Review on 📸 KODAK SCANZA Digital Film & Slide Scanner: Convert 35mm, 126, 110, Super 8 & 8mm Film Negatives & Slides to JPEG with Tilt-Up 3.5" LCD, Easy-Load Film Inserts, Adapters & More! by Michael Crossman

GENERAL: I am a professional photographer and also own a small photo scanning and restoration business. So far I have not been able to find a 35mm slide/negative scanner that is affordable and produces fast, high quality scans. The ones you can still find that do high-quality scans are expensive ($6,500 for the Nikon 8000), have lame software, and more importantly, scans take a few minutes. It's almost impossible to scan hundreds (or more) slides this way, especially if you have to feed them manually. This Kodak Scanza is similar to several others on the market (notably the Wolverine F2D) but as I already own a high speed Kodak/Alaris pressure scanner I decided to give this one a try. It's really just a cheap digital camera set up for scanning, but that's exactly the concept I was looking for. Now if they made a higher quality device at a reasonable price I would be all for it. For now, this might be enough to produce mediocre consumer-quality images, but I'd wish for a better option with a sharper lens and at least a slightly higher resolution. Even better would be an automatic feed that scans a series of slides while you work on other things. (SlideSnap can do this, but uses old used Kodak projectors and can cost up to $4,000 for a full setup.) Pros: - Does a good job of scanning slides and negatives, but far from professional quality. - Fast scans (digital capture) in 1-2 seconds - Inexpensive. Cons: - Cheap plastic construction. Some adapters seem to break when you try to open them, so I don't know how long they will last. Although scanning is fast, you may not want to scan hundreds or thousands of slides. since you have to feed them by hand - Not too sharp images, but should work for prints up to about 8x10 from a sharp original slide or negative 3000. Not bad, but keep in mind these pixels aren't too sharp. I wouldn't use the built in interpolation up to 22MB as the quality and sharpness are slightly compromised. I recommend increasing the size if needed.