Aps Film Scanner

I used the Kodak Mobile Film Scanner to scan my color negatives into my collection of pictures. I have the prints but laying them out on my MFD printer/scanner was tedious and hard to get the pictures lined up right. It was much easier, and less physical, and about four times faster to run my negatives through the Kodak Mobile Film Scanner. The Kodak phone app is well thought out and works well with the little scanner box. The app provides several useful imaging tools to fine-tune the image once you've scanned it. But the image quality it produces is good to begin with. I found that all I used was the image cropping. I wouldn't call the user interface intuitively obvious, but it is easy to figure out. I am very pleased with this purchase. It has made it much easier to get many more of my original film pictures onto my hard drive.

Film holders are amazing. You’ll see complaints about them being dust magnets, but just get a rocket blower and take your time. The scanner itself is lovely build quality - the scanner results are as good as your going to get anywhere without spending thousands more. It’s the scanner almost any photo lab is going to use when scanning your 35, 120 or 4x5 film. Unless you pay for a drum scan. The bundled software is absolutely killer. Epsom scan does a fine job for quick scans and SilverFast is absolutely insane for really fine tuning finer scans. The latter having stellar dust and scratch removal for both color and black and white. I mainly shoot BW film - develop at home - print at home so this was the final piece of the puzzle for me keeping it all in house. Absolutely worth the investment.

If you’re scanning large format sheet film. This scanner is your best friend!

I have a scanner which had a 6 frame film tray, but I think having a strip of 5's is better so it allow me to have some space to adjust so I went with this one.

exactly what i needed, great scanner with everything i needed to scan film. it is a bit slow however.

Use it to blow dust off film negatives and the scanner surface before scanning.

used in tripod aps

I have had the Epson's in the past for flat bed, but my dedicated film scanner was dead and needed a new solution. Looked at dedicated film scanners again but to add the capability of 120 took the price point wait out. I read the reviews on teh V750 and decided to get the V850 (newer model) I was not disappointed at all. First thing I did was compare scans from V850 to my old dedicated film, I was pretty upset at the results. I have to rescan everything I did on the old film, it's that much better. That was using just the epson default software to scan. Once I tested the difference between SilverFast and the Epson software, it clintched it that I would be rescanning everything I've ever done using the the SilverFast on the V850... I then did a quick couple scans on the 120. once again I was not let down, the V850 handles it. The film holders are not perfect, but as I tested on 6x6,6x7 and 6x4.5 I realized why they are the way they are... I recommend this to anyone who needs a scanner... but even more who need one for every use. Attached is photo of V850 compared to old Canon FS4000 film scanner.

This is my second one, would buy again, a best buy at that price, used on crop (aps-c).

I've been an 'ardent amateur' photographer for the last 40 years, starting out with film cameras in the 1980s, and have multiple thousands of negatives and slides. Let me say don't let Silverfast 8 software be your only decision point to not buy this scanner! The scanner has performed flawlessly---I've been able to digitalize my old film negatives and slides with great, professional results. The Silverfast software is not always intuitive and it takes a little bit of work to conquer their learning curve, but once I became familiar with how it functions it was no more difficult than other software I've worked with and it produces excellent results. The other issue is that the scanner ( just as other scanners) can be a bit slow, depending on the settings you choose and the reproduction quality you're after. I look forward to passing many old images on to our daughter and her family as heirloom memories, so I'm willing to take the extra time to get the best quality possible. That said, images reproduced at lower dpi are still excellent. Yes, I would definitely buy this scanner again!