Kodak Slide And Scan Digital Film Scanner 7 Inches Max

Kodak Slide And Scan Digital Film Scanner 7 Inches Max – Large 7 Inches LCD Screen, Convert Color and B and W Negatives and Slides 35 mm, High Resolution 22 MP JPEGs


aaaaaaaaaa

Specs & Details

  • Compatible with 50mm slides [135, 110, 126], color negative films [135, 110, 126] and b&w negative films [135, 110, 126]
  • Interface: USB 2.0
  • Image sensor: 14-megapixel CMOS
  • Resolution: 14MP/22MP (interpolation)
  • Power: from computer USB port, 5V/1A power adapter (not included), power bank
  • Dimensions: 4.41” d x 6.69” w x 4.45” h
  • Weight: 16.9 oz.
  • Please note you must have an SD card to operate this unit. it is NOT Included
  • Please note a HDMI Cable is NOT Included – It can be purchased separately



Weight: 789 g
Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.55 x 5.25 cm; 789.25 Grams
Brand: KODAK
Model: RODFS70
Colour: Black
Batteries Included: No
Manufacture: Kodak
Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.55 x 5.25 cm; 789.25 Grams

39 Responses

  1. Joel Patel says:

     Canada

    I was unsure whether this scanner would be suitable for scanning the negatives and slides that I have. It’s very easy to use and I am very pleased with the quality of the scans that it produces. I’ve scanned about 1,000 slides and negatives so far. Most were colour negatives but I have also scanned b&w negatives as well as slides. I’ve scanned 135 and 126 formats. It’s extremely easy to upload the files to my pc with the usb cable.

  2. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 18 From Our UsersI spent my entire career working in a camera store and always had access to the latest equipment. That also meant I took a lot of photographs. In the late 70s and early early 80s I was mostly using slides. Throughout the years I back burned them as digital came along. This Christmas I decided to scan the slides so I can hand them over to my daughters. 10 years ago a slide scanner was absolutely out of reach for average consumers when it came to the cost. They were bulky, very finicky, and the took forever to scan each slide. This scanner takes less than five seconds to scan each one. It also does negative films if you no loner thave the origianl photo. Scanning to a jpeg file makes it very easy to file permanently in a cloud, and also to upload to a photo printing service.
    I’m extremely impressed with the ability of the unit to do auto color and light corrections. If it doesn’t do as well, as you hoped, you can manually go in also and adjust brightness, color and contrast. The images is shown in my review are from 1978. The originals didn’t look nearly as vibrant as the ones that came out in the scanner.
    The only thing I don’t like is, although the slides load easily, and are for the most part automatic, (although manual), I do not like the way the loader is in the back. The screen is large, which is wonderful, but you have to look around the back to get each slide in. When scanning thousands of slides, that can really take a toll on your back as you reach around to get into the backside of the loader. I suppose, if I would’ve turned it sideways that would help. But I wanted to see the images front to check or adjust any color or light issues. Also to be sure that they were fully in the scanner area.
    For the cost, I don’t think you can do better. It’s just too simple to use and very versatile. I would recommend as a great gift for your family photographer to get the old slides and negatives into the cloud onr on a SD card. Or if you’re the photographer, you will be pleasntly surprised at the quality and want to put thi on you wish list.

    Impressive quality and easy to use

  3. Anonymous says:

     United States

    I was able to scan several thousand slides in a reasonable amount of time. The results were very good. I did need to watch for dust on both the slides and the copier screen. They give you a dusting pad which worked well. But I would not use this for professional quality work.

  4. Anonymous says:

     Spai

    Primero quiero agradecer a todos los colegas que a travs de este medio han contestado a mi pregunta: Gracias. Despus quiero decir que para lo que tengo que hacer, este escaner es suficiente por sus caractersticas y por la relacin calidad precio, ya que adems tiene la opcin de positivar negativos, en color y en blanco y negro. Nada ms. Gracias de nuevo.

  5. Anonymous says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Handy little machine, scanned approximately 2000 negatives and slides.
    Easy to use.
    Great return on investment…

  6. Val0175ttnu says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Very easy to use and good image quality film scanner, once you learn how to use it… does not have built-in dust remover so keep that in mind and order one of those rechargeable dust blowers and some 32GB SDHC memory cards too.

