Hammacher Schlemmer Spotlight: The One Step Photograph and Slide to iPhone Converter

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If you were born in the last decade, digital photography could be the only form picture-taking familiar to you. Though digital cameras have effectively led to the gaining endangerment of film photography, a full century of images recorded to film negatives, photo paper and slides contain too many precious images worth ignoring. Hammacher Schlemmer has added a device to their product catalogue targeted at saving great individual or family moments to one of the world's most popular smartphones, the Apple iPhone.

Called the One Step Photograph and Slide to iPhone Converter, this scanner dedicated for use with a Apple iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S device has the ability to digitally perserve some historically popular methods for storing images. Photoographs 3x5 inch and 4x6 inch sizes, 35mm slides as well as 135 film negatives can be quickly converted to an Apple iPhone attached to the One Step Photograph and Slide to iPhone Converter. Prior to being stored as a JPEG on an Apple iPhone, a user can utilize a free app to adjust attributes such as colour and size of the digital image.

Powered by 4 AA batteries, the One Step Photograph and Slide to iPhone Converter can operate without a computer or the need for an AC power supply.

The One Step Photograph and Slide to iPhone Converter retails in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue and through their on-line store for $59.95 US.

Hammacher Schlemmer Spotlight: Memory Card to DVD Converter

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Flash memory cards are a normal and plentiful resource with the prevalence of portable technology. Now inexpensive for even high capacity SD cards, we can now take more images and high quality video at this day in age than ever. A way to capture large amounts of treasured or important pictures, it is undesirable to keep digital data on flash memory over a long period of time over concerns contents will be lost. It would also be a thrill to be able to share, copy or archive photos through a means everyone can enjoy it.  Hammacher Schlemmer has a solution for storing and sharing images with little fuss.

The size of a slice of bread, The Memory Card to DVD Photo Converter is a disc recorder device that is set-up for quick and easy transfer from a digital camera or camcorder. Using either a blank CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW disc, images can be written onto a new media in minutes. Burning at up to 24X speed for CDs and 8X for larger DVDs, The Memory Card to DVD Photo Converter is operated through interaction with a small LCD screen revealing settings as well as writing progress. Since many times the quantity of photos on a digital camera will far out-weigh the capacity of discs, The Memory Card to DVD Photo Converter is configured to automatically divide images across multiple discs.

Operating separate from a computer or other larger electronic device, The Memory Card to DVD Photo Converter portability is an asset to amateur and even professional photographers. The Memory Card To DVD Photo Converter device can easily fit in a purse, briefcase or duffel bag requiring the user to only needs to find a power source.

The Memory Card to DVD Photo Converter is selling for $199.95 through Hammacher Schlemmer.