Daniel Green
August 8, 2025
My dad had an old Kodak projector, and as an adult I too went with Kodak for my slides. This all predates digital cameras by several decades. I consider myself an advanced amature photgrapher as evidenced by wins at several local photo club competions, several county fair competitions, and took a first place and a 4th place in ASHI Pentax's 1968 World Photo Contest, after which they claimed had it drew over 600,000 entries.After accumulating nearly 8,000 slides, I needed to consolidate the volume of storage for my dozens of 3" X 12" X 12" carousels; I added a Bell & Howell "Cube" system. The B&H offerred the capability of housing 640 slides within the same "footprint" space as my Kodak which maxed out at 140 slides/tray. The Cube held 40 slides with 16 cubes in a box comparible to my Kodak carousels. My brother went with a Sawyer vertical carousel system, but he always had difficulty of jams and fought with his projector at every family slide show marathon.I have moved many times over the years and even though I still had my Kodak, the lenses and parts finally couldn't take it any more and it wasn't worth maintaining. So, I was stuck with the Cube system. I found the cube system's only advantage was "space", as all other attributes paled in comparison to my original Kodak. With the Cube, all the slides are stuck in order and are extremely difficult to change out or sort, difficult to find a specific slide, are difficult to load into the cube and are slow to advance to the next slide to be presented. The system was always much noisery than my Kodak.I've changed over to digital photography and wanted to edit and cull out meaningless slides and then to digitize several thousand "keepers" while retaining the original film slides. I just couldn't do any of this with the Cube system. I searched the internet and was quite surprised to find on Amazon, some Kodak's [still brand new] available. I purchased the 4600 at a great price, and am extremely happy. It has precision smooth operation, is quiet, has dual light levels, and you can easily pull out a special slide. I can't say enough that Kodak maintained the superior design and workmanship throughout the life of the 35 mm slide era. Bravo and thanks Kodak. I am now digitizing with ease, and know that I won't part with my Kodak slides...my kids will have to part with it some day, but not me. PS, I've also had 3 generations of Kodak Digital cameras as well as my Pentax and parallel comparison to my daughter's Cannon Digital SLR Rebel. The Kodak's have served me well on two industrial construction projects taking over 16,000 images, and still compete with anyone up to 10 Megapixil. I only miss the great light and fine focus - great depth of field available with an f1.4 50mm lense.
Caren
April 14, 2025
Projector was exactly as advertised. It was in like new condition and well packaged. It works very smoothly. We even got an extra bulb. I was so pleased, I ordered the carousels from the same company. I am now busy organizing the family slides.
Em
January 9, 2025
I spoke with the owner of Slide Central. Mr. Bill Riggins, when we were not able to view individual slides using the holder that attaches in place of the carousel. It was a pleasure to speak with Mr. Riggins, he is a true professional. He politely advised that it was likely the projector itself, not the individual slide holder/adaptor, but I still went ahead and ordered another holder. Unfortunately the individual slides would not feed through the new adaptor smoothly and I had to accept that the projector needed replacing. I put off buying the new projector for three years, but I knew exactly where I planned to order from: Slide Central. Needless to say, the new projector worked flawlessly and came in a sturdy case with compartments for extra bulbs. We are grateful to Slide Central for their service!