Convert film to sd card

can anyone tell me what i need to buy to convert slides and negatives to sc card?

AngieC68,

Welcome to PU Forums.

The short answer is a scanner that will handle film or a copying attachmemt for a camera.

I think you will get more helpful answers if you give more information about how much material you have to convert, what equipment you already have, what you want to do with the pictures once on SD, how much you want to spend etc.

Michael

I understand PC world are selling a black box that scans straight to SD - not sure whether SDHC though. A card is included, a little screen is on the top & you can also link it to your PC if you wish - approx £100. They also do a simpler version for scanning to PC. Sorry but I cannot remember the brand.

Hi Angie - welcome to the forum.

Would this be what you are after?

Welcome Angie, you could also look at this.

Don't expect very good results from those cheap scanners.
If I were ever to go and digitize my slides it will be with a high quality scanner.
I had a cheap one and it was very slow and it took a lot of time in post processing as well.

I've got an Ion scanner that takes negatives or slides and outputs JPGs to an SD card. Ok, it's not professional quality but the results are more than good enough for archiving old family photos, and they look good shown on a big TV too (via the supplied video lead). Scanning takes around two seconds per image and you get a live preview, so you can choose to scan individual frames rather than having to do an entire strip of negatives and then pick after.

I don't usually do much post production beyond dealing with any hairs/dust/whatever that I notice. Only annoying part is finding that some of my most interesting photos (in terms of subject) were obviously taken with a really terrible compact camera!