Slide Converters

[Bob Blauvelt]

I have thousands of slides I need to digitize, so I'm looking for a reasonbly-priced good-quality converter. I've tried the one from VuPoint and -- aside from the fact that the display doesn't show the slides -- the quality of the scan is horrible with over-saturated colors and over-exposed highlights. The slide attachment on my flatbed scanned is way to slow and cumbersome at 30 to 40 seconds per slide. So... I'm looking for suggestions and recommendations.

[OsmosisStudios]

Ive only ever tried 3 systems.

Epson V500 Flatbed: its designed for negatives, but it takes a while to scan each one. not ideal, given that you want shorter than 30-50 seconds.

Lab process: Send the slides to a lab to have them scanned. This can be expensive, and you run the risk of the lab damaging/losing your slides.

Nikon Coolscan systems: Faster than the flatbed scanner with excellent results, but just as expensive as a lab processing.