Is Kogan 5-in-1 Combo Scanner $179.00 a Good Photo Scanner?

ego22 on 25/04/2018 - 15:15
Last edited 25/04/2018 - 15:49 by 1 other user

We have a lot of old photos and negatives around the house. Also my girlfriend has a lot of old photos in the Philippines that I want saved. I just wanted to know if this is a good scanner and not just some Chinese crap.

I need both a photo and negative scanner and saving right to SD card is a plus. The DPI on this is only 1800. I don't know of that's a lot or not but I know some flat bed scanners have a much higher DPI. It has a lot of reviews but a lot of them seem faked or generated.

Should I get a flat bed scanner and a separate negative scanner or would this be good for old photos?

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  retiredfeline on 25/04/2018 - 15:50

  +1

  Save yourself frustration with the poor quality results and get a decent brand scanner like Epson. In this case their Perfection series scanners do both negatives and slides. Their software also handles media warp, colour correction, backlight compensation mostly automatically. You'll need a PC to connect it to which is even better than transferring by SD cards.

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  bobbified on 25/04/2018 - 16:57

  +3

  Collect them all and take them to a big camera store to get a quote for a one off session to scan everything.

  Might be much cheaper than buying some random piece of equipment that you dont know much about.

  After you scan all this, you'll probably never use it again.

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    resisting the urge on 25/04/2018 - 17:59

    +1 Even decent scanners area massive frustration. Fine for a few rolls, but anything else takes ages, even if you can lay them into strips 6 ata a time or feed an entire roll of film in (if that's how you have it)

    Pay someone who needs the work instead of land-filling more junk that fails to live up to consumer expectations

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  jasperthegoat on 26/04/2018 - 00:32

  If you do decide to get it, get it from Dicksmith instead it's cheaper.