  7. Danny van Leeuwen says:

     France

    Appareil trs pratique pour numriser les diapos et les anciens films.
    Pratique d’utilisation. Certaines diapos en plastique un peu pais forcent lgrement, mais sinon tout va bien. Il fait le job.
    Bon rapport qualit prix.

  8. CatalinMennell says:

     United States

    This slide scanner does a very quick job of producing pretty good scans. They aren’t the highest resolution, but they are pretty good. And the larger screen that this one has is very helpful.

  9. Rob Hunter says:

     Italy

    Semplicissimo da usare ed efficiente. In post produzione diventa tutto pi semplice. Raccomandato.

  10. EmmettReed says:

     Canada

    This unit is so easy and quick. It enables you to digitize a slide about every five seconds. Other digitizers require the slide to be placed into a holder that holds about four slides. This one does not, which really speeds up the process. Couldn’t be easier.

  11. The Running Bug says:

     United States

    I really liked the ease of use. However, I was a little disappointed in color restoration.

  12. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 8 From Our UsersThe device is pretty easy to use. I used it to put 35 mm slides on my computer. When you go into “film type”, it gives you options of 50mm slide, color or B&W negative. If you choose the “slide”, a tip for 35mm slides is to choose the “126mm film”. (You have a choice of 135,126 or 110mm); this reduces the size of the saved file by about 20% by not including the unexposed area around the slide. (You can also reduce the size of the file by reducing the saved size as 14 M rather than 22M unless you really need that extra detail).

    The editing capabilities are minimal- brightness or red/green/blue. But you can use a computer editor to do more.

    Scanning the slide is simple – Align the slide in the viewer and push one button; you’ll see an hourglass appear. It only takes 1-2 seconds to scan. Image quality is good.

    My beef with this device is there is no way to scan directly to your computer. The scan you create goes to an SD card (not included) you place in the scanner. You then have to upload the images from the card to your computer (which is easy enough through the “USB upload” link). I was scanning individual boxes of slides so, to keep them separate, I had to scan to the card, upload from the card to my computer, then clear the card so I wouldn’t mix different batches of slides. I found this unnecessarily cumbersome. There is also no way to direct your uploaded scans to a specific folder on your computer. It uploads to an all purpose “picture” folder and then you can distribute it as you like. To greatly improve this scanner, you should be able to download directly to your computer and, preferably to a specific folder. It shouldn’t be that difficult to create an interface that does this. That said, it’s easy to use and the quality of the images is good.

    I thought the image scanned would take up the entire 7″ screen. It doesn’t – only about 1/4th (at last for 35 mm slides) so don’t go with the cheaper 5″ screen. It’s hard to make out any but the grossest detail.

  13. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 6 From Our UsersThe wife and I scanned 4000 plus slides with this little scanner this winter. I must admit I did not expect much because the cost was half of its single slide competitors. I know it does not use Silverfast software, but that is a trade off, especially because of the learning curve involved with Silverfast. If your slides are in pretty good shape i.e. stored in a cool dark place to slow the aging process then this little scanner will do the job. What it will not do is make a bad 35mm slide good. Even Silverfast struggles with this. Overall I was impressed. I am going to try this on some old film negatives just for grins to see what it does.

  14. Anonymous says:

     Spai

    Me gusta el fcil manejo y tenerlo todo bien guardado. La calidad por el precio es aceptable

  15. girlgonegeek says:

     Australia

    Have started using it and no problems so far, what would be useful is a light box to presort the slides first and only scan the ones that you want to save, apart from that all good with this product.

  16. Anonymous says:

     Canada

    Golden Review Award: 2 From Our UsersThe only limit is the quality of the slides themselves. I got this for my wife who inherited a literal ton of old family photos, slides and negatives from 50-60 years ago. We originally had the HP G3110, which was also the best solution up until a few years ago when they stopped officially releasing drivers and never released a scanner with slide/negative functionalities since. This kodak unit is standalone and makes short work of my wife’s boxes of slides (and although have’nt tried yet, suspect all the negative scans will be just as fast and easy) while resulting in the best quality possible. I searched for ages to make sure we bought the best solution and am happy with this device. All that and its tiny and since its standalone you can use it where your storage is instead of bringing the storage to the device. Do your scanning buried in the corner of your spare room surrounded by boxes of memories, or at the kitchen table, its so small and unassuming that it really doesn’t matter where you are or how much space you have. If you’re on the fence, take it from me, its worth it.

