Comments on: VuPoint 35mm Film Scanner to Digitize Old Film and Slides

By: dsmetts

dsmetts — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:44:31 +0000

I am sorry to say that my experience with this copier was less than to be desired. I was so dissatisfied with it that I sent it back. Lost my shipping charges both ways.

By: Carol Michaels

Carol Michaels — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:56:18 +0000

I picked up the FS-C1-VP scanner at a yard sale & it works fairly well on My XP computer but does anyone know is ther is any drivers or software that will enable it to run on the new Win 7 the instruction book says no but someone has probably already found a way

By: William Tytaneck

William Tytaneck — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:28:02 +0000

I had USBports 1 & 2. AfterI connected the scanner to my computer I got a message that I do not have an active USB 2 port. When I got to devive manager I I cannot find a USB 2 port Which showed before. Does the scanner have anything to do with change?

By: Monte G. Basbas

Monte G. Basbas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:19:34 +0000

Cannot use the VuPoint unit because I am told “ERROR LOADING C:\WINDOWS\system32\OVTFBoot.dll” module could not be found. The unit doesn’t work and is therefore useless. Can you help me get that module instAlled in my XP – 2 computer ???? Or give me Return authorization since this would be a “breach of warrantee of merchantability” since the unit cannot do what it was advertized to do.

By: Rjay

Rjay — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:44:56 +0000

I have both their photo scanner and their negative/slide scanner. When this product works it works great – but as can be seen there are challenges….

Some questions people have asked about – where to get updated software (including Vista drivers) go to

http://www.vupointsolutions.com/converters.asp

You can even download the manuals and updates there.

Extra slides/trays are available through Hammacher Schlemmer (and they offer a lifetime guarantee on them)

http://www.hammacher.com/Category/Media-Conversion

Click on the scanner you have and at the bottom of the page will be a link to order extra trays/slides

The Picture scanner is definately easier to use and faster. The negative scanner needs a lot of adjustment to get the picture just right (the software that you download has all the tools for that) and so is much slower than I had hoped.

All in all a great tool – if you can get it working… I have 3 XP computers and only one is happy with the scanners (lets them operate) the other two not so much… so I suspect that there are some software conflicts somewhere.

Good Luck!

By: Sekar

Sekar — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:00:06 +0000

I was about to buy the VuPoint scanner. I thought I will check the reviews. Thanks for the heads up. I will not buy this product.
Sekar

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:14:49 +0000

I just installed the VuPoint Solutions Film and Slide scanner. Using the ArcSoft PotoImpression 6 software, it will not scan. Using Picasa 3 or Photoshop Elements 7, it tries to scan but the image will not stop tiling so it can be captured. I’m about ready to give up and take this back to the store. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rick

By: Chuck Childs

Chuck Childs — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:59:16 +0000

Ihave a VuPoint Fimscanner that seems to have a strape
inside hanging down. The slides are not in vocus when
I tried to transfer them. Can you fix?

Thank you

Chuck

By: George Milder

George Milder — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:47 +0000

I have the VuPoint FS-C1-VP scanner. I think it is a great gadget. The only problem I have is that thr power requirement heats up my computer until it shuts off in self defense. This becomes a pain. Does VuPoint make an attachment for the scanner that will allow the USB port to be used for signal only and allow the unit to be powered externally? If so where can I buy one?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:43:11 +0000

The VU Point scanner is good, but I’d probably look at one of Ion’s scanners. I prefer them, especially the SD one! The VU can sometimes let a bit too much light in which isn’t a complaint I’ve heard of about the Ion ones.

By: Patricia Stanley

Patricia Stanley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:58:51 +0000

The light is too strong on my slide converter. How can it be adjusted? Thank you.

By: Roberta Sullivan

Roberta Sullivan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:43:39 +0000

Is there any place on the internet you can download the software for the VuPoint FS-C1-VP?

By: Mike Valentine

Mike Valentine — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:15:32 +0000

All sites that show this product, neglect to mention whether there are any difficulties using this with Vista. Or are we to assume by now, that all problems with Vista have been found and tweaked out? I have several thousand 35mm film negatives, which I took while living and traveling in Russia, and Eastern Europe, just before I got digital. I’m trying to archive memories, and dump all my old paper prints to save space and my back!
Thanks for your feedback!

By: Walter Kehler

Walter Kehler — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:02:36 +0000

I successfully scanned ~ 1000 negs and slides, with extra effort. Instructions say to allow image to stabilize before click to save. I found I could manipulate both washed out originals by allowing the scanner to fully reduce light on an empty unit and then rapidly inserting the holder to the scan position and watch as the image lightens and click save when it was acceptable. I would insert slides/negs into holder from lightest to darkest to let me do the batch progressively.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:20:08 +0000

Someone gave me one of these for a gift. The drivers do not work on my Vista laptop. I have an old desktop with XP that I’ll have to use I guess. I thought Vista was supposed to be compatible. good ol’ MicroSoft.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:06:52 +0000

i began using my scanner this weekend on 35mm slides. problem 1, not enough memory so i am boosting it up by 1 gig. the second problem is that all of the slides scanned well but when converted to jpeg, look like negatives. what do i have to do to make them “look” like photos?

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By: Will

Will — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:15:22 +0000

I was given a Vupoint slide/film converter for Xmas and have been trying to install it since then. The manual and disc say that it will work on VISTA and the model no is FS-C1-VP-BX2. I have been unable to get ANY even mildly satisfactory results….even trying an earlier post advising to just use it to download to other photo programs.

I have had troubles with several 3rd party software that didn’t update to the vagaries of VISTA,but VUPOINT is the worst: no response to several emails and no call back on their phone #. So am returning unit ASAP.

Discloser: I am 76, bought first computer in 1984 (remember the upgrade to DOS 3.1??) which has given me lots of experience but also I realize I am now behind the curve………..BUT if you have VISTA be very very careful before buying this unit. Perhaps it will work for you but I doubt it.

Consider this verbatim quote from the VISTA instructions page 11…”Do not insert the disk in to (sic) the drive and click Next.”

The synax alone should give anyone some second thoughts, and I’m afraid the same competence level did the actual software

By: mike

mike — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:22:00 +0000

sounds like the vupoint scanner is a bust! i won’t be buying it after reading this list of complaints! thanks, submitters for giving me the head’s up!

By: Shelley Pike

Shelley Pike — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:27:02 +0000

I used the scanner first on XP, then on Vista. On XP, each slide took minutes to download. With Vista, it is instant. However, with slides that have a lot of contrast, there is too much back light; the pic is washed out. Picasa (which can be downloaded free) will import from the scanner as well. But some pics are still washed out. So I assume the problem is with the scanner; wish we could adjust those LED’s. Vupointsolutions.com has downloads available on its website.