slide scanner wanted (borrow)

[traveller]

Hi all, I have a small collection of slides I took when I was in Africa over 10 years ago. I was meant to digitise them sometime back, but house renovations and children took priority, and the rest as they say...
Anyway, I wanted to borrow a good quality slide scanner. A few years ago, Nikon Coolpix were all the rage, but I am very out of the loop about these things now.
Anyway, does anyone have a good quality slide scanner they can recommend?
Better still, do you have one I can borrow (I will pay for postage etc)?
Thanks in advance.
PS: Going to Snake Valley on Sat week, so happy to get one off you then.
Cheers,
Bo

[Octane]

In the affordable realm, the Epson Perfection series are the ducks guts nowadays.

The professional end of town ends up in the tens of thousands.

If you can't find anyone to loan you one, you may have to head off to a prolab (where they still develop film) and get them to scan the slides for you. Depending on the size of the slides, it can get really expensive.

H

[traveller]

Thanks Octane,
I am not a pro photographer by a long shot, so happy to have a pro-sumer type of scanner. Most of the slides were average, as the African sun tends to wash most of the contrast out (even with a polarising filter).
Will do some research on the Epson you suggested.
Bo :thanx:

[Octane]

Bo,

Anything from the v500 upwards will do the job for you. From memory, the v500 was about $300-something on eBay.

H

[DavidLJ]

I cannot recommend the Epson Perfection v500 Photo scanner highly enough. Mine has completely rejuvenated many boxes of old fading African slides and ancient family prints going back to the Box Brownie era. Well worth every dollar spent. Currently you can get one at RPM Computing for $327.95

[Poita]

If you only have a small selection, I'd be happy to scan them for you.

I have a Nikon Coolscan with ICE in the cupboard, but it is SCSI, so you probably couldn't use it on your computer.

[Poita]

Either that or give these guys a go:
http://www.aussiescan.com/prices.html
They only charge 60-90c per slide.

[traveller]

Thanks Peter,
I have a couple of shoe boxes full of slides, so I may as well buy a Epson, scan them in and then sell it afterwards. Probably the cheapest solution.
Cheers,
Bo :thumbsup: