Can anyone recommend a USB 35mm slide scanner?

I've recently collected a heap of slides taken by my late father, and I want to digitise some of the more significant ones and put them on a CD-ROM for my brother.

I don't want to spend more than £100 - I know that the £300 - £400 ones will do a better job, but there's no way that I can justify spending that much for something that I'll only use for a month or two.

The alternative is to use a slide scanning service - I've seen one that charges £36 for 50 slides - but I'm a bit wary of sending valuable (to my family) slides to a third party that I don't know will look after them.

There's one on ebay that I'm watching, but I suspect that it will rocket in price when it gets near the end of the auction.

2 years ago I bought a plustek opticfilm 7200 new for about £100 at the time.

I had similar requirements to you and took advice from a camera shop. It does the job fine, scans both slides and negatives (35mm only I think) and came with basic image editing software.

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put the words "slide scanner" in the search box on maplins web site; 4 items match starting from £ 55 to £ 100.

dunno about quality but 48 bit 36,000 dpi = 5 Mp if that means anything to ya.

Unfortunately Maplins are always a fair bit more expensive than everyone else! Also, if you read the reviews of the same scanners on Amazon, they get a VERY bad score...

I've also read about adaptors that go on the front of a digital SLR - don't know how well they work...

I have one of the adaptors, works really well as long as you have a good light source

An example. Anyone recognise where and possibly when?
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Wouldn't know where but the Beetle in the foreground is a 1961 registration.


The missus was thinking of this too but said she couldn't justify spending £100 on one as it would be used once. I told her to buy one, use it then sell it on at a little less as "Boxed, still under warranty, used once"

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The beetle is registered 1965 and was brand new!

Doh must have miscounted somewhere...

How do you know it's new? Was it yours?

No it was the year my Dad took the photo!

that is yer mom carrying money in the basket to put on premium bonds for you at the bank the week after you were born.


come on you northern peeps, where is the place? AJ is middleborough/Yorks registration and I would guess the photo would be local, confirmed by the lack of sun.

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I wish!!

I cannot believe that no-one has picked up where the photo was taken. Lyons tea house just out of picture on the left and Terry's shop on the right!

You could show me a picture of Warrington at that time and I'd struggle to recognise it!

Is that the road next to Bond Street off Piccadily?

Well, are you going to tell us ???