Post #212977 by thejab on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 11:40 AM

I also use an Epson scanner, which has worked well for slides. It's the Epson Perfection 1650 Photo. This model number is no longer being made but I'm sure there is an equivalent made by Epson. It was only around $100 and received favorable reviews on Amazon.com for its slide scans: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005M259/103-6589932-5110227?v=glance&n=172282.

Despite one review to the contrary on the Amazon page, it is compatible with Mac OS X, with a software download from Epson.

The way it works Ben, it comes with an accessory that you place on the scanner bed which has 4 holes of standard slide size, so you can set up the software to slide 4 at a time.

I scanned all our family slides at the highest resolution possible into TIFF files, and then export them to JPEGs if I want to email them or post them on the web.

Here's a couple examples of slides of my parents at the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair that I scanned and exported to JPEG (so they are much smaller than the original scans):

The color is a bit cool, but is from the original slides, not caused by my scanner. If I experimented with the scan settings I might be able to correct the color a bit. But after scanning over a hundred slides I got lazy. Scanning them at high resolution isn't fast, it takes about 5 minutes per slide. There was also some dirt on the slides that showed in the scans.