20 Best Scanner For Slides And Negatives (2023 Updated)

Look, the Kodak Slide N Scan is absolutely easy to use and you can digitize 140 slides in an hour. As to Color & Resolution it can vary from Great to Good. That said, it’s easier to fine tune the digitized slides on your computer.

I highly recommend this item for what it is. The Price is Right and it it’s Extremely Easy to Use. With regards to Resolution & Color that depends on the state of the slides. Are the slides encased in paper or plastic and what is the thickness of the encasing medium? All of these variables affect these two parameters.

I’m sure there are better digitizing devices that are 3-4 x as expensive and very complicated to use. I had over 5000 slides to do. Time is important to me.

I purchased this scanner to copy all of the slides that my parents had taken over the years. It is simple to set up and use and with the preview screen you are able to adjust color and brightness prior to saving to the SD card.

I will be trying it out on negatives to digitally archive them. The two draw backs are the SD card, would like to save it directly to the computer, and the color/brightness adjustments, would like a more sensitive control to fine tune the image.

All and all it is a product I would recommend.

This is my 2nd Slide n Scan – the first got taken out by a lightning strike. They’re real easy to use and for my purpose of getting massive amounts of slide scan, it’s hard to beat for the price. I can process slide pretty quickly now compared to an older scanner I had been using.

Just push them into the holder, push the button and add another slide. the first one pops out the other side. Easy Peasy. It also can scan film strips of color negative or black and white.

The scanning unit worked exactly as advertised and produced super results. I came home with boxes and boxes of old family slides from decades ago. I used this little scanner to convert every slide. The results were far better than I had expected and I am really happy with the results.

I am even more happy that I could convert all of these old family slides to digital. Well done, Kodak!.

I bought this scanner to save myself from the costs of scanning and printing at my local camera store. And, it did just that! Obviously, the scans aren’t going to be flatbed quality but for the price this really can’t be beat.

I really love that there’s a brightness adjustment. I haven’t used the color adjustment, so I won’t say anything about it. And overall, this scanner is super easy to use; there’s virtually no set up to do, and operation consists of moving the film forward and pushing a button.

I would be comfortable printing images from this scanner at around 8″ x 10″. I think it could handle 13″ x 17″ prints as well if the image was sharp to begin with. My only complaints are that the mini USB cable that it came with didn’t connect properly, so I had to use my own to get consistent power.

Additionally, this scanner is super susceptible to collecting dust, so its sensor needs to be wiped off before each use. Not that big a deal though, it definitely doesn’t make the product any less convenient all things considered.

I purchased my BB Scanza and received it safely thru UPS. All details were in the box along with a ‘small print’ manual. I downloaded the manual “Kodak-Scanza-KODFS35-Manual. pdf” from the support tab at: https://www.

kodakphotoplus. com/pages/download-user-manuals. [30 pgs] English. Other languages are in the Paper book. All type and diagrams are typical of 3rd party, 3rd world manufactures, very small. Use Acrobat to enlarge the type.

Note: Kodak does -NOT- manufacture this Product or provide any Warranty or support. Authorized KODAK Brand Licensee. C&A Marketing, Inc. Distributed by: C&A Marketing, Inc. I’m not going to inform you about using anything but the 35 mm Color Slide option.

There are other reviews (not to good) on using the film types (Film gets scratched in the carriers I hear). Good luck. Follow the setup first. If you have a HDMI TV use that over the viewer or use your big screen TV if the HDMI cable is long enough.

I used a 32GB SD memory card, worked fine. I used the #1 adapter (use the #3 if your slide film carrier is the thicker or plastic type). You get to select between 14 and 22 MB scans. They are both 14 MB but the 22 is an upscalled/interpolation image like TV’s use.

My 18 Images = 75 MB. Using the 22 MB option I get a. JPG picture that averages 4. 3 MB at 5728 x 3824 at 72 dpi, sharpness –A bit Soft ???, bit depth is 24, All settings on -Auto-, remember your mileage may vary based on the image.

