"Tim" wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 6:01 pm, "Don White" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Mar 27, 10:29 am, "Don White" wrote:

My buddy from the BVI and I were talking about all the old 35mm slides
and
negatives we have from the good 'ole days. We both decided we need a
scanner so we can share old pictures with family & friends.
He lives on a 32' sailboat on Tortola so a smaller dedicated unit might
suit
him.
I have the room... and will have other uses, like copying documents
(seem
to
do this a lot for moms affairs) so I ordered a Canon CanoScan CS8800F
from
FutureShop at a sale price of $199.99 CDN.
Anyone have any experience scanning their old film/slides over to
digital?
Here's the
unit..http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0665000FS10094...
Note: the sale price expired yesterday.

Don, I had thought of getting one of these. Of course, it might be
that one gets what they pay for, but I think this is an adaptor that
you can put on a digital camera (SLR?) and take a photo of the slide
then process it to hard drive.

http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Opteka-O...er-for-Olympus...

This one would fit what I've got.

http://47stphotoonline.com/Opteka-HD...uji/M/B000TH4F...

mmm that's interesting!
I see it does slides but no mention of 35mm negatives.

Yes, that seems to be a limiter, but if you have a lot of slides,
then that could be a cheap ticket.

I have been looking as I have thousands of slides from my dad. The limiting
function on a lot of them is the loading of the slides. Some take way too
long. Seems as if most of the decent ones in the US are about $100.