Slide scanner recommendation/advice please?

[yorkshirelad1]

No doubt like many others, I have "inherited" several boxes fulls of old (1960s etc) family slides and transparencies that I’d like to scan (because we’d like to preserve them, share them, and we don’t have a projector any more, and we’d prefer to share and display them on e.g. google photos anyway)

Does anyone have an advice where to start researching, or any tips on what to look for, or any recommendations.
The important slides are those in square cardboard frames for a projector and most are loaded into carousels (I know I'll have to take them out, but that’s easy, and at least in the carousels, they’re organised)
There are also loads of strips of transparencies which I might think about later, but that’s so important as we have physical prints of those.

I’d perhaps like a model that has a power-supply (some seem to run on batteries) and perhaps link to a computer (some seem to transfer photos using a memory card).
I’m aware that some models are consumer-priced, and then there are professional models which are priced accordingly. I think I’d be happy with a second hand model, as once the job is done, it’s done, and I don’t foresee the need to keep the scanner, so happy to buy a second hand model and then sell it on, rather than have it clutter the place up.

I’ve come across the Reflecta x33 scanner, and the DIGITNOW!High Resolution 135 Film/Slide Scanner, but only in a very uneducated Googling way.

Any thoughts, comments and ideas welcome. Many thanks

[redsturgeon]

I am considering doing this with my own 35mm slides and DIY option seems to be either a dedicated scanner or using an adapter for your own camera. Since I already own a high quality full frame DSLR then I am considering that route myself. I have not yet looked thoroughly at the options yet though.

[Stompa]

Mrs S got one of these:

https://veho-world.com/en-eu/product/ve ... e-scanner/

a few years ago. I was expecting the results to be awful, but they actually turned out to be somewhat better than I'd anticipated. There are some examples in the reviews on Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-Smartfix- ... 072KKDL3N/

Mind you we've not used it for slides, only negatives.

[tjh290633]

Mrs S got one of these:

https://veho-world.com/en-eu/product/ve ... e-scanner/

a few years ago. I was expecting the results to be awful, but they actually turned out to be somewhat better than I'd anticipated. There are some examples in the reviews on Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-Smartfix- ... 072KKDL3N/

Mind you we've not used it for slides, only negatives.

I had one of those which worked fine on my 32 bit computer. The replacement computer was 64 bit and is incompatible,, so I now have one that saves to an HD card, but I haven't got round to using it.

TJH

[JohnB]

Its 10 years since I did mine, so can't advise on models, but you must get one with a hopper that allows you to queue up a batch of sides, then scan them with either automated or manual feed. Don't get anything that requires putting them on the scan platform singly or putting them in holders.

[Stompa]

Mrs S got one of these:

https://veho-world.com/en-eu/product/ve ... e-scanner/

a few years ago. I was expecting the results to be awful, but they actually turned out to be somewhat better than I'd anticipated. There are some examples in the reviews on Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-Smartfix- ... 072KKDL3N/

Mind you we've not used it for slides, only negatives.

I had one of those which worked fine on my 32 bit computer. The replacement computer was 64 bit and is incompatible,, so I now have one that saves to an HD card, but I haven't got round to using it.

TJH

Mine saves to an SD card, so I guess yours must have been a different model.