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Scanner recommendation for 1000s of slides?

Hello All,

I posted here because this is a graphics questions. I recently aquired 3000+ slides from my grandparents who just moved into a retirement community. I have been using an Epson scanner to scan one slide at a time for previous projects, but as you can imagine, that's pretty tedious.

I wonder if anyone here can recommend a scanner that would allow me to scan several slides at a time. Of course, I am looking for something reasonable in price, preferably under $500. Anyone with any first-hand expierence?

Thanks in advance for any and all advice.

Adam

PowerMac G4 MDD 2GB Ram, 2 80GB, 1 250GB Internal, 1 300GB Firewire External, Mac OS X (10.2.x), PowerMac G4 400mhz, 80GB Internal, DVR110 SuperDrive, OSX 10.4

Posted on Apr 13, 2006 1:21 PM

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Aug 20, 2006 12:54 PM in response to Barry Fisher

I whole heartedly recommend the Nikons with bulk feeders (software is slightly quirky on PC). It took me nearly 18 months some years ago to scan 10k+ slides one at a time when I thought I couldn't afford a bulk feeder...A year ago I upgraded and got the newer scanner with the feeder. Catching up on a year + of slides in a day made me sick thinking of all the time I wasted when I initially took my film digital.
Spend the $1500, spend a couple weeks feeding the loader whenever you remember, then sell the setup on ebay if you have no further use for it.

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