  17. AnnisStone says:

     United Kingdom

    simple to use and does the job it just works

  18. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 7 From Our UsersBought the Slide N Scan to replace older Kodak Scanza mainly to get the larger screen. I didn’t expect to lose functionality, but the Slide N Scan lacks the rotate and flip functions of the Scanza. A portrait-format slide can be physically rotated 90deg before scan, but this results in severe vertical cropping and loss of resolution — and of course this is impossible for negative filmstrips. The best work-around (if you have editing software) is to scan all your slides landscape-format and then rotate to portrait-format in your software. Of course, this kinda makes the “use Slide N Scan as a picture frame” advertising silly since all your portraits will be shown on their sides. But, it does give you the best results for portrait-format slides, and you gotta use this approach for negative strips anyhow.
    The third photo is a screenshot of the edit-software-rotated image beside the scanned image of the same slide physically rotated before scan, showing the severe vertical cropping when you physically rotate the slide. The black “theater curtains” due to the slide orientation in the scanner represent wasted pixels reducing resolution. The first two photos show this data loss when physically rotating the slide before scan (2nd photo) compared to rotating in editing software (1st photo).
    Now (I wish), this is where someone points out that Slide N Scan actually does have rotate, etc, and I just didn’t find them!

    Edited 2023-01-15. The photos I attached somehow got rearranged after I submitted the review. Unless they get rearranged again when I submit this edit, they appear as follows: Left is the scan of the physically rotated slide (showing the sky washed out). Middle is the screenshot showing both scans. Right is the scan rotated by edit software (the sky not washed out).

    Note to whoever censors this review: please leave the photos as they now are!

    Missing rotate and flip image functions

  19. BernardBumgarne says:

     United Kingdom

    I have nearly 1000 slides of where I grew up in the US in the fifties.I’m recuperating after a leg operation so will start scanning them when I’m more mobile

  20. Anonymous says:

     United States

    My great grandfather, Henry E. Vanderhoef would be just a little disappointed in this. Kodak has a reputation, or had. This is easy to use but several slides from the ’30s, exposed by the roll coating president of Kodak himself and holder of many patents regarding film processing, came out rather heavy on the contrast. This scanner allows for brightness and RGB adjustments, I have not found contrast adjustments yet. This scanner is for quick, easy and not so concerning scans. My slides are exquisite, the scans not so much. I will be looking for a much better scanner for archiving the family photos, I have several thousand to process…

  21. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Easy to use. My old 110 and 35mm negatives are brought to life instantly. Minor changes to brightness and color (RGB separately) are possible. No cropping.

    HDMI outlet is nice, but my images are a little pixelated/grainy when shown on the giant TV. I think this is not a problem, but rather just how it is.

    Images can be scanned/saved in either 14M or 22M (megapixels).

    The screen is not a touch screen, so all functions are done using buttons on the device.

    I lost two of the three film adapters and Kodak replaced for me at no charge.

    It does slides also, but I have not tried. I do not have an opinion yet as to depth of field (warped film) or whether the final resolution of images is wonderful or just OK.

    You scan and save to the SD card you get separately. You do not scan to your computer. The usb port on the box is for power, not data transfer.

    Regardless, what I have seen so far makes me glad I saved all my old negatives. I will be able to scan, save, and distribute to family and friends with ease.

    If you ever wondered what to do with your old negatives, this is a good way to dealwith them.

    I did get a Sandisk 32GB SD card/chip, — which will hold a lot of images.

    In all, I highly recommend this little guy. While it is not perfect, the little things I don’t like are just quibbles. For the money, it is a great way to digitize old film based images. WAY better than scanning the paper prints – which is what I have been doing.

