Mid-priced copier/scanner with 35mm photo for Mac 10.13.6

Finding an all-in-one device that handles printing, copying, document scanning and 35mm negative/slide scanning is tough because standard office printers do not have backlit film lids. Instead, buy a mid-priced multifunction printer for documents/copying, paired with a dedicated flatbed photo scanner like the Epson Perfection V600 Photo, which fully supports macOS 10.13.6. But it can be expensive, I dont know what you mean by mid price

JaysJ wrote:

I'm am a old guy with a older MAC that works fine for me. Lot's of slides/pics in boxes from 1970 etc. I'd like to save to CD. Was thinking about $200. But as the price of egg breakfasts, everything is too expensive these days.

Unfortunately that price point will not get any decent new scanner must less one that could scan slides. Even on the used market you would be hard pressed to find one at that price that was any good at scanning photos.

Also, considering all the work required to scan quantities of slides & photos, it is likely to be easier and more cost effective to have a service do the scanning for you. In quantity, you could expect the cost to be around $.30-$.60 per slide.

If you need to digitize photos from 35mm negatives or slides, you could poke around on the sites of

• B&H Photo Video
• Adorama

and see if they have any equipment to do the job. These are photo retailers that carry a huge selection of photo equipment ranging from entry-leve consumer equipment to high-grade professional equipment that only, say, a Hollywood studio or a TV station could afford.

You might find

• flatbed scanners with backlit lids
• dedicated film scanners
• attachments for digital SLRs and mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (where you insert a slide, or sometimes a film strip, into a holder and then take a picture of the slide using the camera)

Just playing around on one of these now, I found film scanners ranging from an entry-level Kodak unit for $160 to an Epson archival scanner that costs an eye-watering $5500.

If you only need to work with prints, there are a million flat-bed scanners - either scanner-only, or AIO printer units. There are also copy stands that can hold a camera pointing down at a document you want to photograph.

There are hundreds of different scanners on the market in all price ranges, capabilities, performance & reputation. Exactly do you need/want to do ...

Copy and/or scan documents - single pages ... or multipage using an auto document feeder?

Scan photos (prints)?

Scan slides or negatives?

Something else?

Print copied/scanned documents?

Print scanned photos?

And what are your priorities ... e.g. is scanning 35mm slides a "nice to have" or a "must have"?