perfect - as one user says, you will find that this 'raw' image is a bit contrasty. I also agree with another user, if you do not click the 'take picture' button at the correct time, then the resulting picture will be too white or too black (he says "if there is a part of the image which contains completely white pixels, then there is no contrast left. I tried to get around this problem by clicking the capture button before the scanner had auto-adjusted the contrast, which was fiddly but partially effective...").
Overall, I now agree with this other user: "If you have slides with very pale faces or lots of white you may have a lot or burned out slides, but otherwise I was happy with the general quality, colours and definition."
It has been a bit painful to get it working OK for me, but now that it does I'm quite happy.
If you are a 'newbie' then you might prefer to go for a different device (or gamble that your PC's USB 2.0 port likes the device!). If you are experienced, and don't mind a gamble, then it's quite a nice solution for a very cheap price.
=> I'm happy, best of luck to everyone else!
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