Steve, You have some interesting replies so far, so I'll keep this brief so that you do not get overwhelmed by all the good answers. 1. If you are interested in scanning to Photo CD and are going to do more than 100 scans, consider a trip to CompUSA. Most of them carry a small dedicated 35mm film scanner the "Primefilm 1800U" It isn't high on the technology side, and most people who read specs only will tell you not to buy this. I, an actual user of this scanner, will tell you from experience, that it creates a scan equal in quality to a Photo CD. My prices here for a Photo CD are approximately 1.39 per image. Therefore to pay for this $189.00 "gem" of a film scanner requires me to get at least 136 scans out of this unit. Easy, I'm already half way there. Another benefit is that many Photo CD's provide quite dirty images from slide film, just a personal experience. With the inexpensive film scanner you can get cleaner images. Also you get the joy of giggling like a school girl when your friend who has to have the latest and the best in equipment buys a $1000+ film scanner... hehe. 2. Find a friend with a "higher quality" film scanner and buy them pizza and beer. <-- that way you both benefit. 3. If you live in a large area, quite possibly some mini-lab in your area has one of the Fuji Frontier machines. Check your local Sam's club, many have these for one-hour machines. The Frontier can scan and make prints from slides and also create Photo CD's. Suprisingly the quality is quite good. The prints however, are utterly amazing, like nothing else from a minilab. Hope this little bit of info helps, and I am envious of your trip - need an assistant? Don Steve Bell <[email protected]> wrote: Hey everyone, i know this is off topic, but i figure you all may be of some help. Tomorrow i leave from Baltimore to go to Belize for two weeks. A group of students and a couple of teachers are going down to a village called Big Falls. Our purpose is to organize and run a day camp for kids there. We will be educating them as well as playing games, etc. to help them keep learning during the summer when school is out. The village is impoverished and education there isn't extremely good. Although, the teachers they have are very passionate individuals. We will be bringing them school supplies as well, to help their school year this coming semester. So, as i'm a photography student, i have been one of two from our group who have been chosen to be in charge of photography(the other happens to be a woman who has her BA in photo already, so i hope to learn a lot from her). It's important that we document it well so we can better publicize it in the future, i.e. to make pamphlets, etc to solicit donations. So i've decided to use slide film, which i haven't much experience with. i have enough experience to use it adequately, and i figured slide film would be a good choice. Therein lies my question. I haven't a scanner, and i will certainly want these slides scanned, so where do i go? I'm pretty sure Kinkos doesn't have slide scanning capabilities. are there places that i can have this done? Also, any tips on travelling anyone might want to give me will be greatly appreciated. I do have some 1600 film in my bag (fuji Neopan 1600, to be precise, i figured some black and white won't hurt), and i will certainly want that to be hand inspected. Hopefully i won't have too much trouble. please excuse me for the long, off topic email, but from all of the responses i've read on this list, everyone seems to be very helpful and caring, so i figured you all would have some good advice.
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