  22. Anonymous says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Very good product. Great value for the money. Makes it relatively easy to scan all those old Kodak negatives and slides. So much faster than a flat bed scanner that has backlighting to scan negatives and slides. My Kodak moments are coming back. I’m sure that this product is NOT made by OG Kodak, but by a licensee.

  23. BVVJaninawbf says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    My mother’s uncle was a great photographer, but rather than make paper prints of his pictures, he saved them all as slides. We have a little viewer, but it’s a pain in the ass to enjoy the old photos as a group if you have to pass a viewer back and forth. This Slide N Scan made fast work of converting almost 200 images (from the 1950s and 1960s). All told, it took me about one hour.

    It’s simple to use, just feed the slides (or negatives) into a slot on the side of the scanner and the pictures appear on the large 7″ screen. Press a button and the shot is saved and ready to print. There are limited options available to adjust the brightness and color, although if you’re used to photo editing on a PC, this will seem primitive. Happily, you can upload the images onto your computer using the cord provided. You must purchase a SD card, as it doesn’t come with one and I found out the hard way, you cannot use it without the card. At first, I thought I could scan the photos directly into my computer if the scanner was hooked up to it, but that doesn’t work. Overall, this is a great product if you want to convert your negatives and slides to a digital format without paying someone else to do it for you. When I was finished scanning, I took the SD card to my local CVS and had a collection of photos in a few hours. I can’t wait to show my mom the 66-year-old photos of her wedding and shower this Christmas.

  24. SusanneGreenawa says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    This works great and is easy to use. Some of my slides are actually larger than the scanner will accept. They look like regular slides but indicate they are color transparencies. I’ll use something else for those. Overall satisfied to save my old slides.

  25. Anonymous says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Probably will not get to it till after the holiday but it arrived and looks fine.

  26. Anonymous says:

     France 🇫🇷

    pour numriser de nombreuses diapos anciennes. J’avais besoin d”un appareil suffisamment simple d’emploi mais qui ne sacrifie pas la qualit du rsultat final.
    Il m’a t livr trs rapidement et s’avre adquat l’usage pour lequel je l’ai achet.

  27. Anonymous says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    I will be using this slide & negative machine to get put on a digital stick.

  28. bublesli2 says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Worked great. the enlarged screen is worth the few extra dollars.

  29. ElinorTalbot says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    This item was securely packaged and quickly delivered. I haven’t used it yet but I think it will make my process of sorting, organizing, and safely saving cherished family photos of several generations a fun project.

  30. zenithcrush says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Golden Review Award: 54 From Our UsersFirst — Am I happy with it? YES. If you mainly want ACCEPTABLE SCANS of your memories, it’s QUICK and EASY. Perfectionists or serious photographers who sell photos should buy something more professional or use commercial scanning services; still, it’s good for quick scanning of many less important slides.

    Helpful articles: DPReview Jan 2021 “Reporting: Lab scan vs. Kodak Slide ‘n Scan” and Dec 2019 “Scanning vs photographing slides” (includes a video of Library of Congress archiving methods). I spent many hours reading articles and watching videos about digitizing.

    I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 because it lacks the superior quality of far more expensive scanners and it limits exposure compensation. But overall, it’s easy, speedy, and good quality.

    Scanning is a tradeoff between TIME, QUALITY, and PRICE; top quality demands a lot more money and time. Pro film photographers often grimace and groan when asked if they’ve digitized all their old negatives and slides! Best methods: a dedicated film scanner (Epson, Nikon, etc. at $400 to $1000+), a flatbed scanner (min 2000dpi) with a transparency media adapter or homemade “Backlighter,” a DSLR with a macro lens setup ($300+), extension tubes ($40+), or an old slide duplicator/reverser ($40 on e-bay, but requires a full-frame camera), and other creative setups found on the internet.

    I scanned over 6000 slides from the 1970s to 80s. My Kodak Ektachrome and Kodakchrome slides retained more original colors than my Fujichrome. Commercial scanning companies charge about $0.20 to 0.70 per slide and more depending on quantity (e.g. $140 for 200 slides, $1000 for 5000 slides); custom scans cost even more. So it cost me $240 / 6000 slides = $0.04 per slide. It’s more economical IF you have thousands of slides. An average roll (36 exposures) took me less than 10 minutes to scan (longer if I had many adjustments), so about 5 rolls per hour including saving photos to my hard drive. Compare that to one pro that used a high-end scanner who spent four 8-hour days to scan 1800 slides (about 1 minute per slide).

