74images Loc: Los Angeles, California

He's been on for about 6 Months, he's got no way on Knowing!

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74images Loc: Los Angeles, California

He Forgot People Join this Site (UHH) Every Damn Day, & they have no way in Knowing that these Subjects are Mentioned Once in A while!

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neco Loc: Western Colorado Mountains

I have the Epson V300 and it does a good job with 35mm slides and negative strips.

APSICON

You might consider buying the Epson V600 scanner. It scans both slides and negatives and the price has come down since Epson has come out with a new model. It's well worth buying. I've been using mine for several years. It is very user friendly.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Soooo true.

hj Loc: Florida

I suppose it matters which model one uses - there are many. I had no problem and totally liked the fast conversion.

JoeM845

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akretiree Loc: Anchorage

Graham1949 Loc: Nottingham, England.

I use Wolverine F2D Super+ unit, and find it easy to use with great results. However If you want professional results "it's going to cost you".
Good luck.

bw79st Loc: New York City

I think the Epson V600 is a good choice. I have a V700 that does a good job. I normally scan my slides on a Canoscan FS4000 film/slide scanner but have tried my V700 and was pleased with the results. The main advantage is that the V600 and 700 can load 12 slides at a time whereas the Canoscan does 4 at a time. Nevertheless I feel the dedicated film/slide scanner is capable of a sharper scan. If you are doing very detailed scans on the Canon it can take 5 minutes per slide, so four per load is tedious. I think what makes for a good work flow is using Vuescan Pro which is well worth the price. It works with virtually any scanner and allows you to scan to any file format. I save my photo scans as DNG files, something that Epson or Canon software won't do AFAIK. It will let you scan at the highest level possible from your scanner, or anything lower than that. BTW, it doesn't matter if your scanner is USB2 as the time saved is miniscule. The real time spent is in doing the actual scan which has nothing to do with sending it to your computer.

I'm at the point where the scanner gets used everyday to save documents. Vuescan has the ability to save unlimited setups for different types of jobs. I have a setup that I called PDF Documents.ini that does B&W paper to an 8x11 size that I save for tax purposes. I scan every piece of paper that comes in as long as it involves money spent and keep it in the current year's folder. If audited I could bury them in a blizzard of paper. Doing this means just an investment of a couple of minutes each evening.

Scanning your own slides will give you an intensive course in proper technique. Unfortunately, you may find that when you finish you decide you have learned so much that it is worth your while to start over! If you do that, save your first efforts and give them to someone in the family as a backup! Go for the best quality and you won't be disappointed!

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

I have had great results from ScanCafe in Lafayette, cA. I had them digitize about 400 slides. Then gave them 200 old photographs from before WWII. They did a great job both times and did some restoration of the old B&Ws. (Many of these were from the 1920s and 30s. I could almost still smell hypo on some. And the price was right.

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

If they're valuable to you, buy an Epson flatbed scanner that handles negatives & do them yourself.
Time consuming but you get out what you put in.
I've done hundreds with an Epsom V500. Later models now, V550 or V600, but they do all sorts of negs.
Very flexible with resolution, which is great for worthwhile images, for editing.
The little slide converters are limited in what can be done, rubbish IMHO. Spend a few dollars & do a job to your satisfaction & still have your money's worth of scanner.

Siena Loc: Rocky Hill, CT

Thank you to ALL who offered guidance on my question about digitizing my slides. I got a great detailed instructions on how to proceed if I decide to do it myself and suggestions for labs to use if I chose to go in that direction.

Thanks also for "having my back" regarding an unnecessarily harsh response. Admittedly, I'm still figuring out the site, as many are, I'm sure. And I'll hang in with it because of the great, supportive folks.

markie1425 Loc: Bryn Mawr, PA

cfbudd Loc: Atlanta, Georgia

I love the Nikon Coolscan 5000. That with a slide feeder (separate) will do great with Viewscan software. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Super-Coolscan-5000-ED-Film-Scanner-4000-dpi-LS-LATE-PRODUCTION-model-/302187504212?hash=item465bc76254:g:zeMAAOSwcUBYT1TG