[hsmom]

Ro,
Your work with slides was very interesting. I like the idea of printing a small picture to go next to the slides. My problem is....between my husband and his father we literally have thousands of slides. We will be able to trim it down but all of my in-laws photos are on slides - all of them. What means did you use to transfer the slides? ...you mentioned it was slow. Do you know of a faster, even if more expensive way, to transfer them.

Thanks,
Donna

[April Showers]

I'm obviously not Ro, but I've scanned a whole lot of slides. I use a Nikon negative/slide scanner with an auto slide feeder. It does a stack of 50 at a time. I lent it to a friend over the holidays and he finished up his box of over 1,000 slides in a few weeks.
Unfortunately, they've discontinued the scanner, so it is more expensive now than when I bought it about 9-10 years ago.
I have a 4000ES, but I've heard the 5000ES is a little faster. The slide feed adapter is a SF-210. You can sometimes find them sold together on ebay or craigslist.

[Ro]

Sorry this took so long. I just saw it.

My Canon scanner comes with a slide attachment. It takes so long because even though I can place 4 slides in it, the scanner does a scan for each slide.

You could use a service that will do it for you. Here is a place that will take care of it for $.39 each.

scanning service