Nope, no slides. Photos. Very few negatives. I don't think my mom has any negatives. Mr. Funky's parents don't have slides either. But my mom does have a lot of home movies that I really want to get transferred to digital before they degrade. Heck, considering they're from my childhood, they're getting really old now.

Well mine says it is the 21c Film and Slide Digital Converter model wm-fc-vp. And yes I think it is fairly easy to use.

There's a lot more information on the negative than on a finished print--the print-making process involves a lot of decisions on the part of the print-maker, including things like how long the photo paper is exposed and whether filters are used to adjust color, contrast and so on. By going to the negative instead of scanning a print you're giving yourself a lot more source material to work with.

Yeah, I took photography and loved the development more than the picture-taking.

I guess what I'm wondering is if the gadget is worth it considering I don't have negatives for all our old photos anymore. I would love to see an example of what a photo looks like scanned and what a photo from the scanned negative looks like. So, Amber, if you want to share something like that, I'd appreciate it.

It appears it is for slides and negatives.

We got a canon scanner/printer for scanning in old photos.
There is a service I saw, online, where you ship them shoeboxes of photos/negatives, and you get CDs back (oh, and the originals) of very high-resolution digitals. Can't remember the name of it, but it was pretty reasonable if you have a lot of precious stuff.

I've started scanning some baby pictures. Wow, I was cute!

This is where someone replies and says, 'All babies are cute!', right?

Nah, they ain't.

I have a friend who's last two babies... er, nevermind...

lmao it is probably best you did not finish your sentence there. But I would have said this is where someone replies with "what happened?" (meaing you grew up) lol I mean you might have been a cute baby.... but now your are.... Just kidding. Some babies are cuter than others, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Now don't get me wrong I think my kid is super cute (and I guess I might be biased on that) But I have also thought other babies were cuter than my kid too LOL (so maybe not so biased anymore?). My son could have been a cute gerber baby as he didn't really have any hair until he turned 2, and his teecth came in later than most (and a lot of people told me that they thought he could be a model).

What happened? Hmm, I grew up and became GORGEOUS, that's what

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, you shoulda seen MHLady last night in her fancy skirt. Va-va-va-voom!