Drunken Bungle Whore

I do some volunteer work with a local conservation charity (Fleet Pond Society) and they have a need to get a large volume of 35mm slides onto a PC so that they can do pesentations for schools, open days, government funding bodies etc.

To get them done individually they've been told £1 per slide - which is way too much.

Can anyone help by either:

a) Recommending a very reasonably priced scanner we could get, or
b) Offer us use of one for a couple of weeks as we'll really only need it as a one off.

Many thanks!

David Lock

I bought an HP scanner (4850) recently, about £90 IIRC, which has this facility. But results not great but this is probably my incompetence. My local shop want 50p per slide and net seems to be between about 30 - 80p.

r32

Try Jessops?

Pumpkin

I would say the best thing to do would be to buy a decent film / slide scanner, do the job and then sell the scanner on Ebay afterwards.

Some of the scanners can take multiple slides at once and the process is semi-automated.

SwissTony

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get yourself down to pc world, get a cheap epson scanner for about £60, it should do transparencies and have a slide holder.

cheaper in the long run if you need to do some more scanning in the future

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

When I was a lecturer I had (and still have) thousands of slides.... A mate of mine made a holder out a cardboard tube and took digital pics of the slides with the light from a lightbox.

Quality was perfectly alright for Powerpoint

Midlife.....

Mick

iTrader: (1)

I checked with Jessops - they wanted £1 per side for the first 9 then 50p per slide...

Perhaps best option is to show the slides on a quality screen and photograph the pictures with a digicamera - probably be quicker than hand loading slides in a scanner

Cheers

Mick