Stealth3kpl Posted January 11, 2018 Share #1 Posted January 11, 2018 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) https://www.kodak.com/us/es/Consumer/Products/Accessories/scanza-film-scanner/default.htm it doesn't look very promising :-( Pete Edited January 11, 2018 by Stealth3kpl 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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105012 Posted January 11, 2018 Share #2 Posted January 11, 2018 It's encouraging to see them recognise the need, even if this is not the best solution. I wrote to them a year or so ago suggesting they produce a modernised Pakon F135 (I have the + version, wonderful machine) and got a negative reply. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko.Fe. Posted January 12, 2018 Share #3 Posted January 12, 2018 Looks close to something available for some time and for less: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1317895-REG/wolverine_data_f2dtitan_8_in_1_film_to_digital.html 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemgb Posted January 12, 2018 Share #4 Posted January 12, 2018 https://www.kodak.com/us/es/Consumer/Products/Accessories/scanza-film-scanner/default.htm it doesn't look very promising :-( Pete Reviews on similar items are generally pretty awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkassenkunde Posted January 12, 2018 Share #5 Posted January 12, 2018 This is something for the Lomo-crowd... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 12, 2018 Share #6 Posted January 12, 2018 I got something similar from the Aldi for € 19,95 years ago. Only useful for doing slides on a TV at family gatherings - something I never do. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted January 12, 2018 Share #7 Posted January 12, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) This is very disappointing. You'd think Kodak might realize by now that film needs a full range of supportive services to keep it flourishing. So developing and releasing a professional-level scanner was something I was hoping they might be working on. This definitely isn't it. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 12, 2018 Share #8 Posted January 12, 2018 I bought something like this in a local store some years ago and it was useless, but so too is my Canon flat bed scanner. Nikon are to introduce a slide/negative adaptor that will work with my 60mm Micro Nikkor and D800E. I will purchase that as soon it comes out. I believe that it will be about the same cost as the Kodak device. William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted January 12, 2018 Share #9 Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) Pete, always good to take in this period of invasion by the digitalbut I liked in Tiff not in Jpeg, 22 MP is not bad Thanks Pete for the news , it reminds me of the time when we both opened a thread in Leica Users Forum (LUF) not LF dedicated to the scanner Best Henry Edited January 12, 2018 by Doc Henry 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ricoh Posted January 12, 2018 Share #10 Posted January 12, 2018 Looks like one step up from a toy. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted January 12, 2018 Share #11 Posted January 12, 2018 Said it before - for web purposes and prints to 10x8, you don't have to have anything fancier than a Pacific Image PrimeFilm scanner (I have one that claims 3650dpi, which is doubtful, and I see they are now up to 10,000dpi, which is hilarious). Nonetheless, it produces scans that are fairly subtle in their differences to those from my Konica-Minolta, Nikon and Flextight scanners. I bet someone could buy and use one of these to post in our photo forums and no one would ever be able to tell the difference. C. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted January 12, 2018 Share #12 Posted January 12, 2018 Never forget the vast market that is simply non-photographers trying to digitalize their collected family snap-shots (or parents' or grandparents' family snapshots) from the negs or slides. 4x6 or Web quality adequate, direct-to-jpgs a plus (not LR users, possibly not even computer users these days (except Smartphones - into which they can plug the SD card). A lot less expensive than even cheap lab scans, if you have a couple of hundred to simply "store". 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted January 12, 2018 Share #13 Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) I appreciate Adan's comment. All my family would, too because they are all Instamatic-types. Really. There is an obscure philosophy in there somewhere - my family of very bright innovators and scholars are entirely uninterested in elaborating photo representations. Sometimes it breaks my heart, and eventually I laugh . The most important perspective is the long view. Regarding the subject: Me, I am lost at sea regarding scanning because all I do with film today is 6x10cm and larger, so that puts me outside of the Leica concern - unless they engage Sinar somehow. Fat chance. Edited January 12, 2018 by pico 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemgb Posted January 13, 2018 Share #14 Posted January 13, 2018 Never forget the vast market that is simply non-photographers trying to digitalize their collected family snap-shots (or parents' or grandparents' family snapshots) from the negs or slides. 4x6 or Web quality adequate, direct-to-jpgs a plus (not LR users, possibly not even computer users these days (except Smartphones - into which they can plug the SD card). A lot less expensive than even cheap lab scans, if you have a couple of hundred to simply "store". This is true, I recently scanned 1400 slides for my father in law, many people simply want an image that looks good on a phone screen, I'm sure this scanner is more than capable of that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted January 13, 2018 Share #15 Posted January 13, 2018 Never forget the vast market that is simply non-photographers trying to digitalize their collected family snap-shots (or parents' or grandparents' family snapshots) from the negs or slides. 4x6 or Web quality adequate, direct-to-jpgs a plus (not LR users, possibly not even computer users these days (except Smartphones - into which they can plug the SD card). A lot less expensive than even cheap lab scans, if you have a couple of hundred to simply "store". I guess I'm wrong about the scale of this market, but by its very nature it doesn't grow Kodak's future sales beyond the immediate revenue from these machines. If they're used to scan old film, and then probably a high proportion of them sold on through craigslist to other users who also have a finite amount of old film to digitize for grandma, then the rest of the Kodak ecosystem doesn't gain much in the long-term. As opposed to developing and selling a scanner aimed at active buyers of film. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted January 13, 2018 Share #16 Posted January 13, 2018 I doubt Kodak have invested anything in this device other than perhaps attend a trade fair and signed up to have 'Kodak' printed on it. But I don't know why you are all so sniffy about it, the market it's aimed at is clear and it's not the 'The Leica Forum'. A cheap and cheerful scanner is exactly the thing Kodak need for somebody who doesn't fall into the 'serious photographer' mould. They see Kodak are selling film again, they find the slides in the attic and what's that in the corner, hey its a camera, they buy another roll of Kodak. And now with a crappy scanner they can digitise away all day, but it isn't crappy to them, it's magic seeing Aunty Vera again thirty years after she was put into a box (her photo that is). 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EoinC Posted January 14, 2018 Share #17 Posted January 14, 2018 I agree with the positive comments. It’s not for me, but I could see my daughter wanting it for posting on whatever it is that she posts on. My hope is that Kodaks forays into scanners and bitcoins isn’t getting in the way of production of Ektachrome, which is now overdue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semi-ambivalent Posted January 14, 2018 Share #18 Posted January 14, 2018 I appreciate Adan's comment. All my family would, too because they are all Instamatic-types. Really. There is an obscure philosophy in there somewhere - my family of very bright innovators and scholars are entirely uninterested in elaborating photo representations. Sometimes it breaks my heart, and eventually I laugh . The most important perspective is the long view. You know as well as I do memory and the heart are quite capable of filling in any missing empirical information. The rest is just icing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
james.liam Posted January 14, 2018 Share #19 Posted January 14, 2018 It's encouraging to see them recognise the need, even if this is not the best solution. I wrote to them a year or so ago suggesting they produce a modernised Pakon F135 (I have the + version, wonderful machine) and got a negative reply. Kodak's systemic absence of imagination persists still, and is why they find themselves a pitiable shadow of their once-mighty self. With renewed interest in analog amongst a younger demographic, you'd think they might see an opportunity just as the new owners of Polaroid have. Kodak now appears more focused on the exciting worlds of cryptocurrency and licensing their marque for batteries, coffee cups and T shirts. Dumbasses. WADR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted January 15, 2018 Share #20 Posted January 15, 2018 some more infos here https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/205842-i-like-filmopen-thread/?p=3440658 H. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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