Follow the instruction on having the shiny side of the film Up, and the Image in the “Viewed” position. Number sequence starts at 000001, Remove the drive images to go back to #1. And orient the direction of the film so you need not have to edit it on the machine.

Insert with the image showing correctly up and L/R correct the first time. Watch for flipped images from the developer, like backwards Text and Steering wheels on the wrong side, Etc. I used the ‘AUTO’ feature in Settings and let it decide.

You may also choose to group like contrasts of the slides to reduce changing that each time. If the colors are still off that can also be modified, once again place those in groups. Get a can of “Dust Off” to blow off the dirt and stuff in the unit and on the slides.

I had over a thousand slides to scan, most people do and use this product to do that. For higher resolution and more adjustments use a Flat Bed Scanner, they are much more taylorable. And make sure you get one that does negatives if your going to do them also.

I only scanned Positives. Turn the power on last and off first to protect the scanner. I had to turn the scanner on then the HDMI set to get it to sync most of the time. I had two old scans come back from the dead, so don’t hurry the transfers but I was using 3 software packages to create my Data.

I bought this for my daddy for Christmas. I bought it for a couple of reasons. We lost my mom in September unexpectedly. Dad is not one to spend much time indoors, but I knew spending time indoors this winter would be even harder for him with my mom not there.

I thought this might be a good ‘toy’ to keep Daddy busy & distracted on those days when it was too cold to work in the yard or woodshed. Our family has a ton of slides from when my sisters and I were little.

I know that none of us have seen those slides in over 40 years, so I thought it would be a great tool to use to reminisce about our younger years and to relive some of our family vacations & other fun times with my dad and my sisters as well as with my nephew and two nieces whom I know have never seen those slides.

Can’t wait for COVID to become a non-issue so we can get together at my parents’ home to spend time downloading pics from the slides. Just wish Mom was going to be there to enjoy the show!.

Purchased this scanner as I have a tonne of negatives lieing around and recently got myself back shooting 35mm. The scanner works fine. Obviously a very long process scanning so many negatives, so would be nice to have two negative attachments instead of one.

Had major problems getting the software working as the serial numbers didn’t work, I don’t have a cd/dvd drive you see as I’m using a Mac. But Wilkinson’s helped me out and so did the software company.

All in all it does a good job but I might of benefitted from a flatbed scanner instead. But time will tell. Great product and fits perfect on my desk.

Great item for the price point. I have several hundred 35mm slides to convert to digital. The adapter for them is a good fit. Push the slides through 1 after the other. Each successive slide lines up the preceding slide in the viewer.

Press the button to copy and push in the next slide. Adapter holds 3 total slides so the 4th slide pushes the first side out the other side. If the slide picture quality is good then its a job of push slide, click, push, click.

There is color and contrast adjustment built in which works well enough for minor adjustments. It would become unneccessarily complicated to add many more exposure adjustments. The display is sharp and the 5″ screen is great.

You can transfer directly from the SD card while its in the unit. switch to USB transfer mode and transfer, delete, etc. Cannot do any other software edit functions from computer to unit. Need to move the SD card to computer for that.

Scanned about 1000 slides and negatives in last week. Was able to pull out some almost non-existent images on ancient slides. Fairly easy to use. Had some jamming of paper mount slides in adapter. Minor annoyance.

The instruction book was not very well written or comprehensive. Most functions easy to figure out. Power time out is bothersome. Haven’t figured how to lengthen working time or disable time out. Adding SD card helps extend time between dumps.

Photo quality good. Provides enough to clean up with Photoshop. Liked this scanner and will use it a lot digitizing old negatives and slides.

Wish I realized that older negatives are larger (sometimes much larger) than 35mm and wont fit into the adapters or even the slot. But operation is easy to figure out and has worked great for my first 500 negatives.

Many more to go.

Wife sorted through over 500 35mm slides and stored scans in jpg format for storage on computer. Basic ‘corrections’ were made using the device with acceptable results.

The 35mm slide holder would be easier to use if was a little longer. The little I’ve used the product I think it is a good product.

