KODAKSlide N SCAN Film & Slide Scanner Digitizer with 5” LCD Screen, Quickly Convert Negatives & Slides to Digital 22MP JPEG Photos, Compatible with 135, 126 and 110 Film & Slides

Bought this to digitize family slides so they could be shared with the family. Simple to operate and though it takes some time of the collection is large... Well worth it. The scans were as good as the slides... And you can do some color correction once you have them in an editor.

I'm so happy with this little device! As soon as it arrived I tested a 35mm color negative. It's really simple to use, as soon as you set up the scanner and slide in the negative, you can see the image immediately on the screen. It's so enjoyable and quick and the quality exceeded my expectations. You do need to buy a 32GB SD card or 32GB SDHC card. It will not work with larger GB or with SDXC cards.Setup:Plug in the USB-C/USB cable (provided) into the scanner. USB-C side goes into the scanner, and the USB side goes into to your PC or to a wall adapter. Insert the SD card in the back of the scanner (right next to the USB-C slot). Open the hinged slide holder and insert the adapter for 135mm, 126mm or 110mm depending on what film you are using, and then snap it closed again. The manual shows you how to align the adapter inside the hinged holder. If you are scanning slides you won't need an adapter, you will just need the slide holder. Insert the slide holder into the slot on the right side of the scanner. The arrow on the slide holder should be pointing toward the scanner. About an inch will still be visible, sticking out of the slot. This is where you insert the film.How to use:Press the power button (it must be plugged in to PC or wall using the USB cable to power on). Press the large OK button on the front to select film type. Use right/left arrows on the top of the machine to select film type and then click OK. Select the film size and click OK. Make sure your film is right side up, and slide the negative into the slide holder on the right side of the scanner. Smile when you see your image on the screen! You will need to adjust the film so that the image is centered on the scanner, and then press the large OK button again. Slide the film further in until you can see the next image. Press OK to scan. Once you can't push the film in any further, you can insert the next piece of film and it will push the first one through and out the left side. I found a few times where the film was curved and wouldn't go in past the first image. If this happens you can remove the slide holder from the scanner, insert the film into the holder while gently pressing down on the first image. It should slide through and you can reinsert the holder into the scanner with film already in it. It takes about 2 seconds for the image to scan.Transferring photos to your PC. You have 2 options - you can remove the SD card and insert it directly into your laptop/PC if it has a slot. If not you can connect the scanner to your PC using the USB cable (provided) while the SD card is still in the scanner. This will bring up a USB device on your PC and you can see all of the images. They are given file names based on the order you scan them. I have scanned over 1,000 images on the SD card so far.Quality: The quality of the images is better than I expected. For sure up to 8x10 prints would be high quality, I'm attaching a scanned image so you can see. Also please note in the scanned image I didn't center the negative properly. If you are moving too quickly through the images this can happen, so it's good to view the images periodically in case you need to rescan anything. Make sure you keep the film dust free, and also make sure the scanner is dust free. It comes with a cleaning brush that can be inserted into the slot where the slide holder goes to clean out dust. Do this with the soft part of the brush facing down. I didn't do this at first and some of the images ended up with some marks from the dust.

I was hesitant to buy this item because of the price. However, I am completely satisfied with it! It's wonderful to see the color return to the images and be reminded of photos that have been lost. I definitely would recommend this be pared with a photo editor on the PC. The digital images tend to look faded compared to the original photos.Apparently, Kodak had received bad reviews by people confused about what this is. This product will only scan and save already developed negatives. It will not print photos, it will not develop film. It's just a little tabletop device, not an expensive machine that takes up a small closet!For what it is; it's wonderful. The manual is easy to read and understand and the scanner is easyaround. You will need to have a compatible SD card to save scans.CON: It does not connect to a cellphone by wireless. But there are work arounds.

I am a child of the 1950's. Everyone in my family and in particular my Grandfather used Ektachrome for slides. When I went away to college I studied Art and the fundamental method of conveying images was through slides. it was "standard operating procedure" for a long time. I have a Kodak Carousel slide projector still in use. I took slides of everything because Ektachrome was always in my Pentax Spotmatic F. I have accumulate a great many slides after almost 70 years but many of them have not been seen in a very long time. That is until now. I do not have a place to set up a projector and I have for a long time needed a way to achive this recorded history. I did the search here and discovered this unit from Kodak. I read reviews and have learned to toss the demonstrably bad ones from those with axes to grind (2 ** for no SD card included) . I bought this and fell in love with it right out of the box. It is very easy to set up and use with very little reference to the manual. I am one of those people who don't like using manuals. There were a few things like learning the clock is not designed to be continuous but just a date stamp that knowing in the beginning saved some frustration but for the most part the buttons on the top will explain themselves. I have had a box of slides slides floating around since moving in to my present location that had separated themselves from the bulk of those that I have stored. I have wanted to see what this box contained but it is not that easy to hold them up to the light and see all of the detail. So with new Kodak unit now plugged into the USB port of my iMac I headed into the unknown. With the unit powered on and a quick glance at the manual to see which button to push for review i was away down memory lane. I was initially only going to look at a couple of images to see how the images looked on the 5 inch screen. But i soon was so captured by the quality of what i was seeing that i went went one slide after another until every one of almost 200 slides had been recorded. I owned several slide viewers in the late 80's and early to mid 90's and they were always problematic to use. They were just small projection boxes whose lamps always generated a great deal of heat and were rather cumbersome to use and store. And they were only viewers with not means of recording images. This Kodak unit has solved everything for me. It is small enough that it sits comfortably amongst my other pieces on my desktop and yet large enough to easily see the screen. It is also very stable and will rest comfortably wherever it is placed. This unit has for me been the answer for everything that i have needed. Now I have a reason to excavate my Grandfather's old slides a relive the Christmas gatherings when everyone was still around. I whole heartedly recommend this Kodak viewer/recorder to anyone with similar needs.

This is an affordable, quick, and easy way to scan in old slides and photos. I have a high end scanner but I needed something easier to use and portable. This is perfect!