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

Works as well as expected and easy to operate, so I'm able to view and save some old family photos

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!

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.

This was probably my favourite Amazon purchase. I had about 300 negatives i wanted to digitalise. Easy to use very good results and surprisingly cheap. 100%

I have many thousands of negatives and slides to scan and get them into the digital age. I had hoped that this Kodak scanner would be just right, but unfortunately the image quality is just not quite good enough. It is really simple to set up and use, and strips of negatives are scanned very quickly. Slides take a bit longer as you have to align the slide in the holder exactly. You can rattle through films very fast. However the price paid is that the resolution is not really good enough. Unfortunately there is no alternative but to use a dedicated professional film scanner which takes a lot of time but the image quality is far greater. The old saying that you get what you pay for is true, and this little Kodak scanner would be reasonable for the images produced if it was sold at under £100, but not the price it retails for.

Very pleased with initial impressions of this device. Easy to use after 4-5 minutes familiarisation with the buttons (brightness and colour). Much faster scanning lots of slides than methods I've had in the past. Acceptable quality scans. The screen is big enough for you to see what you are doingThe manual says SDXC cards are not compatible, and there is a maximum of 32GB. However my SanDisk 64GB SDXC card is working perfectly well in it. I've got a lot of work to do - thousands of slides!