While I'm here maybe a question that might belong elsewhere.

I sit on tons of old slides.

Anybody know of a place to get some in digital format that does not cost a fortune ??

 I presume a place doing such as a business has something better than a 'scanner' that has a transparency adapter ??

You can buy a dedicated film and slide scanner, not flatbed. That would be your cheaper option. Some places will charge $5 a slide.

 I was a regional photo supervisor for Walgreen's for a couple years.  They would do slides for .39 cents each.  Either make a print or scan them to CD for that.  The quality was OK but not professional.  I haven't worked for Walgreen's for 3 years so I don't know if their pricing is still the same on that or if they even let the stores offer it anymore as it was very time consuming for our photo techs especially when we would have people bringing in 1000 slides and want them done in a week.

It wouldn't hurt to check.  And as for the quality of them, if you are wanting them stored for personal use the quality would be fine.  If you are wanting to make large prints off the digital files, I would invest in a dedicated slide scanner. 

 Thanks.

I'm in Connecticut and I did run across 1 Walgreens in Seymour,Ct. that said it did slides for 39 cents. The problem was the person that knew how to do it was not in the day I was there.

I think it's the Walgreens with OLD machines that can do it and of coarse they are shipping out NEW machines to all(?) the stores.

This Seymour, Ct. location is quite a ways from where I live and gas costs and a guess that a person might be in ??

Otherwise getting slides into pictures does seem expensive.

I do not know the quality yet with thse scanners that offer transparancy adaptors. I bought an Epson about a year ago and opened it last week to see if I could get it to work and the 'inside' of the glass is all 'foggy' !!!!! Scan at least a picture it can look lousy with all the fog in the way. (or is it in the way?) I am speaking of low priced scanners. I of recent bought one of these new Canon's...4400 ??? It says scans film/slides. (look on their website)   ---- yet to have time to fiddle with it....

I seem to have bad luck with scanners. Most they seem to make it so you can't clean the inside. To me it seems not to take long before the glass seems all dirty. Even cracks in glass when you did nothing to put a little crack in the glass.

Then the drivers !!!! A terrible time matching the drivers to the computer. I'm still using XP but it seems as though any update patch might render a scanner to go whacko. I've found if you can't get the scanners drivers to work MAYBE simply using Google Picasa might get you some scans.

I have an old Canon scanner that has a parallel port that I used with a Windows 98 laptop. It worked wonderful. I tried it of recent and 'no go'. Changed nothing. ////// if you have old computers one possible reason to keep them alive is they might be a match to old hardware ////

I hear with Vista many XP things don't work.

--enuff....

I used this site to scan negatives for me and I was please with the price and results.

http://www.digmypics.com/Pricing.aspx

My Nikon slide scanner paid for itself in what it saved me in scanning old family photos.  It's a dedicated slide scanner - I have the IV version - I'm sure they are up to a different # by now.