The Velova™ Memory Scanner

No. Everything happens on the scanner: you load the film, you press the button, and the photo is saved to the memory card. Many of our customers don’t have a computer at all.

With a USB cable, supplied in the box. You plug one end into the scanner and the other into a USB charger: your phone charger will do the job.

One button. The large-print guide in English takes you through it step by step, and our team answers in English, 7 days a week.

35mm slides and 35mm negatives, in colour or black and white: the formats of 99% of the family photos taken between 1960 and 2000.

The scanner only takes 35mm: mounted slides and negatives. That rules out medium format (6 × 6, 6 × 9 and 6 × 4.5), the 110, 126 and 127 formats, 8mm and Super 8 cine film, paper photos and video cassettes. Panoramic shots are 35mm too, but the scanner digitises 24 × 36 mm frames: the whole picture won’t fit. For all of these formats, you’ll need a photo lab.

No, no cutting at all. You open the holder and lay the strip inside, with the little holes along its edge lined up with those on the holder. You close it, then slide the holder into the slot on the right-hand side of the scanner. Your negatives are never cut.

Onto an SD memory card, as JPEGs. To watch them on your TV, you connect the scanner to the TV with the cable supplied. The card itself can be read on a computer, or taken to a photo shop for prints.

That depends on the pack you choose. The Essential pack comes without a card: you’ll need a standard SD card, like the 32 GB card in our Complete and Family packs. The Complete pack comes with that 32 GB card, which holds about 15,000 photos. The Family pack includes two.

The sensor is 2592 × 1944 pixels, which is 5 million real pixels per photo. That’s the honest figure: the “14” or “22 megapixels” you see on this kind of scanner come from software interpolation and add no detail at all. The result is sharp on a TV, on a computer and in a 6 × 4 or 7 × 5 inch print. It isn’t a lab scanner: for a large-format enlargement, go to a professional.

Yes. Up to 7 × 5 inches, the print is perfectly sharp; an 8 × 10 inch print still looks very good in an album or a frame. For anything bigger, go to a photo lab.

About 3 seconds per photo. A box of 100 slides can be digitised in an afternoon, memories and tea breaks included.

None. No heat, no contact with the surface of the picture: your films come out exactly as they went in, and they never leave your living room.

Yes. The automatic correction revives faded colours. A badly damaged film will stay damaged (no scanner works miracles), but the picture will be saved before it’s too late.

No, there’s nothing wrong with your scanner. Older films aren’t always perforated exactly where the ISO standard says they should be, and this small difference sometimes lets a thin strip of the film’s edge show on the photo. Cropping is all it takes to remove it: two seconds on a computer, or at your photo shop if you prefer.

Write to us: our help in English stays with you until your first photo is digitised. And you have 30 days to change your mind.

Free tracked delivery in 7 to 10 working days. You’ll receive a tracking number by email.

The Family pack is made for exactly that: two memory cards, one to keep and one to give away, already filled with your digitised memories.

A 30-day money-back guarantee, no reason needed. You try it at home, at your own pace.

Yes. The scanner’s menu is in English, one of the nine languages available. And your large-print guide in English is emailed with your order.

Yes, in two ways. Either you take out the SD card and read it on the computer. Or you connect the scanner to the computer with the USB cable supplied and choose “USB MSDC” in the menu: the card then shows up as a drive and you copy your photos across.

The negative holder takes a strip of 6 frames, and the slide holder takes 4 slides. You load one after another without changing any settings.