    I haven’t scanned negativesfor most photo memories, I simply place nine 4×6 prints together and use a DSLR to photograph them at max megapixel; I save only irreplaceable negatives.

    TIPS:

    Years ago, I bought a Wolverine F2D 20-Super, but it sat in a box until recently. Its 1-inch monitor is useless, so I hooked it up to my TV — after a month its connection mysteriously failed. Besides, adjusting exposures and colors was time consuming — make a small change, press OK, and then it displayed the changes. So I bought the Kodak — you can adjust exposures and colors in REAL TIME — you see your changes immediately before saving (A MAJOR PLUS, no matter what scanner you buy — expect MANY exposure adjustments).

    I chose the 7-inch over the 5-inch screen to facilitate editing in a pinch and to use later as a digital picture frame (approximating a 4 x 6 photo), but I always planned to connect it to a large monitor. Reviewers of the 5-inch scanner had some software issues, so I hoped the 7-inch model was upgraded.

    MONITOR: The 7-inch screen is acceptable for many photos, but definitely not for fine detail adjustments. Use a large computer monitor with HDMI input (for a VGA monitor, use a female HDMI to male VGA adapter). To connect the scanner, you need a male mini-HDMI to female standard-HDMI adapter; plug the male end into the scanner, and then use a standard male to male HDMI cable to connect to your monitor. (You can eliminate the adapter by using a special male mini-HDMI to male standard-HDMI cable.) I mainly share photos with friends on my computer monitor or large screen TV (which essentially replaced my old slide projector and white screen), but calibrating colors on a computer monitor is easier than most TVs. If you’re going to display photos on a large screen, then use a large screen to edit them!

    COMPUTER: Connecting the scanner’s USB cable to my desktop computer as a power source also allowed easy transfer of images to my hard drive. The computer (or laptop) has its own separate monitor, so I could use my photo editor immediately after image transfer (so I use 2 monitors; 1 connected to the computer, and 1 connected only to the scanner) as well as listen to music while scanning.

    PRIORITIZE SLIDES TO BE TIME EFFICIENT:
    1) Slides to scan and then discard.
    2) Slides to scan and then send to relatives and friends who may want to professionally scan them and make enlargements.
    3) Slides to professionally scan (especially where exposure and color adjustments are crucial) — slides that are irreplaceable and/or make money; I still keep those original slides. Or if you prefer, use one of the other homemade setups and do it yourself — the DSLR method seems best.

    In the late 70s, I ordered “inter-negatives” of slides I sold as huge enlargements (low concert lighting required slide film processed at higher ASAs, not possible with negative film back then). A slide loupe magnifier and LED light table or panel ($15 at a home building store) sometime help when you’re not exactly sure.

    ALWAYS CLEAN your scanner and slides. Small specks are obvious, especially in the sky (or maybe specks were birds or dust on your camera lens). Constantly check the scanner screen for dust and use its wiper brush. Clean your slides with a wide photo brush stick (easier to use and hold in the same hand while inserting a slide) and use a separate blower for lots of dust. When you still see specks on the screen, simply remove the slide holder and clean your slide and scanner screen if necessary (or flick the slide on the left side to eject the slide on the right side so you can clean it). BE PATIENT — cleaning is easier than touching up later!

    EASIER SCANNING: Save a junk “pusher” slide to insert on the left side of the slide holder to help line up your first slide, and also to push your last slide into the scanner. And use a nice comfortable chair if you’re scanning for hours!

    UNEXPECTED CROPPING: The scanner crops some of the photo; long ago, slide photography taught me to avoid filling the entire frame since enlargements often cropped the edges, but sometimes it wasn’t enough. E.g. vertically, the scanner cropped off the top of an Egyptian pyramid, so I simply used a scissors to trim the bottom of the slide so the slide moved downward in the holder to make the pyramid top visible. Horizontally, you have to choose between what’s more important, the left or right edge.

