Wow. Made of cardboard. How does one adjust the distance between the phone and the slide/negative? Phones have lenses that have different fields of view so itās viral to fill the frame with the slide. Also itās viral to be able to hold the step of film in place securely.
Itās a hard pass for me.
Iāve bought all in one slide/film scanners for around $150 and theyāve been of unacceptable quality considering the time I spend ācleaningā and feeding in the slides and doing dust removal on the resulting scans.
IMHO itās not worth you trouble to scan your own slides/film if you donāt intend to spend the money on a slide/film scanner with an IR scanning stage that will allow software to quickly and accurately do dust and fiber removal automatically. Unfortunately those cost more than $300.
That said, with my plustek scanner Iām amazed with the amount of detail and dynamic range that can be recovered from the negatives. (All my shots from that era were snapshots from point and shots.) Indoor shots that were massively underexposed due to only ASA400 film bring available and the inability of the tiny flash to illuminate a large area were just fient outlines of detail in a grey blob on my 1hr prints, but had lots of recoverable detail when scanned and edited with modern photo software.
@bbf, I believe you meant to use the word āāvitalāā which means of great significance, not āāviralāā which has come to gain the meaning of something that has gathered great public interest or had spread quickly through the population (like a virus). That being said, anyone who thinks they can illuminate negatives (as pictured) and take pictures of them should be made aware that they will need a camera or software app to convert the negative image to the positive they want (in film to photo this is handled by the chemistry in the layers of paper.).
I donāt see any facility to hold slides (which are positives on film) - slides are seldom left as strips like what is shown in the pictures.
And with the poor mechanical construction this is one of those things that should never even have been offered for sale.
Different reasons than @bbf talks about but same result - definitely pass on this one.
Just curious ā¦ which Plustek do you have? Iām hoping to get a decent neg scanner - one not made out of cardboard- sometime in the future.
Well done on the write up @wootstaff! I like when they make me giggle.
wow nice item for ONLY $24!
AND its genuine cardboard!
Just think a tree gave a whole miniscule piece of a branch for this.
Iām sure it will work with my 1300 dollar s20 ultra just fineā¦
I just have to find the other 23 camera holes and the 2 for the sensorsā¦
The Nintendo labo kits are getting lamer.
You canāt knock this too hard. They call it a toy several times, and the cardboard construction clearly indicates itās not for professional results. Also, if you look through the product shots, there is a plastic insert to set the slidesā¦negatives slide through the middle of it.
That saidā¦it probably works pretty well for someone thatās not tech savvy and just has some old slides/negatives that they would like to see again, but have to desire to spend $$$ on a pro scanning, or to spend the moths that I spent converting and cleaning my family slides.
Look at it this way, for $20ish you get cellphone quality snaps of your old photos with minimal (comparatively speaking) effort. Looks like it would be perfect for those people that would otherwise not have the desire, skill or time to do it right.
Unless bbf is short for Ansel Adams, you should chill out. Says itās a toy, so expecting more is, well, childish.
Tray for slides is included. Also, an app is available for download to scan, edit, and scan. If I were a betting man, Iād wager that the app probably nullifies your negative/positive argument, too.
Yes, itās cardboard, hence the ātoyā designation. Theyāll let you know when the solar-powered, gluten-free, carbon fiber version is available.
Iām glad there are still people so full of themselves that they suck the joy out of everything around them.
Good lord, you must be a miserable old puss.
Wow. Just wow. I was intrigued when I first saw a Kodak negative scanner, and only $30. Now that I realize what this is (āfor entertainment onlyā, as those X-Ray glasses ads used to say), Iām just sad to think that Kodak, a great American company, founded in 1892, is reduced to slapping its name on thisāwhen its executives are not under an SEC probe for insider trading allegations.
The best kind of cardboard!
Technically, this isnāt a āfilm scannerā anyway. Itās a cheap [i.e. quality] backlight. Your phone does the actual scanning.
Anyone who even knows what slides are, probably has a slide projector (I have two) and would be better off projecting the image on the wall and shooting it from there than using this thing. Probably get better qualityā¦
Iāve got an Plustek 8200i, itās a bit slow, but gets the job done. Itās a bit expensive, but if you have to scan a few hundred negatives/slides, itās worth considering.
@TheJarOKnowledge, yeah, āvitalā was what I meant, it was a typo.
@steelbreeze10 if it was less than $10, itād be a toy. Not at they price that Kodakās asking for it.
Kodak makes crappy stuff, and banks on the name. Itās definitely NOT meant to be a toy. Itās meant to rip people off. (not Woot, but Kodak, I think the buyers at Woot didnāt know any better and thought it was actually half decent. Things made out of cardboard can be decent.)
Edit: Also please tell me what child considers āscanning slides and negativesā a game that theyād like to play? āHey Timmy, stop playing with that bag oā broken glass, and play letās digitize a bunch of negatives for Uncle Bobā. 
Yeah, my scannerās made of plasticā¦ which you know what? Toys are also made out of plastic. So by your logic, everything made of plastic must be a toy too. Brilliant!
Also, donāt be such a buzzkill. Youāre being all Mr. Negative while criticizing me for being negative. Wow, so much hypocrisy.
Thanks!
I heard a scandalous rumor that companies who make products sell those products to retailers AND THEY BOTH TRY TO MAKE A PROFIT.
What a crazy idea.
Even though everything on the internet is true I donāt really believe in Woot.
Nice Christmas outfit!
Hmm if they made it out of plastic as suggested above they would only increase the production cost by only a dollar if that.
The other 27.50 would be used to help the corporate economy!
Do we really need to make stuff out of plastic thatās going to last 5 minutes before people get bored and throw it away?