Pictoscanner… let mum bring to life all those wonderful family photos pictoscanner.com !

Pictoscanner… let mum bring to life all those wonderful family photos www.pictoscanner.com !

It’s different, low-tech, simple to use and a perfect product for lockdown in many ways.
PictoScanner is a simple way to scan old film negatives and slides. It’s a carboard, AA battery-powered backlight that uses a smartphone camera and simple app to scan and digitise negatives and slides. It’s very much a lockdown kind of product: during the last year, many of us have got a bit more tech-savvy and also undertaken projects to organise and declutter our homes. At the same time, we’ve been nostalgic over thoughts of family and friends. This is a way to quickly declutter, digitize, sort and share old and forgotten photos.

How it works
The PictoScanner is fun and can be set up in seconds. The principle is based on a photographer’s light table, the LED backlight diffuses an equal light across the whole negative or 35 mm slide. [Note: it can also be used with a DSLR].

The PictoScanner app turns your smartphone into a scanner. The app will ask what you want to scan (negatives, positive colour or Black & White), the user then positions the camera lens of the phone on the small hole on the top bed of the PictoScanner and takes the picture. The negative or slide is then digitized and can be shared instantly.

The app also has editing tools and filters to modify the frame, exposure, contrast, saturation and temperature of the images.

Key features:
• Made of cardboard and folds nearly flat when not in use (40x110x150mm)
• Assembles in seconds
• Designed to be used with PictoScanner’s free Android or iOS app
• AA battery-powered
• Simple to use and does not require a computer or need to be plugged in

Where to buy: Amazon, priced at £34.63
Download app: Apple AppStore and Google Play
See more and buy at: pictoscanner.com