[H-GEN] Scanning Slides

[Gary Curtis]

On 5/24/05, David <djmunn at bigpond.com> wrote:
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> Hi All.....my wife has several 1000 slides that are gathering dust and
> starting to deteriate....she would like to have them on CD or
> DVD.....has checked the commercial price and is way too high....i
> remember there were around some hardware slide readers available but
> havent seen an ad for them in a while.....
> does anyone know of a product that is available to  do this job and
> where they could be available....
> of course they must run under Linux ...
> 
> Thanks for your help
> David Munn

I believe that the higher-end scanners have attachments that
allow you to scan 3 or 4 slides at a time, all at a decent enough
resolution.  I need to do this for my own slides (1000s) but haven't 
worked up the courage just yet.

Gaz
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