Kodak Mini Film Scanner. Photo by David Coleman - havecamerawilltravel.com

Scanning Old Negatives: My Experience with the KODAK Mini Film Scanner

Sending a shoebox full of old family negatives to a lab can get expensive fast, and pro-level desktop scanners are often overkill. The Kodak Mini Digital Film Scanner offers a cheap, dead-simple alternative. I ran a batch of vintage slides and film through one to see how it actually performs in practice. Here is a hands-on look at the workflow, the hardware quirks I ran into, and a gallery of completely unedited scans.