35mm slides to CD

joylikes2shop

can anyone tell me if they've bought/used any of the gadgets available to convert the old 35mm slides and/or negatives into a modern photo or CD ?
I saw a gadget advertised on 'Something for the weekend' one Sunday morning which I thought would keep my 'tecky' mum busy during the winter months.It cost about £50 so its not gonna break the bank,or win photographic 'quality' prizes. Since I've started researching it all I now don't know if it's 'Money down the drain' or whether it'd be better just leaving all the slides into a photo lab and be done with it ? I dont remember the make of the featured scanner (No pen handy when the name flashed up on the screen and I've the memory of a goldfish...) All feedback/advise welcome.

steveymp

You pay for what you get unfortunately with these devices, usually an extension tube that sits precariously on the end of your lens that you then point out the window :eek: Results are dodgy to say the least :rolleyes:

Leaving them into jessops or another lab will be extremely expensive too and results again will vary by who copies them :rolleyes:

I do mine myself using a daylight balanced lightbox with a 110mm Macro lens on a 10mp digital slr for proper 1 to 1 copies and then do any adjustments and cleaning up in photoshop.

If you hadn't a whole lot to do I would be willing to do a few for you, but a suitcase full onto 10 cd's would be a different story:eek:

thetope

depends really what level of quality you want... my dad purchased a mid-range canon scanner (around the £100 mark) which has slide/negative scanning capability (with rails to hold them in place, etc). it works surprisingly well and is more than enough for his needs. a professional slide scanner would be a lot more expensive. £50 sounds a little on the "too cheap to be useful" side.

Browntoa

I've got the canon 4400f, about £70 now in argos

has the negative scanner built into the lid, scanned loads of old family photo's and negatives with it and works very well

joylikes2shop

Thank you all for your comments so far and especially to steveymp for your offer of help.
Since I don't have any other ideas of what to buy, and since there are still a few more shopping days left to go till Xmas, I think I'll see if I can buy a 'scanner' up to the £100 mark :eek: so, Stevemp, it looks like you're off the hook ............for now !

Thanks again x