    EXPOSURE ADJUSTMENTS AND LIMITATIONS: Remember — the scanner is actually a camera taking a digital photo of the slide. I had to adjust exposure on MOST slides. Aim for an exposure (often underexposed) that reveals the MOST DETAILS (look for letters in signs, lines in buildings, light poles, mountain tops, no hot spots in facial features, etc.).

    It’s like adjusting EV on a digital camera, but the scanner only takes an AVERAGE exposure of the entire frame, not a SPOT exposure of a specific area. Photos with great differences between light and dark areas can be frustrating.

    Examples:
    — Eiffel Tower dark intricate steel framework from below against a bright sky
    — Friends on a beach with the sun behind them where you wished you used a flash to illuminate their faces
    — Bright sky photos with a dark airplane (like a Navy Blue Angel)
    — Night photos (concerts, performers, fireworks) where most of the background is black; the scanner may overexpose the main subject. In existing light photography, you turn off your exposure meter and manually set your speed and aperture to avoid overexposures.

    Sometimes even Kodak’s +/-2 EV isn’t enough; I suggest +/-4 EV for future models. To fool the scanner exposure meter to go beyond +/-2 EV, sometimes I slid the slide slightly in the holder to areas of the photo I planned to crop, or I made a little physical dark paper mask and stuck it (with a glue stick) on the bottom of the slide to block part of the scanner light source to decrease average exposures.

    If the photo is very important, make a few scans (like bracketing exposures) to work on later with your photo editor. Treat it like a multiple-exposure HDR Capture (High Dynamic Range); some software can combine all the exposures into one photo, OR send that slide to the commercial scanning services!

    When it doubt, ask yourself, “Is this slide worth $1 to pay a lab to custom scan? OR should I take multiple exposures and use HDR software to combine the images myself. OR should I spend a lot of time and money using expensive scanning or camera equipment?”

    KNOW YOUR PHOTO EDITOR: At first, after scanning a roll, I saved it to my computer (already connected to the scanner’s USB cable). Then I used photo editing software to crop and Auto Enhance for colors, brightness and contrast, bringing many colors from 40 years ago back to life. By knowing the capabilities of your photo editor, it’s easier to choose better adjustments beforehand with the Kodak scanner.

    I seldom adjusted Kodak’s RGB unless colors were washed-out; do it before using your photo editor. (Remember, you’re actually adjusting the scanner’s camera to photograph your slide; it’s always better to start with a good photo before using any photo editor. Old, washed-out slides need a good photo editor to revive the original colors even with the best scanner on the market.)

    My Kodak scanner and photo editing software work together as a team so I get a better feel on exposures; sometimes underexposure on the Kodak gave better results when my photo editor executed Auto Enhance. Once I understood what my photo editor could do, I then scanned all my slides, leaving photo editing for later.

    TO MAKE IT EASIER AND FASTER when you need to adjust thousands of slides, use one of the new economical photo editors with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do most of your work, such as Luminar, Movavi, Photoshop CC, etc. Expect a fair amount of post editing, so make it easy. Even pros are praising the new AI photo editors — hours of complicated editing can now be done in less than a minute!

    SOME PHOTOS JUST WON’T SCAN PROPERLY: Either send them to a custom service or forget them — if you haven’t looked at them for 30 years, they’re not that important! (Remember when your uncle would invite everyone over to watch a 2-hour slide show of his vacation?)

    Treat it like “photo triage” — do you really want to spend the money and time on an expensive scanner? Save the handful of complex scans for the pros and pay them for their expensive machines. Trying to scan every single slide to perfection quickly turns tedious.

    I still have around 2000 slides of night concerts to scan where exposure is very tricky. I’ll use the Kodak scanner to save the less important slides, but make a DSLR setup for the prime slides that require a lot of time to digitize. I’ll shoot RAW with the camera tethered to my computer monitor and photo editor. For the absolute best, I’ll use a custom lab. Afterwards, I’ll hermetically seal and store them.

    ORGANIZING: I organize each roll into a file directory; some photo editors do this. If you can’t remember dates of your slides, see if the processing lab stamped the slides with a month and lot order number (generally, if you sent several rolls to process at the same time, they all had the same lot number). Label your directories with that info, and after scanning all your slides, look at the photos to sort the directories chronologically.