Smooth as silk. The plustek 8200i is hardy and well made. Ease of use from my first scan. The maximum scan resolution @ 7200i gives 66 mega pixel files. Lasersoft software silverfast studio 9 is pretty intuitive with simple controls.

The overall scan quality is far superior to the my current flatbeds and also to two Nikon coolscans which have since been retired. Several tone curves built into silverfast render authentic tonal properties (negafix).

I was stunned by plus x pan and tri x negative to positive conversions. The scanner self calibrates in about two minutes with the provided IT 8 target. Other functions in the easy to find GUI are iSRD ( Equivalent of Digital ICE infra red automatic cleaning of dust and scratches) , AACO (adaptive contrast optimization), Saving files to PSD or RAW in addition to standard Jpegs Or TIFF (16 bit), Unsharp mask, Level and Curve adjustments, Auto exposure.

On the whole, A very satisfying experience.

Although a slightly older model, this scanner performs equally as well as the Epson Perfection V600. Downloading the utilities from Epson Support, they installed without flaw. Scanning modes provided function from full-auto to professional, full-manual for scanning, cropping, sharpening, color restoration, and dust/scratch removal.

Although, some of these features did not provide the quality of image restoration as I was looking through all of the function modes, I did not have a problem creating a quality image file in professional, full-manual mode.

Overall, I used this scanner in professional full-manual mode with relative ease, with the exception of having to individually toggle “off,” then “on,” each photo enhancement attribute to apply them to the photo in the preview window (the check-boxes should have indicated which enhancement attributes were going to be applied when it was preview-scanned).

I like the way it will preview scan 2 strips of 35mm film in one go & pick out the individual shots & allow you to adjust the rotation etc before scanning the ones you select. I also like the facility to scan the older 6 x 9cm negatives.

There is also a wide choice of scanning resolution so you can choose the best you can get with your negatives, although it takes a lot longer to scan with high resolution. I don’t like that it doesn’t come with an instruction manual so you have to go to the website to see the manual.

It took me a while to get the hang of using it as a result. I also find it a bit temperamental. While scanning the 6 x 9 negatives it would sometimes split them into two & I would have to switch the scanner off & on & close & open the software to get it to do it properly again and once while scanning 35mm it lost contact with the scanner & it took several attempts at giggling the cables & switching on & off before it would connect again.

I am writing this review for anyone who, like me, needs to scan non-standard size slides. In my case in 2″x2″ mounts, but larger than 35mm (I think the film size was 828 from memory, but anyway it was about 38mm wide).

I earlier bought a dedicated slide scanner, which was quick but cropped my slides quite badly and the quality was not good – too contrasty and harsh colours. I contacted Canon about their Canoscan 9000F and they said I would have to take the slides out of the mounts, though I’m not sure if they understood the question correctly.

Anyway I played safe and bougght the Epson V500 instead and am very glad I did. I switched off thumbnails as I read somewhere that this was advisable, and selected Professional mode on the Epson software.

This enables me to set a mask (they call it a marquee) on each slide for the area I want. I overscan and then crop to size later. This way you can even ignore the instruction to scan all slides in landscape configuration.

The other big bonus is the picture quality. I’m not an expert but even I can tell it is far superior to the previous scanner, with much better rendering of detail and more natural looking colours. The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because it is very slow in high resolution – I found 2400dpi was about right for slides.

But if you have non-standard size slides – or just want to make sure you get to the very edge of 35mm slides – this scanner is ideal.

Creates beautiful scans at 4800 dpi. Teams seamlessly with VueScan and my Mac running High Sierra to correct color and exposure values from some old slides in bad condition. I have scanned 35mm slides and strips of color negatives.

It has also driven my SF200 stack loader, with some intervention every few slides. Overall, I am very happy with the scanner. I produces better output than anything else i have seen at twice the price.

This is an amazing scanner. I am running it on Mac OS 10. 12 Sierra using 64-bit VueScan. All of the features work including the Digital ICE. It has taken old faded slides and slides with scratches and delivered incredible colour accurate scans completely fixed with almost no adjustments necessary or post-processing.

