Pleasing results (part 2) Kodak Scanza 35mm slides 

It makes my heart so happy to see older individuals on RU-vid! Keep it up!!!!

My daughter gifted me the Kodak Scanza last Christmas so I can scan all of my mother's and grandmother's old 135mm slides and share them with family members. Your Part 1 and 2 videos have given me the confidence to give it a try! Thank you!

I like the way you say pleasing results. That is what many of us are looking for. They don't have to be the "best quality" especially when we have 20,000 to scan.

You are a fabulous teacher! Clear, concise & thorough. I too, am trying to digitize 50 years of slides! The Scanza manual was little help getting started. You came to the rescue & cleared all of my confusion. I have now started the process, and learning that I have a lot more to learn. Looking forward to more of your great teaching! Thank you!

Thank you so much for your videos about the Kodak Scanza. The manual is next to useless but your video is amazingly helpful.

Now I can sleep easier. Thank you for explaining the Scanza Digital Scanner. The instruction manual leaves a lot to be desired but your video cleared up a lot of my confusion. So, thank you again. 😊

I just bought a Scanza to view and share slides my dad took as far back as 1956 (when I was 6!). Thank you so much - this was the best series of youtube videos I could find.

Thank you and power to the older generation like us ! 👍😁👏👋 !

Based on your review, I bought the Kodak Scanza and really like it! Your detailed instructions were much better than the manual. Thank you!

I bought a Kodak Scanza to scan my parents slides. Thanks for the instructions! The manual is semi helpful!

Hi from Brazil, Mr. Anthony. Thank You for this review!

Thank you Anthony, I am encouraged by your detailed comments on this product. Thinking of buying one over here in England if I can get one, Tim

Thanks for the walk through, will be giving it a try.

Great to see you back Anthony! Another great review; I think I might be purchasing one of these now as I have a lot of slides I would love to digitise before they lose their quality.

This makes my day! Thank you for doing this!

Love this guy !!! You give me hope that I can figure these things out, as I love to do things with pictures & videos !!!!

Got my Skanza today. It's everything you said it would be. BTW: At 5:14, you show the file size to be in gigabytes and it should be megabytes. Great video.

Thank you, some common-sense tips were exactly what I was looking for.

REALLY nice job, Mr. Wheeler! Very clear and concise...your videos plus some additional research prompted me to order up a Scanza. After rewatching the video and reading the comments, it appears that a 14 megapixel scan comes in at ~1.5MB (lol, NOT GB!) and a 22 megapixel scan comes in at ~4.5MB, correct? If that's the case, then a 128GB card might be overkill for most folks. If I did my math right, on a 128GB card, you could save 85,000+ 14-megapixel scans and 22,000+ 22-megapixel scans. Unless someone was saving their own personal Library of Congress, a 16 or 32GB card might be a better option. ;-) Finally, those saved scans will be in JPEG format (as opposed to RAW or TIFF) and as such, there will be limited post-processing options. Although it appears the Scanza has some "built in" editing features (too "one size fits all", in my opinion), it seems to me that mounting the SD card with the saved scans in your computer, and then using a photo editor like Snapseed, Google Photos, etc. might be a better option to do some "tweaking". Not ALL the saved photos, mind you, but certainly the "best of the best". Cheers!

Fantastic video. Thank you so much.

Thank you, your instruction is very helpful.

Thanks..best wishes from Lithuania :-)

Great video's, nice review. Appreciate it Anthony, thank you.

Thanks, very informative and easy to understand! I subscribed, and look forward to more of your content

I own a Scanza, and have scanned over 500 color slides and a few black & white negatives. I rate it as pretty good. As a perfectionist, I guess I am looking for something more professional, but I don't know what to buy, so for the time being I am using the Scanza. I would not describe the scratch and dust removal as "miraculous" -- I am seeing very clear scratches on some scans that I would not expect to see if the software was really that good. Generally I am pleased with the overall performance, but one must understand that with very thin or very dense emulsions, it is not so great. The dynamic range is lacking -- details can be lost in very bright or dark portions of the transparency being scanned. For example, in a night shot where there is bright signage (letters on a white backlit sign), the scan shows a total whiteout -- you cannot read anything on the sign. If you hold the slide up to the light, you can clearly see there is lettering. On the scan, nothing, no matter how you adjust the brightness settings on the scanner. This problem is rare, but it does show the limitations of the scanner. I would rate the device 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Thank you!

Thank you, Sir. Great information

Hello. I am having my video tapes transferred to discs (I don’t know what they’re called) by iMemory. I think I will want to make edits on the discs. Is there any way to do that?

Good to see you Anthony, I'm thinking about getting one of these machines, but I think 1.4gb per photo seems a bit much, could you explain how much memory is on this device thanks.

Thanks for the great review. I have a lot of 16mm slides that are mounted in a standard 35mm cardboard mount. The 16mm negative is about 1/4 the size of a 35mm negative. Do you have any idea if the Scanza can digitize the 16mm slides?

Very helpful! Have a nice day and keep it up :)

This was really helpful! Thank you so much!

Excellent video. One question Anthony. I have a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED purchased years ago but just recently tried to use it on an old PC with Windows XP which is required for the enclosed software. It is very slow and the results not too good. Have you compared the results of the Kodak Scanza to the Nikon device? I know on your video you say the Kodak has resulted in the best results of other devices you have tried. Also, I understand there is scan software by third parties now available for the Coolscan that will run on Windows 10 and wondered if I would get better results with more modern software and which one you might recommend. Given the ease of using the Kodak Scanza and the apparent good results, I am inclined to buy one and put the Coolscan back on the shelf but since I have an investment in it, I might be willing to give it another try. Another question, can you recommend a photo processing software to enhance scanned slides or digital photos that is not too complicated to use? Thanks.

Is it easy to upload it to your iPhone and add dates so you can share it with family?

Thank you! You’re very awesome!!

Can you do a video on how to record DVD’s📀 to VHS📼?😕

can you tell us what type of cord you used to connect the scanza to the tv?

Thank you for the video. I think the sizes you put on screen (1.49GB and 4.4GB) are wrong. My apologies if I am wrong, but that seems very excessive. My assumption is that it should be megabyte not gigabyte.

Excellent.

Have you noticed any amount of digital noise (grain) added, especially in the shadow areas?

Thank you so much for this informative review. I am planning on getting a negative scanner and i want to use my photos for my own magazine i am creating. do you think the quality of the scanne dphotographs will be good enough for that? greetings from germany

Does it crop the image at all? Or do you get the entire area including the slide edges and corners? I have used the wolverine scanner and it crops the image slightly and also adds a lot of grain (digital noise)

Hi there. Thanks for the great video. I'm almost convinced to buy one of these, but have one question. I have a LOT of slides (not negs) to scan (about 15,000). Can you give me a ball-park estimate of how long it would take to scan 100 or 1000 slides ? Obviously you can't be exact, but it will help me decide to make a purchase, or not. If I want to make a color alteration to ALL slides (I've heard there tends to be a blue tint to the scans) can I set this and then have the correction work for all slides I scan ? Thanks.

Have you scanned 110 as well? The wolverine scanner stretches the image by about 20 percent. It can't retain the 110 film proportions. Thanks.

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