    CONCLUSION: Use the Kodak scanner to scan most photos to make it cost and time efficient, and for the most precious photos, use a superior setup (film scanner or DSLR, but requires more time) or a commercial lab. The Kodak scanner saved me a lot of time and money!

    HAVE FUN! Seeing memories from 40 years ago and remembering family and old friends is terrific for your spirits!

  31. Charlene A. Wilson says:

     United States

    I like how easy this film scanner is to use. It is a point-and-shoot kind of level of difficulty, meaning that it is very easy to use. The results that you get are not exceptional, but they are adequate for most people and most situations. Professional photographers will need a scanner with a higher resolution. If you have accumulated a mountain of film and slides over the years and are looking for an easy and inexpensive way to turn those physical things into digital files, then this film/slide scanner might be the perfect solution for you. It is easy to use, does a decent job, and makes the job more manageable and possible, and I know from experience that knowing that you can do something is often all I need to start to do something. With this scanner, you can do the job. 5 stars.

  32. CandraJNDa says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Golden Review Award: 2 From Our UsersThe Kodak Slide and Scan is an excellent device for converting slides and negatives to digital format. It is simple to set up, easy to operate, and produces high-quality images. It does require an SD card to operate (not supplied). The construction of the device is “light,” meaning you need to be careful when using because this is intended for “gentle” operation. Well worth the price!

  33. Alex Blake says:

     Belgium 🇧🇪

    Goed:
    – 1 knops bediening om te scannen
    – schermgrootte en kleurweergave
    – scansnelheid
    – hdmi scherm aansluiting

    Tegen:
    – instellingen moeten na uit-/aanschakelen steeds opnieuw ingesteld worden.
    – kleurrange instellingen te beperkt
    – 110 en 126 formaat zijn geen 14Mb pixels.
    – 22Mb is interpolatie van de 14Mb scan
    – Max. 9999 scans op 1 geheugenkaart ondanks 32Gb support.

    Goede beeldkwalitei

  34. Anonymous says:

     United States 🇺🇸

    Golden Review Award: 2 From Our UsersVery easy to use!! And the pictures look way better than I thought, especially since they are 50year old slides that have been sitting in a box in the basement all this time! Can’t wait to put them all in an album for my parents!!

  35. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 13 From Our UsersI have an Epson Perfection V500 Photo flatbed scanner that does an excellent job of scanning both 35mm slides and negatives including high resolution scanning, color correction, and dust/scratch removal through Digital Ice. You cannot beat the quality of the Epson photo scanner. However, the one downside of the Epson scanners is that they are very slow. Even if I turn down and/or off settings, the process is slow having to swap out slides and negatives.

    I had a very large collection of slides and negatives to scan, so although my long-term goal is to scan everything at high quality with my Epson scanner, I wanted something that I could scan my collection a lot quicker and just get a digital copy while I work on the longer-term higher quality scans. For this reason, I chose this Kodak scanner.

    This scanner does allow you to scan a lot quicker than a flatbed scanner. You just push the slides or negatives through like an assembly line, scanning one at a time. It takes only a second or two for the device to take the scan. You do put the slides in a tray that you insert into the scanner, and then with negative you use different adapters that install into the tray. This then allows you to push the slide or negative through scanning one picture at a time. Everything is saved onto an SD memory card that you insert into the device. However, this speed does come at a cost. The quality of the scans is good and acceptable, but they are nowhere near as good photo flatbed scanner, but that is part of the tradeoff for speed. I do wish that this device had an option for higher quality scans.

    Another good use for this device is if you just want to quickly look at your slides and negatives, either for viewing pleasure or if you are using a higher quality scanner to perform the scans and you need to decide which slides/negatives you are going to scan.

    There were a few things that I did not like about this scanner. First off, I feel that it crops too much of the edges of the pictures. In other words, it does not do a full scan of either the slide or the negative and instead crops the edges. It should actually capture more picture and overs can, and then you can crop and fix post scan. It’s always better to capture too much information and then discard than not capture enough and then the information is lost. The second problem with the scanner is that if you only have one slide (or the last slide you are scanning), it will get “stuck” in the scanner since the leading edge does not come out of the other end of the scanner. To get it out, you have to use another slide to push it through, and that slide you use to push it through then almost gets stuck completely in the scanner. Fortunately, the second slide’s trailing end does poke out a bit so you can then pull it back out. I wish the scanner had some type of tool that would allow you to push the slides through when needed.

