Anyone any experience of 35mm Slide Scanners?

[Ming the Merciless]

I have a Minolta one I bought in 2002. It can do 4 slides in a holder in batch mode. The trick is to do other things whilst it’s scanning , rather than wait for it to finish. With modern PCs it’s pretty easy to do other stuff whilst it scans. I try and do 25 slides a session. Then stop. You soon start making progress through your slides

 

[mistyoptic]

As an example, here’s one I prepared earlier. This slide was taken in 1963 at the centenary celebrations of the Festiniog Railway at Tan-y-Bwlch station. Slide photographed last week using a macro lens coupled to a holder for the slide

 

[mistyoptic]

For completeness and comparison, this is the same slide copied with the Maplin scanner (little self contained USB box) and then a crop from each pic showing the better detail possible with the macro lens/camera approach

 

[classic33]

@MontyVeda, have you considered getting them copied onto CD/DVD at a camera shop?