KODAK SLIDE N SCAN Film and Slide Scanner with Large 5” LCD Screen, Convert Color & B&W Negatives & Slides 35mm, 126, 110 Film 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!

This is not my first stand-alone scanner but it is certainly the best I have purchased. Now being used by a former student of mine to scan in excess of 10,000 slides for me. Excellent quality, very pleased. But the delivery service used was appalling. They said they had ‘handed to resident’. utter rubbish, No-one was in the house at the time. no, just left on the door step. Come on Amazon. All these years of excellent service and now it has dropped to this…

I’ve tried several ways of scanning slides before. But it was always a slow laborious process. With mixed results. This scanners design made it a lot easier.
The slide adapter is a tray the runs through the middle of the device. You clip it into place, and then feed the slides through the tray by hand. Allowing continuous feeding of hundreds of slides. At any time you only have 3 slides in the tray. Vertical alignment is fixed. You use the previous and next slide to push the one you are scanning. To center it in the screen. This manual positioning is acceptable, but I would have preferred a fully automatic solution. Once you have aligned the slide you press a button to take a photo of it. This is fast and efficient. Takes a couple of seconds per slide. Some color balancing controls are provided but I just used the defaults. I did try the adjustments but it didn’t improve the output. I scanned 3000 slides in a week. Didn’t give me time to fiddle with settings. Slides are not square. If you have portrait images, you have to scan them in landscape, or it chops the top and bottom off. Thickness of the slide can be an issue. Kodachrome and Ektachrome cardboard and plastic slides are thin, but I had some really chunky plastic slides. These wouldn’t slide through the tray. I had to remove the tray, clamp the slide in the center of it, and then reinsert the tray. It worked for the odd slide but I wouldn’t want to scan a box of them. The majority of the slides worked fine. Some cardboard Kodachrome slides from the 70s were a little oversize, making them hard to push through. Picture quality is good enough. Speed of operation is more important to me. You don’t need to be connected to a computer while you are scanning. Just need a USB power socket. The cleaning brush supplied with the scanner is useless. I used a puffer brush to blow dust and debris off the slides before feeding them into the scanner.
Im happy with the results so far.

I found some old negatives in the loft, but I had got rid of my old scanner years ago, so I looked on Amazon & bought this one. I am so impressed at how easy it is to use, and the quality & resolution of the pictures. What I like about it:
1) You don’t need a computer to scan photos, but you can use a computer if you want.
2) You can set the year, month, and day for the photo before you scan it, and the information is saved with the scanned image.
3) You tell the device what you’re scanning (B&W negatives, colour negatives or colour slides) and you see an instant positive image on the high resolution screen as you feed them through.
4) Scanning is simply done with the press of a button and only takes a couple of seconds for each photo.
5) You can put a memory card into the device & it will write straight to that, (up to 32GB SD card).
6) It doesn’t require batteries, it runs off a USB 5V 2A power supply. (Not included).
7) The pictures are brilliant and very high resolution.
What I don’t like about it:
1) It’s so good that I’ll have to scan all of my old photos again!!

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 which i used to digitise some old 35mm negatives.

To setup machine, first insert SD card into Kodac Slide N Scan. Then insert correct carrier into machine.
Now all you have to do is insert the negative strip into now correct size slot in machine. When photo lined up on built in screen or tv (using hdmi lead) press the big button. This is when the Kodac Slide N Scan takes a photo of the negative, adjust the colours to a positive image, and saves it to the inserted SD card.

Repeat moving negative strip or inserting next strip, pressing the big button each time you want to save an image.

You can also use this device to just view the negatives (just do’nt press the big button).

Although this is a good machine, if you have old negatives they may have degraded over time and look bad, so you may need to try and restore them using photo editing software afterwards.

Overall I am glad i bought the Kodak Slide N Scan. All my negatives have now been stored digitally and will no longer degrade.

Works well but feel I could have got same results from much cheaper makes.
Looks good but that’s not what I bought it for!

Have battled with three machines before this one and by far the easiest, the clearest, the simplest, with no ‘faff’ and ‘no hassle’, after a therapeutic weekend of digitising over a 1000 slides, has been this one.

Became a simple ‘push – click – next’ with very little need to adjust anything.

This was bought to replace the old slide scanner we had. The quality difference between the old and new is amazing. It is easy to use and we’ve had a lot of fun and relived happy memories converting our slides. A good quality product for the price. It came well packaged and within the date range specified. Very happy with the purchase.

Very easy to get going, and to load the slides or negatives. The way it saves it onto the SD card (not included) then uploads to your computer via the touch of a button is very convenient. The unit is powered via USB by the way – another convenience. Overall I’m really pleased with this purchase.

