Got boxes of old film just sat gathering dust? A film scanner such as Kodak’s Scanza, can be ideal for digitizing your old film or family photos and breathe new life into them.
The best slide to digital image converters should turn your old analogue film into a quality and high resolution digital file, giving you plenty of options for how you want to process and share your newly converted digital images.
The Scanza is made by Kodak and has a respectable maximum resolution of 14MP (can be interpolated up to 22MP) and is compatible with a wide range of films, such as 35mm, 126, 110, Super 8 and 8mm negatives.
In this review we dusted off some old 50mm color slides, 135 B&W film and 110 color negatives to put the Scanza through its paces to see how it performed and if you should buy one if you’re looking to digitize your old film and slides.
Kodak’s Scanza has dimensions of 4.7x4.7x5” and is about the same size and shape as a small flowerpot. While it’s not the smallest digital scanner we’ve reviewed (Kenro’s KNSC201 was just 3.4x3.4x4”) the Kodak Scanza boasts a wider compatibility of film and has an articulating screen too.
It comes boxed with no less than three adapter trays and three additional inserts, making the Scanza perfectly equipped to deal with 35mm, 126, 110, Super 8 and 8mm negatives. While it's great to be able to scan such a wide breadth of film varieties, the adapter system does mean you end up with lots of plastic loading trays that you need to store somewhere safe when not in use, so you'd have to be careful not to misplace or break them.