The Kodak Scanza is also a easy, non-professional picture scanner. It communicates out the Kodak logo, however, does not have any affiliation with all Kodak Alaris, the firm bringing Kodak T-Max P3200 and Ektachrome.
Kodak Scanza film scanner Key features :
Tilting 3.5" LCD
SD card slot
Video out, HDMI and USB connectivity
Works with: 35mm, 126, 110, Super 8 and 8mm formats
Tilting 3.5" LCD
SD card slot
Video out, HDMI and USB connectivity
Works with: 35mm, 126, 110, Super 8 and 8mm formats
What is included
Opening the box you're greeted with HDMI, USB and video out cables, an AC adapter, user guide, the scanner (in bubble wrap below), a toothbrush shaped face cleaner along with a handful of plastic film holders. Pretty much everything is plastic and feels a little cheap in its construction quality.
Opening the box you're greeted with HDMI, USB and video out cables, an AC adapter, user guide, the scanner (in bubble wrap below), a toothbrush shaped face cleaner along with a handful of plastic film holders. Pretty much everything is plastic and feels a little cheap in its construction quality.
Format compatibility
Concerning picture format versatility, the Scanza is... okay. There is no choice for medium format, even though you can scan 35mm, 110, and 126 formats as well as 8mm/Super 8. The 8mm/Super 8 choice is misleading, though. This isn't for scanning a whole reel of 8mm film, that is specially for scanning individual frames of 8mm or Super 8 slides.
Concerning picture format versatility, the Scanza is... okay. There is no choice for medium format, even though you can scan 35mm, 110, and 126 formats as well as 8mm/Super 8. The 8mm/Super 8 choice is misleading, though. This isn't for scanning a whole reel of 8mm film, that is specially for scanning individual frames of 8mm or Super 8 slides.
In use
The greatest thing the Scanza has going for it is ease-of-use. Even in case you've never watched movie before, you may expect to be ready to go in around 10 minutes.
The greatest thing the Scanza has going for it is ease-of-use. Even in case you've never watched movie before, you may expect to be ready to go in around 10 minutes.
To run it, plug into the energy (the scanner uses a widely accessible micro-USB into USB cable for electricity ) either to an AC socket or your computer, add an SD card (that is where scans are stored ), press the power button, then select your film form, load the holder by means of your picture, insert it and then press the capture button. Done. Scanning takes just a couple of seconds per negative/slide.
If you are plugged in to the wall and the 3.5" LCD feels too little to view your pictures, don't worry: Along with the Micro-USB, you have Video-out and HDMI-mini ports (cables included to either ) so that you are able to view your scans onto a TV or monitor screen. This extra connectivity feels like a bit of an unnecessary attribute, but I'm not going to rely from the Scanza because connecting it to your TV reminded me of employing a slide projector and that's the very Kodak thing relating to this item.
The scanner is 14MP however provides a 22MP scan option that interpolates the images along with ups the resolution out of 4320x2880 pixels to 5728x3824 pixels. In use, we discovered the 22MP mode entirely unnecessary. (Prosumer scanners such as the Nikon CoolScan 9000 along with Epson V-series adapt TIFF and DNG workflows, giving your film scans a lot of editing flexibility). Also, the scanning region finishes up slightly cropping your photographs, largely horizontally - in case you're a perfectionist, this might disturb you.
When scanning you've got the choice to perform color adjustments including Brightness, Red, Green, and Blue levels, according to a random scale of -3 to +3. In analyzing, only +1/-1 on at least one of these scales has been too extreme a switch to be used effectively. Unless your movie is severely expired and has a significant color shift, I would avoid these configurations to keep your scans as precise as you can.
Bottom Line
This isn't a bad solution, it is just an overpriced one to exactly what it really is. For similar cash, you can invest in a decent flatbed scanner with film trays - like the Epson V550 - which provides higher-quality scans and increased flexibility, but in the cost of speed and ease-of-use.
This isn't a bad solution, it is just an overpriced one to exactly what it really is. For similar cash, you can invest in a decent flatbed scanner with film trays - like the Epson V550 - which provides higher-quality scans and increased flexibility, but in the cost of speed and ease-of-use.
For those simply wishing to make digital copies of decades of photos, the Scanza is a decent alternative. But we have difficulty thinking it's much better than this comparable option with no Kodak label, priced half as much.