Kodak P460

Kodak P460 Personal Photo Scanner

Most scanners from Kodak are aimed at offices that need to scan documents, but a few - including the Kodak P460 Personal Photo Scanner ($109.99 direct) - are for consumer-level casual photographers who need to scan photos. The P460, Kodak's low-end entry in this second category, offers enough to qualify as a pleasant surprise. It scans both prints and 35mm film, and it does a much better job of it than you might expect for the price. It also chooses most of the settingsfor you automatically, which more serious photographers might find frustrating, but casual photographers will appreciate for how easy it makes scanning. Aside from its color, the P460 (which is manufactured by Pandigital and available on the Pandigital Web site) is nearly identical to the Pandigital Personal Photo & Negative Scanner/Converter PanScn05 ($99.99, 4 stars). The PanScn05 is white. The P460 is black. There are some other small differences, but the key word is small. Only the P460, for example, comes with Kodak EasyShare software, which lets you manage your photos as well as turn them into photo mugs, photo books, and other products you can buy from the Kodak Gallery Web site.