The obsession with digital photography has left many of us with piles of old 35mm slides and negatives.

What to do with them? You could have the negatives developed into photos professionally, but that may turn out to be an expensive task. Another option is to transfer them to a digital format at home.

It sounds complicated, but it’s something everybody can do themselves with the Veho VFS-004 Negative and Slide scanner.

This clever kit allows you to scan 35mm negatives and slides in full colour using a Windows PC. Just place slides or negatives in the bundled trays, insert them in the scanner, press a button and they’ll be uploaded to your PC.

Once in a digital format your negatives have a new lease of life. You can print them out at home for display, copy them to a digital photo frame or upload the pictures to an online photo album.

The images can be edited in any photo editing tool, such as the free PhotoImpressions software included in the package.

The VFS-004 Deluxe couldn’t be easier to use, and it includes everything you need to get started. It’s also light and portable, and powered entirely by USB2,  so you can easily take it round to the grandparents house and scan their photos too.

Features:

• Scan slides and film negatives
• One touch scanning
• High resolution 5MP CMOS lens
• Auto focus and back light exposure
• Multi-directional insert tray
• 1x slide tray (3 slides per tray)
• 1x negative tray (6 negatives per tray)
• PhotoImpressions 6.0 software
• Powered by USB port, no external PSU required
• USB2 connection
• Windows XP or Windows Vista compatible