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I brought a new slide scanner when I was bored last week after seeing the positive reviews on YouTube.. Kodak Slide and scan...very easy to use and nice and small...however it appears to have built in ICE type slide cleaning..Results have been mixed so far..Some images are great, others come out a bit over done.Need to work out if I can change the settings, but that means reading up on it

Anyway, here are a few examples of the results from K64 slides.It does, Colour and B+W negs 135, 110, 126 and slides too. Its main positive point is how quick it is...

1, Mirage F1 at Upper Heyford.
73_MirageF1C_30-SM_EC30_UpperHeyford_KevinWills-IMAG0046 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

2, Greek F-5 at Larissa.
38405_F-5A_HAF_Larissa_KevinWills_IMAG0078 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

3, Greek Mirage F1 at Tanagra.
121_MirageF1CG_HAF_Tanagra_KevinWills_IMAG0063 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

4,Polish Lim2 at Katowice.
266_Lim2_Katowice_KevinWills_IMAG0025 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

5, also at Katowice.
510_Mig17_Katowice_KevinWills_IMAG0024 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

6, Mig21 Katowice again.
022_Mig21_Katowice_KevinWills_IMAG0023 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

7, TS-11 Katowice.
902_TS-11_Iskra_Katowice_KevinWills_IMAG0022 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

8, Caribou at Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Spain.
T.9.11_T.9.12_Caribou_CuatroVientos_KevinWills_IMAG0049 by KdoubleU2017, on Flickr

Interested to here if anyone else has experience with this budget scanner...Hope they were of interest...

Cheers,

Kev W.

Nice shots, thanks for sharing these with us. The Greek machines stand out, I can think of someone who will love the Northrop in particular.

Results look good to me, which is more than I can say for the paintwork on that Polish MiG!

Nice ones Kevin.

The new scanner has done a really good job on KR64s, something I've really struggled with using Silverfast and a Nikon Coolscan V... Hmmm.

What's the overdone with ICE look like... with Silverfast it eats into the edges of blacks using the KR64 profile.

Are these straight form the scan or did you do some additional work after the scan?

Thanks for sharing

Kev

Hi Kev

They’ve come out brilliant, imho

You’ll need to keep putting some more up now, to keep us happy

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Nice shots especially the F1s

Yes, ICE will have a detrimental effect of Kodachrome scans. Even so, you have managed to produce so good results

They look great to me! I have played with Canon & Plustek kit & whilst the results have been okay, it's the time element that's killing it?

If, as KeBul asks these are 'as they come-out' then the results are more than acceptable to me. Please confirm if you chose the Kodak RODFS50
or RODFS70? There are some good deals at this time.

Nowt wrong with those.

Amazing collection of rare gems, wow

Some nice shots there Kev

Sparky 119 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:45 pm

Some nice shots there Kev

Thanks Steve

ciaranchef wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:35 pm

Amazing collection of rare gems, wow

Cheers

Blue Diamond wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:49 am

Nowt wrong with those.

Thanks

Supra wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:46 am

They look great to me! I have played with Canon & Plustek kit & whilst the results have been okay, it's the time element that's killing it?

If, as KeBul asks these are 'as they come-out' then the results are more than acceptable to me. Please confirm if you chose the Kodak RODFS50
or RODFS70? There are some good deals at this time.

Yes, they are pretty much as they come off. albeit cropping and levelling and the occasional marks removed...Mine is the RODFS50...HTH

Ridge Runner wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:47 am

Yes, ICE will have a detrimental effect of Kodachrome scans. Even so, you have managed to produce so good results

Thanks

matt e wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:42 am

Nice shots especially the F1s

Cheers

paddyboy wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:38 am

Hi Kev

They’ve come out brilliant, imho

You’ll need to keep putting some more up now, to keep us happy

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Thanks Paddy

KeBul wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:36 pm

Nice ones Kevin.

The new scanner has done a really good job on KR64s, something I've really struggled with using Silverfast and a Nikon Coolscan V... Hmmm.

What's the overdone with ICE look like... with Silverfast it eats into the edges of blacks using the KR64 profile.

Are these straight form the scan or did you do some additional work after the scan?

Thanks for sharing

Kev

Pretty much as they come off, very little done to them.

F3 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:55 pm

Results look good to me, which is more than I can say for the paintwork on that Polish MiG!

ha ha yes indeed

Mustang531 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:27 pm

Nice shots, thanks for sharing these with us. The Greek machines stand out, I can think of someone who will love the Northrop in particular.

Cheers.

These are fantastic. I have the ame model and my results are no where near as good - probably due to my original slides not being great either! Maybe I need to see if there are other settings but thought I had it set up right.

Anyway looking forward to possible future posts from you.

Nothing wrong with the quality of the scans. Also noth much wrong with the subjects you picked..
Love to see some more

Hi Kev, some very nice scans there mate, especially if they're from Kodachrome. Which software do you use with your scanner? A very common product that normally comes with scanners is Silverfast. It's a little bit like marmite, some are quite content to use this programme, but there are just as many users who hate it. There are alternatives out there, personally I use Vuescan myself, it has much better tools and is quite amicable with most scanners. I sourced this from a facebook site; https://www.facebook.com/groups/1102434186467646 which is also pretty useful.

Very nice Kev, some very nice scans.

Thank you for the review and the nice pictures

Great scans Kev - nothing wrong with those! Thanks for posting and look forward to more