Converting Slides and Pics into jpegs

[Finepixdude]

I got lots of old photographys and slides I need to transfer to my computer. I have a in-expensive scaner now that suppose also do slides , but I have litte faith in its speeds and quality. I was wondering if there is Professional equipment I could rent scan/etc . I demand high quality and speed if all possible. I be taking a few days off in few weeks and would like to get all my old pictures / sides onto computer .. etc.
Anythoughts to make all this fast and less painful would be greatly appericated.

Thanks
Charles

[Buddha]

There are flatbed scanners that will digitize your photos, but I'm not personally familiar with them.
As far as slides, and negatives go, you need to scan them with a negative scanner. Depending on how many you have to do, you can buy one and scan them yourself or get them scanned by someone who can put them on a CD for you. That gives you some options about what kind of file to save them to. I've heard Costco scans negatives cheaply.
Check around for other sources around you.
You will probably want to do some editing of the images when you see them. You can recover alot of lost detail in the photos that way and you shouldn't pass up that opportunity. Paying someone to do that is expensive because it can take lots of time. I use PaintShop Pro to do mine, and you don't need the latest version to do what you need to.
How many do you have to copy? That makes a big difference.

[bmiller411]

I'm buying the Nikon Negative Scanner for about $1500us. I have about 25 years of Negs to scan. I will also be buying another computer and external hard drives for storage. I know they will not all fit on one hard drive, since they will all be large files. All Hi Res

[markfh]

I tried the flatbed method with no joy. Took too long and quality wasn't that good even though all the negatives I scanned came out pretty good.

I bought the Nikon V ED, from someone here, and it works pretty good.

I scan while doing other things and after selecting the ones I wanted to scan after viewing with my slide projector. It's going to be a long project...

If I get the chance I might buy something else that I can use a feeder with but reading the views on the one for the Coolscan 5000 I'm not too impressed.