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Or send them to Memory Box.................
Many complaints at the play store, mostly about the cost.
The scanner that I have which is now over ten years old and still does an excellent job. In addition to photos and documents, it has slide and film adapters with a light that comes on in the lid. It has always done a much better job than taking pictures with a digital camera or phone to reproduce photos.
The quality of a scanner is entirely dependent on the quality of the optics and the size of the sensor.
Cheap optics will yield soft detail with sometimes meddling contrast. You have to stop them down to get the best results.
A small sensor may boast a lot of pixels but just like a fine grain film in a small format the limit will still be imposed by the optics.
Even the best prosumer optics will lay down and die at 100 to 150 line pairs per millimeter resolved, though some lenses achieve higher (the better Pentax SLR pancake lens was one of these, and could, IIRC, produce 200-ish lppmm at f5.6 or so).
A purpose built slide copy lens with a large sensor DSLR may be the best bet if you don’t want to plunk down bucks on a good film scanner ... especially if you already own the DSLR.
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Back when I was shooting film (Velvia, Provia..) I had a Nikon Coolscan IV and it made wonderful scans of slide film. As DSLR’s eventually replaced film I stopped using it.
I have a cannon slide scanner works really well and you can scan 4-6 slides each run.. The software is good also.
I scanned all of our old slides (most were my Granddad’s, from the 40s/50s), a few years ago.
My scanner had an attachment that the slides easily fit into.
Then, they would save as individual jpegs.
Have loved sharing and looking at these images, over the years.
Have a 12-year-old great-grandson who is a nerd and might do it for me...
If he doesn't want to, I'll take back the Ruger 10-22 I gave him last Christmas...😏
Here are some models:
KODAK Slide N SCAN Film and Slide Scanner with Large 5” LCD Screen
https://www.amazon.com/KODAK-Scanner-Convert-Negatives-Resolution/dp/B084NVRHYQ