I have a prime film 1800 film scanner and to be honest I am disapointed with the results. it is about 4 years old.
I get better results projecting the slide and photographing the screen!

I want a slide scanner that does excelent 35mm slides. I have 3000 to scan in I don't realy want to spend over £100

It would be great if the scanner had some sort of slide stack to load 10- 36 slides att a time

I couldnt find a better part of the forum for this question

If any one has excelent results could they e-mail me a sample scan to tony.seaton@btinternet.com
Ta in advance

Last year we bought my Dad a Plustek 7200 for Christmas and he's very pleased with it. I don't have any samples though, I'm afraid. There can be software issues though (see Amazon reviews) but if my Dad can get good results from it, it must be fairly easy to use!

Watch out for cheaper "scanners" that literally just take a digital photo of the slide, the results from them are bad! Make sure it scans properly, the way a flatbed scanner would.

I read a review on this, sounds great for quality but takes 5 min per slide. linked from plusteck

3000 slides .... 250 hours but so far it appears to be the best option

What about the Canon range of flatbeds with film scanning ?

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Prod...ning/index.asp

Anyone used or recommended these ?

I've got a CanoScan 4400F. It has a film scanner built into the lid. You basically just slide out a cover to expose the film scanner. A plastic part then pops out; this serves as a housing for film or slides.

I haven't done a lot of film scanning as that really wasn't why I bought it. The quality of scans are decent and it will import each frame into a specified program (such as Photoshop) as a separate document, which is good because you then don't have to start cropping them to separate. Basically when you remove the cover it switches on a different lamp for scanning the film, which is useful.

They're the good points. On the negative side, it takes quite a few minutes to do film scanning, and the actual process of loading it up is fairly time-consuming too. (Though I suppose you'd get used to it.) I can imagine the whole process would be VERY laborious and time-consuming if you have a lot to do.

I've only tried with 35mm film, not with slides, but it has the facility to do both. (Slides would probably be slightly easier, as film negatives tend to be curved and bendy, and quite difficult to get into the housing.)

Hope this helps.

Useful thanks

If this is one-off exercise why not get someone to do it for you? Should work out cheaper when done on a professional quality and speed scanner from nikon etc.