Kodak - Film & Slide Scanner, 5” LCD Screen, Portable Photo Viewer Convert Old Film Negatives & Slides to JPEG Digital Photos - Black

Love it. Great quality. A little difficult moving older slides through the tray.

[Employee of bestbuy] The Kodak Film & Slide Scanner has exceeded my expectations. It handles my old negatives and slides exceptionally well, producing clear and vibrant JPEG digital photos. One of the standout features for me is the 5" LCD screen, which makes it easy to preview and review images right on the device. It's user-friendly and portable, making the entire scanning process smooth and convenient. It helps me preserve some of my most cherished family memories in digital form. Highly recommended for photo enthusiasts and memory keepers alike!

My primary complaint with the scanner is the SD card, or lack of one. It includes several adapters, two cables, a cleaning brush, and a printed manual, but the description didn't make clear that it REQUIRES an SD card and doesn't include one. I assumed (I know ... my fault for assuming) that since it had a cable to connect it to the computer, you could scan slides directly to the computer. You can't. Without the $10 SD card, this unit is just a viewer. Once you have the scanner set up, operation is pretty smooth. Manually feed the slides through and press the scan button when you have each one lined up. After running a batch, tell it to transfer to the computer and it shows up as a flash drive you can copy the files from. It has some basic adjustments (resolution, brightness), but no flip or rotate, so you if you get a slide upside-down or rotated you either have to take the slide out and put it back in correctly or edit the image on your computer. Overall, it's a handy unit. It's pretty fast if you're just loading batches of slides. I had a bunch of old slides with handwritten dates, and in some cases labels. Since it won't scan directly to the computer (and it doesn't let you specify filenames), it became a process: Scan a set of slides, copy to computer, then go through each image and change the filename to include the date and/or label. One other minor complaint: If you set the date on the scanner, it will put that date on all the image files. Cool feature! But I was loading old family pictures from the 1970s and 1980s, and you can't set the date to that long ago. If the dates matter to you, you have to change them on the computer. Even still, I managed to load about 350 slides in 3 hours.

We have more than a thousand slides and color film negatives dating back to long before the BD (Before Digital) era. Up until now, getting them into the digital scrapbook has always been a total pain until one of our kids recommended the Kodak Film & Slide Scanner. Aside from its ease of use and excellent clarity, each kid – and grandkid – can have whatever photographic memories that they want, and can store it in their own cloud, disc, drive… whatever.

Great compact option for converting slides to digital format. The color and clarity is much better than a photo scanner I tried using. Its portability is also a bonus - you can save the digital files to an SD card (not included).