If you’ve got a computer with a Firewire 400 port and need to scan film or slides, this is a great investment.

This is the second machine I have purchased through e-bay. The reason for the purchase is, I do professional slide, photo, negative and positive restoration and repair. At the present I am doing preservation for 1st Air Cav Pilots tours of the Nam, from 1966 through 1972, from Pleiku, to Northern I Corp Camp Eagle just south of Hue, Gunner’s Gulch, Danang and on.

The first Nikon was purchased about 10 years ago, and I had to get it repaired after about a year, but still far less expensive than the 5000 or a new one. The first machine was for the restoration of my Mother’s professional work, Hydroplane race reporting and slides of her National work in the late 50’s through the early 70’s.

The average scan capability with ICE at fair and ROC and GEM on moderate, is about 17 slides per hour. That is the highest repair I let the machine do. Any higher and you loose personal touch. I then repair and restore via a very simple photo program.

All the above work requires the most professional equipment you can get for a resonable price. To me that is the Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ed. After learning to operate this machine, it is fairly automatic for a person to do this.

One needs to understand that the cost for a one time use for most is probably not worth it. Far better to have professionals do the work for you. One that does each slide one at a time, not with a batch scanner and machine fixing.

As far as the Nikon goes, I would not have purchased another if the machine was not Top of the Line, in my opinion. Thank You for Your Time, and I hope this helps. Popcorn590.

The most important feature of this scanner is the Digital ICE implementation. The combination of the infrared LED scanning and dust removal really works. This saves much post-processing time. However, the scanner is NOT a speed demon! If you are looking for faster scans and more efficiency, a different model with the batch adaptor would be better.

The 4000dpi scans are very impressive (I have not tried lower resolutions yet) but of course large (up to 60mb)(TIF). The scanner is solidly built. I am using it with VueScan. Color accuracy is reasonable, but of course depends on film type and condition.

Many of my slides are old and faded. I had high expectations due to the reputation of these scanners, and they have been exceeded! Loses one star for slow speed. Highly recommended.

I was really grateful to purchase this product as a replacement for my Nikon LS40. Together with Vue Scan software these scanners are so easy to use. I am halfway through a project of scanning slides for friends in order to raise funds for my church re-building fund.

I have only retested one slide for colour so far and it is great. If anyone reads this can they advise as to where I can get my LS40 refurbished/colour corrected, via eBay sources, my this model has developed a nasty blue bias and scans are not acceptable!.

I would love to have a back up machine in good working order.

Nikon CoolScan V becomes a new scanner with SilverFast 8. Dynamic range reaches up to try 4. 0 with Multi-Exposure. The focus dialog in SIlverFast uniquely allows precise focussing. It is even possible to defous so precisely that you can get rid of film grain and keep all the image details.

SilverFast iSRD gives you full control over dust and scratches and you can even save the infrared channel along with HDR (48bit) data and do the dust and scratch removal later on in SilverFast HDR application.

The scanner works very well, and scans my slides properly. I is a bit slow when scanning in high resolution, but the scans are worth waiting for. It comes with two controlling apps: CyberviewX5, and Silverfast8.

Cyberview is sparse and has limited capability to edit the resulting scans. Silverfast8 has more capability, but is awkward in its use. Since I have Photoshop I do all my editing in that, and use Cyberview to only generate a scan and do all my retouching in Photoshop.

If you do not have Photoshop, then you are likely to want to use Silverfast as your controlling software.

Based on reviews, there is currently NO consumer level 120 scanner that works reliably. Hence the sky-high prices on Coolscan 9000s, which has USB interface, 16 bit color, and a more diffuse lighting system that doesn’t emphasise film grain.

Coolscan 8000 prices are creeping up because 9000 prices are insane. In return you get 14 bit color, a light source that’s like that in every other consumer-grade film scanner, and Firewire interface.

But you get close to an honest 4000dpi resolution, and nothing will get you that for cheaper, unless you find an old unloved Creo/Scitex or Heidelberg or Screen someone wants to get rid of. And then you’ll be dealing computers and OS’s from the 90s.

