Not kept up with the market. What do most people use now?

My Granddaughter gave me a SVP FS1700 for Christmas. It accepts either film strips or slides (has carriers for both) and is 110v. Has a small screen (1 3/8ths x 1 7/8ths) and seems to do a good job ,but it is a digitizer NOT literally a scanner. Not the fastest item but does a good job of getting all my slides (20 years worth) on line. I'm happy with it. Have no idea of the cost seems well made but only time will really tell how it holds up.

I need one too, Mike. I have lots of slides and a fair number of B&W negs I have never seen as prints.

Unless you want a dedicated, expensive scanner from someone like Nikon, I suggest you check out Epson,s V750 scanner.

Check teh specs and see if it offers all that you want.

What exactly are you desiring to scan. film negatives,slides or photographs and if film ,what size and if prints also what size. The Epson is a superb flat bed scanner and costs in the $800-$1000 range. If you are interested in only 35mm negatives or slides and your desire is to turn them to digital images for storage or editing the FS1700 is less than $80 and will digitize a slide in 5 seconds and place it on an SDHC card which can then be transferred to a computer. No other software required. It also has some small editing capabilities on it's rather small screen. But it is strictly limited to 35mm and only slides or negatives (film strips). It will not make copies,will just scan the image and digitize it. I am terribly impressed with it but I am easily impressed.

Zim, Muchas gracias for the tip on the SVP FS1700. Ordered it.

I have a older Canon scanner that does 35mm and med format film. Works pretty well but would like to have a scanner that scans just 35mm and med format. Oh yes, and won't break the bank.

GAAA! The software may not be supported by our Imacs.

Well the thing works great, but I am waiting to hear from Silicon Valley Peripherals if the editing program that comes with it will run on a Mac.

I bought a Canon with the intention of doing all my slides (about 1500-2000); I finally gave up. You had to do them 1 at a time, lint/dust is a real problem, and getting color just right was tedious. So now I just bundle up about 300 at a time and send them to a lab in Utah and let them do them. Quality is super, delivery time is a bit slow but at least it is getting done. I am not done yet but I am getting there.
C.G.B.

Hows the resolution with the epson? Yes I realize the end product depends on the quality of the neg or slide in the first place. I asume it will do B&W also?

cgbach whats the link for that firm in Utah? That might be the way to go. Let them worry about the dust specs!

cg: I think your approach the wisest. The slides can be incredibly tedious. Care to share the name of that lab in Utah?

I have a 5 year old HP that does a decent job but if I has something important, I'd send it to a professional firm. (The HP works fine on my iMac, eMac and MacBook Pro)

Larsen Digital Service. So far I have been happy with the results.
C.G.B.

You might consider going for a used product. There are probably many people who buy, scan all their old slides and film and then sell the scanner. Here's a decent one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer...=UTF8&condition=used

I have a Cannon 8800F scanner that came with holders for 35mm film, 35mm slides and 120 film. Works well when I remember to clean the glass!

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
GAAA! The software may not be supported by our Imacs.

The Epson V700-series scanners are supported by the Mac software. The V750, as Saeed said, is a superb scanner. Even the V700 I have does an excellent job, and you can scan several film sizes, not juts 35mm. You can also scan several slides at once.

But I don't use the scanning software that comes with the scanner. Some of this software is good, but overcomplicated. Perhaps the best software in regards of cost, scan quality, and ease of work is VueScan Pro. You can set the scan to be done by size. For example, in 8" x 12", 5"x 7" print size, etc., or by pixels, and so on. That's the software I use on my Macs, but all scan software are compatible with Mac.

I set up my scanners so that the scanned image (s) are saved to Adobe DNG format, and as soon as the scan is complete that image is opened by PhotoShop CS5. I use CS5 to do the processing, the final dust and scratch cleaning, and so on.