The Kodak Scanza Digital Film Scanner serves a purpose. We’re often advocates of getting digital images off of our hard drives and gadgets, and printing them into the real world where they can ...

Taking a physical photo and turning into a digital images requires a special touch. To do it well, you’ll need a quality photo scanner that can match your desired outcome. When considering speed and ...

Update on April 28, 2014: Lomography announced that a new app is now available for the Film Scanner. The LomoScanner 2 offers “faster and more streamlined scanning experience,” the company says. The ...

Although still a budget-friendly scanner, the Kodak Slide N Scan Digital Film Scanner takes a different approach to the slightly less expensive Kodak Scanza. The main upside is a larger screen.

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The best photo scanners provide reliable results for the desired purpose, whether that’s quickly digitizing boxes of 4-by-6 inch prints, scanning old film or negatives or scanning snapshots to share ...

To make high-quality scans from 35mm film, you need a dedicated film scanner. But while flatbed-scanner prices have been in free fall for several years, film-scanner prices have remained in the realm ...

Scanning film is great for archival purposes as well as sharing said photos digitally. However, if you’re scanning 120 film, aka medium format, it can be expensive to get the requisite hardware. 35mm ...

Flatbed scanners do a great job on prints and other paper-based art and a decent job on medium- or large-format film. But if you want to scan 35mm or APS film (and wind up with a print that’s bigger ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Scanners normally come in three flavors: flatbed, film and ...

In the 1930s, as an alternative to celluloid, some Japanese companies printed films on paper (kami firumu), often in color and with synchronized 78 rpm record soundtracks. Unfortunately, between the ...

Unless you were born after 1990, chances are good that you’ve got a shoebox (or seven) filled with photos, slides, and negatives from the good old days of film photography. You’d probably enjoy having ...