Kodak Advantix Film Drive FD 300 Pass-Through Scanner

Pros: Quick, easy set up
Cons: A little expensive unless you NEED this toy

I absolutely love my APS cameras and have dozens of film cassette holders full of film cartridges to prove it. They take great photos in 3 different formats. The problem was that I was suddenly getting hip to web page design and wanted an easier way to...

Pros: Quality Scans that can be printed out digitally.
Cons: Noise, Software, Drivers, Win2000? or WinME?, $Price$.

I purchased the Kodak FD300 film drive around Nov. 2000. I was excited to buy one, because I love a lot of my Advantix pictures, but didn't want to have to pay for reprints to be made. I also wanted to post photos on the internet, and it looks like...

Pros: Easy to use, good scanning results
Cons: Noisy, not that great scanning software

I have been using Kodak Film Drive for couple of months and have been positively surprised by its ease of use and good scanning results. You should note that it can scan in only APS films, so if you have an ordinary camera, you can't use the Film...

Pros: Inexpensive, good software bundle, easy install, good quality low and medium resolution scans
Cons: High resolution mode produces poor scans, unit overheats with repeated high resolution scanning, scanning takes over computer

Kodak's FD 300 APS film scanner is intended to be an inexpensive, single purpose scanner that easy delivers high-quality output from developed APS cartridges. And, while being inexpensive (less than $250 from some outlets), and able to produce some...

Pros: Digital quality at analog price
Cons: weak bundled software

I never owned a camera of any type until APS came on the scene. I thought about going straight to digital - but the FD 300 makes any APS camera better and when announced, Kodak made the choice clear to me. I love this product - it has made getting...

Pros: Inexpensive, Good quality images
Cons: Limited OS support, loud

The Kodak FD300 is an APS film scanner. The quality of the images scanned is great. The new upgraded software for batch processing of film is a needed improvement. Also it is a steal compared to the prices of the other APS film scanners. The draw backs...

Pros: cheap, better than flatbed, only need developed film no prints
Cons: win9x only, better scanners available, had some fails, old product.

I've had this scanner for two years and scanned many rolls
of APS film. Down side is it only works with Kodak's own software for Win9x (I use Win98SE) but they do have nice fast scanning software still available from kodak.com.
It creates...

Pros: * Ease of use (once setup). * Batch scanning. * Colour rendition. * Good resolution.
Cons: * Works only on windows 98 or 98SE * Has some quirks.

Despite its quirks and annoyances (see below), it works very well. I'm chuffed to bits to resurrect these images into modern Photo editing applications! The unit along with the quick scanning software does a pretty fantastic job of scanning APS ...

Pros: if i have Xp as operating system 
Cons: if i have Xp as operating system 

if i have Xp as operating system  can i use kodak advantix film drive  fd 300? if no i would like to get more information about else can i use.