Hello Hoggers,

So first, yes I have searched this topic. No I don't want a link to a search of scanners. I'm looking for feedback, I want to know if what you have is good. If you know of a machine, but you don't have it and it will do what I'm looking for, I'd love to hear about that too.

I'm looking for a scanner for my mom so she can scan in all her 35mm slides. Some have plastic frames, some paper. She might even have strips of negatives. I've seen a wolverine one that will even scan prints and do it without a computer connected. She has 100s if not 1000s of slides. Most of the scanners I've looked at, you put 4 slides in a frame, then push the frame in to the scanner. Is there one that is an autoloader? Toss X amount in to a hopper and it'll grab and scan? Considering she has so many slides even Costco's price of $0.29 a slide might make it worth it to buy a machine that is a few hundred dollars. And if the device is a bit more for a woman who is 66 and doesn't work a computer well, then I'll certainly run the thing. And I'm a computer guy so I'm not worried about how complicated it is to run. So below is a break down of the order in which I find more important.

1 quality
2 load quantities, not 4 at a time
3 different formats, slide being the main, but would be nice to do prints too
4 price
5 ease of use
6 speed of scans, if I can drop in 50 slides and walk away I don't care if it takes hours to do them.

Thanks, Dave

Look up photo stacking, most photographers that are doing advertisements use this method for greater detail and larger plain of field. Basically you take several photos of the subject with a tripod at different focal stops then combine the photos to make one precise photo. (similar to HDR but using focus points instead of light). Usually focus stacking is done with a macro lens however below is a photo I focus stacked with a 300mm tamron lens the first photo is one of the originals prior to stacking the second photo is the result of the stacking 4 photos of different focus points.

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