Have a plan for Firewire. I was never able to get it running on a stable configuration on my Windows 10 PC, but others claim they have, using the “legacy” Firewire driver. I wound up buying an older Mac Mini with OSX Snow Leopard just to run the scanner for a hundred bucks and.

it works fine. Note that Firewire to USB adapters WILL NOT WORK. You can match the cable pin-outs, the interface logic is completely different. It may not be the absolute best 120 scanner, but it’s very very good and by far the most (semi-practical) affordable one.

EXXXELENT scanner. Much bigger than I’ve expected. I run it on Windows 7 (THANKS TO SOMEONE ON THE WEB) with Nikon original scan software altough it is not supported by Nikon anymore. From my 6x9cm scan I get a 300mb file HAHAHAHAHA.

Film holders could be built better, specially for the medium format. And yes, there’s no holder for 35mm square format (24x24mm). I did i myself and put it into medium format film holder. I regulary shot with film (voigtlander 6x9cm, lomo lubitel 6x6cm, and Lomo LC-a 35mm).

You loose some time to adjust the scan accordingly. Especially for x-pro is difficult to obtain the colors of the lab. It cost money, I’d like to buy Nikon 4000 ED, but it’s only 35mm. Any flatbed scanner is out of this quality class.

I was disapointed with delivery. The priority mail just sucks. 120 euros for delivery and it came damaged. Front panel was detached from the body and there is a huge bump on the rear. Thanks god it works.

It took me awhile to actually use this scanner. It keeps wanting to scan medium format film instead of 35mm film. it has taken me a whole day to figure out how to get it to scan my 35mm film. I am using a Gigabyte X399 Designaire EX computer with 32gb of ram running Windows 10 Pro.

My previous scanner is a Minolta Scan Dual III.

I replaced an ancient HP flatbed photo scanner with the Epson Perfection V600 photo scanner, primarily for genealogy research and photo copying. This scanner is also excellent, better is some ways and worse in one or two, and overall I am quite pleased with it.

It has a couple of quirks that I can live with, especially as the price is not ruinous for an amateur like me. I love that it can scan color and b&w transparencies and slides, up to medium-format film, and that the process is pretty easy.

(I have found ways to scan larger negatives as long as I am willing to crop the sides significantly. ) The included pdf user’s manual gives surprisingly good instructions. I also like that included software does a decent imitation of Adobe PhotoShop Elements – it’s not quite as capable, but generally it’s good enough for my purposes.

I just wish it had a spot remover in addition to general de-noise, and the scratch remover seems to be an automated whole-image function rather than something that lets me select a specific line or area.

Scratch remover also isn’t available on all my scans, despite using identical scan settings, for unknown reasons probably having to do with image size. De-noise works really well for some images and blurs others a little too much – mostly it works well.

Color transparency scans are excellent in detail and color accuracy. Color print scans generally are corrected quite well with one-touch color correction to fix color fading/shift on old prints. B&w transparency scans have good detail but do not have the deep blacks and bright contrasts of original prints from these negatives – the images look fine until you compare them to the originals, so they’re not bad, just lacking punch.

I have to use the software to darken the image significantly to get strong blacks and then increase the contrast by roughly the same amount to restore the whites. Also, the default b&w negative scan setting includes compensation for backlighting, which lightens the image even more, so I turn that off.

I started out using the automated scan function, but it does not scan the top and side 1/4″ of the image, so you can’t line up the photo along the edge of the glass. It also gets confused by photo mounting/framing or other attached components.

Switching to manual Home scanning mode fixed these problems – the user defines the scan area, which CAN go to the edge of the glass. The default scan setting, at least for Home, is for multiple Thumbnail images instead of Normal.

I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why my photos were being chopped up into multiple images until I read more of the (long) manual and realized I simply needed to click the Normal tab to define a single image.

One quirk for which I have not found a solution is that old sepia/browntone photos often come out with browns that are too dense and sometimes with red and gold tones (disconcerting around eyes/faces), especially when some of the editing corrections are used.