Easy to use and copies really good. Hundreds of slides from the seventies transfered to my laptop within a few hours. Highly recommended and well worth the money.

I purchased this as when clearing out my mums home of 50 odd years we found loads of old photo film and slides. I did a lot of research to find a viewer but then discovered this little unit can not only allow you to view them but also creates a digital copy to save onto a computer which I thought is fantastic as it means they will be safe for years to come and also for other generations of our family. The item is really simple and easy to use the bit that I love is we hooked it up to our large TV whilst saving the photos which meant we could reminisce about old times and enjoy the evening looking at slides and saving them at the same time. It is a great bit of kit and allows you to save film or slides from years ago. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it!

Superb product for transposing 35mm negatives to photos that can be stored or printed. Easy to use and gives excellent colour balance.

I had been looking for a slide / negative scanner to replace a Plustek OpticFilm 7300 which had stopped working. I had a large number of slides and negatives that I needed to scan. After much research this seemed like an option worth trying.
Unlike the Plustek, no software was needed, just plug and play. Files are stored on an SD card (not provided), so I had to buy a card reader as well. However, I didn’t find this to be too much of an inconvenience.
The adapters provided were flimsy and awkward – it took a few attempts to work how these fitted together as this is not made clear in the manual. Scanning negatives requires you to insert the strip into the adapter and then manually push it through to change frames. Not at all easy.
Fortunately I had retained the slide adapter from the Plustek scanner which were much better and enabled me to scan four slides at a time (rather than one slide at a time with the Kodak adapter).
The scan quality of slides is very good, but the scans from negatives leaves a lot to be desired.
Overall I was pleased with the scanner, but am disappointed that negative scanning is so poor.

Excellent vfm.
Very easy to use and has a large viewing screen.

It is easy to use
Take small time to learn to fix is film is to dark
But it is very good for what i was doing

Only one bad was i also had film who was 60×60 mm ,60x90mm

Ther was an issue with delivery but the supplier could not have been more helpful to ensure that I was kept informed and that the unit eventually reached me. It is simple to operate and for me does an absolutely superb job at a very reasonable price. I probably have over 5,000 slides covereing sixty years to go through and this little machine runs through very quickly and very efficiently. A simple mechansim wherby one slide pushes another through works well. Of course, it would be good to have it automated but at a much higher price. Once the copies have been uploaded to my computer, I can edit them further and then file them away. As far as I am concerned this scanner is excellent value for money and I wish I had bought it many years ago.

Great piece of kit. Easy to use. Viewing and storing pictures not seen for years.

Only used on 35mm negatives
The quality of the digital images were very good it was relatively easy to use but it can be a bit fiddly with shorter pieces of negatives
A bit on the expensive side

I felt it was simple to use and very effective. Slides were a breeze to scan, but you had to be a little more careful when feeding films through. It was simple to upload scans to my computer. Quality was good and it was a fast way of scanning.

It only takes a few minutes to become familiar with this scanner. Images are converted from slide to digital in one or two seconds of pressing the appropriate button. However, a few more seconds are eaten up ensuring that your slides are dust-free before they are inserted (as you would with other scanners). Adjustments for over/under exposure can be made with the scanner, but I found it more effective to do this with my computer’s photo software. After all, there’s a good chance that you might want to do some cropping, adjust colour balance, add titles etc, so the exposure can be dealt with at the same time.
Knowing what I now know, I would still choose to buy this scanner. I doubt that it can currently be bettered by any other scanner in the same price range.

Got this gizmo to scan/digitise old negatives and slides in different formats. Does what it says on the tin and I have already added a few hundred pics to my PC and categorised on my PC. Some well forgotten memories recreated. Would recommend

Simple and quick to use.
Everything required is included.
Good adjustments for light and colour.
Copied 100’s of slides and happy with the results. This would have costed 500 a few years ago to get this level of quality.

Whilst I am very pleased overall I think the chariot that hold the slides and negatives could have been easier to engage with the machine

This is a great product which produces really high quality scans of slides. The only downside I have discovered, as others have mentioned, is you cannot date pictures before 01/01/1980. Other than this, it is very easy to use.

I bought this as a replacement for a cheaper scanner I bought a couple of weeks previously that didn’t live up to expectations and am so glad I did. The scan quality from my 135 slides is superb and way superior to the blocky results from my previous one. No regrets buying this. I have nothing negative to say about it and would definitely recommend.

I bought this to replace an older scanner which operated at 10 megapixels. This one operates at a maximum of 22 megapixels and the difference is phenomenal, a great buy and well worth the money.