So the other Day I stopped by walmart (sorry MHLady, I know you are very anti Walmart) to pick up a couple of things, and while perusing the electronics area I saw they had a new device. It is a VuPoint Slide/Film Scanner. Now mind you it is not professional scanning equipment. But as long as your negative is in descent shape you can scan in your old photographs. Personally I like playing with pictures using Paint.net an awesome program for the price!!! (as it is free). However, I do think scanning in all those pictures will be a bit time consuming, but in the end I will have a soft copy of pictures broadening how many photos I have to work with, and what I can do with these old pictures.

Not just MHLady. I've been Wal-Mart free for 3 years, 4 months now! Woohoo!!!!

I have been slowly using my scanner to scan in my old pre-digital photos. I have printed a few out on photo paper and they look very nice. Is this gadget supposed to do a better job?

Not sure, Maybe later today when I get home I will regular scan a piece of filmstrip. And than compare them. Maybe I will post them and let others decide.

I don't mean about scanning negatives (I assume that's what you mean by filmstrip?). In many cases, I don't even have the negatives anymore. So I'm scanning in the photos themselves and get print quality prints from them. Well...at least the same quality of print as the original print, anyway.

So I'm curious what the advantage is of scanning negatives vs. scanning the photos themselves.

I'll be curious to hear more about this gadget.

Well I know that in my house a negative is likely to be in better condition than the actual photo due to the fact that most of the negatives are in sleeves. Plus if you happened not to make duplicates of a photo and gave it away, you still have the negative. I also understand not having negatives, but you can also use it for slides. How else would you get a slide from 30 + years ago on your computer? Unless you took it to a professional.

Oh and btw the device is sold at more than just walmart. Looks like target has or had it too. And as always there is purchasing online.

Online, let someone drive.

Oh, I don't have slides. I've just lost quite a few negatives.

I figured you could buy it elsewhere, and I would, but I'm just curious to hear how it works for ya. It might be worth getting for pictures I still have negatives for if the prints are better than prints from scanned photos.

does your mother have slides? I think my parents have some slides that were passed down to them. So I figure it may be a good way to backup this stuff.

What is the product model, number & manufacturer. My dad has a ton of slides from the old days. Is it easy to use?