These images look very good if scanned in grayscale, but sometimes I want to keep the brown/beige tones for historical feel. As brownish photos must be scanned in color mode, sometimes discolorations also throw image appearance off, in many of my cases giving a pinkish cast to some areas.

Overall this is a very good scanner. Set-up was easy, and instructions are good. It needs almost no warm-up and can be turned off when not in use, and with LED lighting energy consumption is low. Scans are much faster than with my old HP – fast enough for me, although I’m used to slow scanners.

My attitude is that photo scans need a little more time to pull out the details, so I don’t expect the super speed of an office-grade copier. I recommend this scanner for purposes like mine (don’t know how it would work for a professional photographer, even though there is a Professional scan mode), and I would buy it again.

I’m giving it 4 stars overall for the brown/sepia quirk and the lack of contrast in b&w negative scans, even though I’m giving it 5 stars in the areas of overall quality, value, and ease of use.

I was not to sure about this scanner when I read about it as it was not really expensive like some I had looked at. But when I got it in and used it I was very impressed with it. So happy that I ordered it.

I am cataloging old photo’s for the children so they can all have copies and no fighting over photo’s when I pass. And I am so happy with the Quaility of the pictures. Even the really old and faded photo’s are copying so well.

I had some little 1″x2″ thumbnail photo’s and I took and scanned some of them to see how they would do and I could not believe it. They scanned larger and the clarity was great. And those little photo’s were taken back in the late 1940’s early 1950S.

Can’t tell you how happy I was. I would most definately recommend this scanner. My only wish is that it would scan larger photo’s. But I have my big scanner for that. And I see they do make one to scan the 8×10 photo’s.

But I also have the hand held wand scanner for the 8×10’s and it is great also. Between the two scanners I can scan about anything. I have attached a couple of the 1″X2″ photo’s. (Black & Whites) And one color photo to show the Quaility.

I have recently started scanning my old 35mm negatives and this item makes it so simple. A lot of other negative scanners will only scan 1 negative at a time, but with this item, it will scan an entire negative strip in less than 3 seconds using the included adaptor attachment.

You can save your scan to either your computer (you must install the accompanying software) or to the included SD card. Very easy to use and installing the software took only minutes. This item is geared towards the “home” user and is not “professional” grade.

It does NOT run on a rechargeable battery as you must plug it into an electrical source. (Power cord included. ) Scanning photos is just as simple. You can scan in either in 300dpi ~or~ 600dpi mode. My only wish is that Pandigital had included adaptors for the 110, 126, & 120 “medium” negative formats as this would’ve been my all-in-one photo scanner.

I just love this item. Too bad Pandigital went out of business.

I bought this scanner because I wanted to digitise my entire photo album collection starting from when I had my first camera in 1977. They are all 6×4 prints and smaller. I don’t have a scanner and I didn’t want the expense of purchasing a new flatbed scanner plus I didn’t want to be stuck on the computer scanning 3k photos.

What I wanted was a small dedicated photo scanner that can operate independently of a PC and didn’t require dedicated software to upload to the PC. This little scanner ticks all the boxes. Its small, can be put away in the drawer, and uses a micro SD card with an adapter (supplied).

Once scanning is finished you simply remove the card, place it into the PC’s card reader, drag and drop. Superb! Of course there is an option to scan directly to the PC with an USB cable and the supplied software – but I didn’t want that.

What I dislike about is that it does need cleaning requently. Cleaning kit is supplied and it cleans it well. What I found was that you need to scan a small batch at a time, upload to the PC, check the quality and, if there is streaking, clean the scanner.

Then do the next small batch of photos. When I fist got this scanner I did 400+ in one go, uploaded to PC and checked the quality. Its good but after the first 100 or so it started to show a white line going right across the picture in the same place on every photo.

It was like a bit of fluff had got onto the rollers. I cleaned it and that solved the problem but I had to rescan 300+ photos. After that I just did small scan sessions, say 10 – 50 photos at a time.

Quality also depends on the original photo. Dark photos didn’t scan so well. Generall though the quality is really good. You have two scan modes, 1200×300 and 300×300.

ok.