"TheRealSteve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:29:44 -0300, "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...gon=&langid=EN
Note: the sale price expired yesterday.

I have one of these:
http://nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/...SCAN-V-ED.html
and the results are stunning. The software really works well also,
getting rid of scratches, grain, etc. But it really slows down
scanning time from maybe 40 seconds per shot to maybe 1-2 minutes per
shot if you have to do a lot of software processing/correction of bad
film.

Steve

Sounds like a quality unit..although a bit pricey at $600.00. (acording to
one site)