Imagelab Has a Scanner For Netbooks and Non-Computer Users Alike

Everybody enjoys pouring over photographs from the past and even more they love sharing them. Digital cameras have made that a snap compared the negative and print days.

If you have been a Shuttebug for a while you are going to have a lot of favorites sitting on slides and negative waiting to join their digital cousins. I have wrote about film scanners in the past, but Imagelab has a scanner that is perfect for Netbook users and people without a computer.

The Imagelab FS5CO5 is a 5 megapixel slide and film scanner taken has it up a notch. The FS5CO5 features a LCD screen to view the images and a SD card slot to save the images directly to. Once the photographs are captured the card can be put into a Netbook, laptop, computer, the kiosk at your favorite photo lab or even send to an online photo finisher.

The Imagelab unit uses a built-in digital signal processor (DSP) to accomplish the scanning and recording. Other entry level scanners you the central processing unit (CPU) and slowing your computer down while scanning is in progress.

The unit is nice, compact and portable with an intuitive operation workflow that anyone can master with little effort. It does not a have all the features of film scanners in the $1,000+ range, but it does deliver excellent result. Photographs scanned by the Imagelab be enlarged up to a 16 X 20 with little loss in image quality for under $100.