SLIDE N SCAN Film and Slide Scanner with Large 5” LCD Screen, Convert Color & B&W 35mm, 126, 110 Negatives & Slides to High Resolution 22MP JPEG Digital Photos

I bought this primarily for scanning slides, over a thousand of them. It's a lot easier to use than others I've had in the past, and does a good enough job with the ability to adjust color balance, brightness etc. Of course you have to remember that the final product will only be as good as the original slide. I also have loads of negatives and had originally planned to scan hard copies of those photos but when I tried a random negative scan I was truly blown away by the vibrancy and quality of both color and black and whites. I've now abandoned my initial plan and gradually working through even more negatives than slides and so far the results are uniformly excellent. And negatives take even less time than slides. No hesitation at all in giving this gadget a great score. I've had a few old pictures scanned professionally and can't now tell the difference - apart from the cost per picture that is!

Easy to use and has allowed us to convert numerous old slides into digital images. Options are limited for image optimisation on the device but once in digital format can easily be exported to software to adjust colour etc. The digital image is obviously dependent on the original slide. Some are a little blurred but many are really good. All are considerably better quality than offered by a high street retailer. For the price I feel this was definitely worth it.

The Kodak Digital Film Scanner is a great option for quickly scanning film and backing up old negatives. It’s incredibly easy to use, with a straightforward interface that makes the whole process fast and hassle-free. Setting it up is simple, and you can scan a lot of negatives in a short amount of time, which is great if you have boxes of old film to digitize. That said, while the scans are decent, they’re not quite as high quality as I would prefer. The resolution is fine for casual viewing and sharing, but if you’re looking for professional-grade detail, you might need a higher-end scanner. Still, for convenience, speed, and general film preservation, it does the job well!

The scanner is easy to use and on the standard setting it provides sufficient resolution from 35mm slides to appear without pixelation on a 15 inch laptop screen. The colour representation is true to the original material. The preview on the screen is like using a 1980’s slide viewer allowing us to explore the family slides inherited from our late parents. The scanner so far has accepted several types of plastic slide mounts as well as the standard Kodak ones.

Bought as a present for my wife who wanted to go through our old 35mm camera negatives and digitizer and save on her computer. So many old fil negatives to trawl through, a well priced scanner, easy to use, only downside it didn't include a 32GB SD/SDHC card which I had to purchase separately. I did buy a Kodak 32GB SDHC from Amazon, so why they didn't include one is beyond me.

The build quality of this scanner is fine, with good quality buttons, and I don't understand all the comments relating to thick slide mounts, I had no trouble. Kodak, Fuji & Agfa were fine, and GePe glass mounts were a bit snug, but the only tight ones were some old Ilford mounts that were 2.7mm thick, but they still went in, just. For some reason, the Gallery function didn't work initially, then started to work OK after about 3 days. I don't know why. RGB colour correction is limited to +/- 2stops, and whilst it's enough to correct most slides, it won't do old ones that have developed a very strong cast. It crops the frame, which is annoying, and don't see any need for it. If you have any slides that are already close cropped, you'll lose a bit of them. However, by far the worst problem is that the contrast is far too high, highlights and shadows that are full of detail on the slide are featureless on the scan, and can't be recovered by editing afterwards. I didn't expect professional quality, but this makes the scanner all but unusable for a large number of slides.

Have cases of slides used to view on big screen as a child. Been sat in garage many yrs & was worrying would fade. Thought about getting one of these for long time then in black Friday sale I got one. Wow. Yes it takes time manually feeding slides through but great piece of kit. Am doing small amt regularly & will take a while but to have photos safe on sd card & on computer I know they're safe. Can be shown on tv too. Only thing to point out is I was at first trying a m8cro sd in adapter & would not scan to sd card. It needs full size sd card no more than 32gb. Worked straight away.. fab