    Another problem I ran into were the instruction manual that came with the scanner. They were not very detailed. Worse yet, the instructions are confusing. They refer to the slides and file as 50mm. Although technically the total size of the slides is 50mm, no one refers them as 50mm. Everyone refers to the traditional size of the actual film which is 35mm. This made if very confusing when I had some “super slides” to scan where the film size was larger than a standard 35mm slide. I didn’t know what settings I should use. Ultimately it turned out to be that this scanner is not able to properly scan slides that are not the traditional 35mm slide as it crops too much of the film out. I also learned there are actually a lot of different size slides in my troubleshooting, and it appears this scanner can only properly scan the traditional 35mm slides. The manual and product description should be a lot clearer about this.

    Ultimately this scanner does do what it says it does. It lets you quickly scan your slides and negatives at a decent quality. If you are looking for a scanner that can quickly get your slide/negative collection digitized at a decent but not great quality, with no color correction or dusty/scratch removal, then this device fits the bill. If your goal is quantity and not great quality, then I would recommend this scanner.

  36. JeanettGirardi says:

     United States

    I have been wanting to scan a lot of my old pictures. This scanner is exactly what I needed. Easy to use and the quality oft the images is good.

  37. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 5 From Our UsersThis KODAK scanner is not without a few issues, but it works incredibly well. I’ll first mention the issues:

    Issue 1: Make sure the slides or negatives you put into the unit are dust free (or as close as you can get them). Otherwise, the dust will show up on the final picture, and it can also transfer into the unit and show up on further pictures. I’ve had this happen several times now, so I can testify that the unit can be blown out successfully — it’s just a little frustrating and better to avoid.

    Issue 2: For really old negatives that have started to curl, it can sometimes be difficult to get them to slide through. For negatives like this, I have been able to slide them through backwards. It’s not as easy, but it did allow me to still get the pictures. There’s probably a small design change that could be implemented by KODAK in a future revision that would fix this issue.

    Overall, though, it’s easy to use and works really well. I have it attached to a power bank, put in a 32GB SD card, selected the right “frame” for converting 35mm pictures, inserted the sliding mechanism into the scanner, and have already converted well over a thousand pictures (I’ll include several samples). This has taken a couple of evenings so far, but it’s been fun to see my wife’s childhood memories. My wife’s family took a lot of pictures, and while they are all stored at her mom’s house in a truly impressive number of albums; my wife has wanted all of the pictures to get scanned and backed up for years now. Compared to removing each picture from the albums one by one and scanning, cropping, trying to remove dust, etc; this unit is faster, doesn’t require any post processing, and the end results are almost always better than the original paper photograph. I’ve been very impressed, and my wife is thrilled to be getting so many of her memories saved. We plan on gifting these to the family when all of them have been converted. Recommended 100%.

    Great Results | Easy to Use!

  38. Anonymous says:

     Canada 🇨🇦

    Trs bon produit qui permet de numriser les diapositives et les ngatifs facilement et dans un temps qui est trs bon. Il est facile utiliser.

  39. Anonymous says:

     United States

    Golden Review Award: 4 From Our UsersAs far as functionality this works pretty great as intended. I have two major complaints though.

    1) The color contrast could use some work. I had a roll of film that had the film and photos printed and the digital version and the printed photo were noticeably different in color saturation. Not totally terrible but side by side it was obvious. You could probably do some post processing on the computer to make it better but you shouldn’t have to.

    2) You must use an SD card for this, you can’t save and transfer directly to a computer. The listing doesn’t claim to have this function I’m just mentioning it here as it would have been nice to have. Even if you have it hooked up to or powered by a computer you still have to save each individual photo on the SD card, move the SD card to your computer, and then move the photos from the SD card to the computer. It just seems like an extra unnecessary step. The inverse of this, is that you can use it without a computer nearby so in that respect it’s handy. Just wish it had the option for both.