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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: £64.99
You Save: £35.00 (35%)
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 585
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 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Rock bottom quality July 22, 2008
PG Williams (Harpenden)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well this isn't expensive, and it shows. The scans are about as poor as possible, remind me of shots taken on a disposable film camera and processed by a cheap mail order firm. Colour rendition, contrast and dynamic range are dreadful. Very disappointing as 70 can get a quality flat bed scanner from a high end manufacturer. Veho must be laughing all the way to the bank. About the worst photographic purchase I've ever made, and as has been said, once you've tried it, it's used, tough luck.
 set up problem with odd solution read this July 6, 2008
pcd (Gravesend, Kent United Kingdom)
6 out of 6 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
R. Collins (Bucks, UK)
11 out of 11 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!
avoid at all costs May 9, 2008
Formula (uk)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Looking at the way the instrutions are written you can tell that they have been done in such a way as to try to solve lots of problems that the makers have had in the past. Finally got it to work and was not please with the results, really awful results and takes so long to scan nothing like the time the makers say.
This really should of been so simple to set up and it wasnt. you have been warned,buy at your peril
Very disappointing April 18, 2008
sharpknives (Leicestershire)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was encouraged by the positive reviews on this product to buy. However whilst the software installed without any problems I was unable to download any images from the scanner - "fail to get image data". I contacted Veho UK and they just sent me an FAQ list, non of which was helpful. So I have returned the unit to Amazon and will choose an alternative as soon as I get my refund!
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