I bought this scanner to digitise 35mm colour negatives - this is all I have used it for, please bear this in mind when reading my review. Initially I bought a DIGITNOW scanner that was considerably cheaper - this arrived in a less than good condition and generally I was unimpressed so I returned it and decided to splash out on the Kodak. Because the Kodak must be used with a memory card it ended up costing considerably more but I am very pleased with the results and have no regrets. Having scanned hundreds of negatives, these are the plus points as I see them: > Simple to use > Produces good results > Has an excellent 5" screen - essential if you wish to vet negatives before saving (many competitors have a tiny screen) My criticisms are as follows: > Build quality is good but given the price it is surprisingly lightweight and rather plasticky > All images must be saved via a memory card - other makes will allow direct saving to a PC. In use (and having got into a routine), this was not the problem I had anticipated before hand > Whilst navigation is largely easy, when you are in gallery mode with a number of images saved then moving around the images is rather tedious Observations: > The cradle for the negatives does allow the negatives to move about - you just need to be aware of this. That said, it does mean that you can change strips with relative ease (you do not need to remove the cradle each time) > The wand supplied to clean the lens and backlight is utterly useless and I use an air duster with tube attached. It is necessary to remove the cradle then the tube can be placed in the aperture > I had problems getting the cradle in the first time, there seemed to be considerable resistance. However, guided by other users I pushed it very hard and it located; since then it has been fine > There are basic adjustments for brightness and colour and image resolution may be altered from 14M to 22M. I operate the scanner on the higher setting (22 megapixels) seeing no point in doing otherwise. In terms of brightness and colour, never once have I found it necessary to adjust these (it can be done more effectively on a computer) Other than points mentioned above there have been no issues and I would highly recommend this scanner albeit that given the price, 4 stars seems fair rating.

great product i can now get old photos from negatives

Me está siendo muy útil para recuperar imágenes de hace 60 años que se encuentran en diapositivas de distintos tamaños. Es fácil de utilizar y el resultado es muy bueno sin perder de vista algunas cuestiones: - Sus 22 megapíxels obtienen todo lo que pueden de una diapositiva que como máximo medirá 3,5x2,3 cm, por lo que no podemos compararlo con los 22 Mpx de una cámara que los captura de todo lo que esté al alcance de su objetivo. - En ese sentido, al igual que la lente de una cámara ha de estar limpia para sacarle todo el partido, la diapositiva o el negativo han de encontrarse en muy buena condición para obtener todo lo que se pueda de ellos. Algunas de las mías están bastante mal y los milagros no existen aquí. - Para mejorar los resultados y subsanar las deficiencias de los negativos o diapositivas hay que utilizar un programa de procesado como es el caso de Photoshop. Si no lo manejas mucho, sólo con ponerle los niveles, el brillo y la saturación en automático ya ganan mucho y con el tampón de clonar se arreglan las posibles imperfecciones que tengan los originales. - Y, finalmente, hay que tener en cuenta que estas diapositivas o negativos se obtuvieron con cámaras que no guardaban tanta información de la imagen obtenida como las actuales. Estaban pensadas para imprimirlas posteriormente en papel de un tamaño normal, digamos 10x15 o mostrarlas con un carrusel de diapositivas. Ahora estamos pretendiendo una resolución mayor en la pantalla de un ordenador por lo que probablemente nos encontraremos con algunas imágenes que nos parecen (y posiblemente lo sean) un poco borrosas. No considero que sea culpa del escáner para nada. La calidad del aparato es muy buena y la transferencia de las imágenes al ordenador es sencilla. No se puede pedir más. Es un dispositivo que recomiendo sin dudarlo.

Lo adquirí con la idea de convertir mis viejos negativos de fotografías pero no con muchas expectativas. Pero al recibirlo y probarlo comprobé que tiene una pantalla de buena visión y botones intuitivos para realizar las acciones que uno desee, al probar con mis primeros negativos, me sorprendió la facilidad de su manejo y rapidez con la que convierte mis negativos a una imagen digital de muy buena calidad. Muy satisfecho con este escáner y su funcionamiento.

Easy to use and good fun preserving old photos.

O scanner é um produto doméstico mas funciona muito bem para recuperar aqueles negativos (ou slides) antigos. Não esperem grandes ajustes de cor mas, em compensação é muito prático.