scanning slides and negatives...what kit do i need?

[pollywobbledoodle]

i've got lots of 35mm slides and negatives and some bigger old slides (approx 2"x2")

i have a pc with vista and a decent ordinary scanner....can i scan them into photo gallery with any program or do i have to buy a special film scanner?

if i do need to get one, i have seen scanners that do the 35mm slides and negatives but haven't seen one that does all three...has anyone else?

thanks

anybody?
pretty please

My mum has a scanner that does old slides and she likes it a lot. Not sure if it does other formats (or what size the slides are)

thanks compare.....most seem to do 35mm film slides

anybody done this?

I've got a scanner thing that I bought to do all my dads old slides, I haven't used it yet though but the instructions look pretty simple.
I got mine from Netto for £45 which is the cheapest I've seen them, have also seen them on ebay. I think I can scan photos as well on mine so you should be able to do larger slides?

i have a scanner that does 35mm and medium format negs/slides, it's very good. epson 4490, is £122 on amazon. slide/neg scanners are bulkier than a normal flatbed because they have a light behind the image, in the lid. can be used as a normal scanner too.

Haven't looked into this recently, but we used to have a 'tranny scanner' at work, which was just like a normal flatbed scanner, but it had two different lids.

The 'tranny lid' was bulkier with a light fitting as Mileni describes, but it could be swopped for just a normal lid for scanning prints and documents.

It worked in the same way as a normal flatbed scanner iirc, but you have to play around with the settings on the software to make sure that you were scanning at a high enough res for the small transparency.

had given up on this!....thanks for your help

sorry - came late to this, only just seen it.

We use a negative scanner, which comes with a little adapter thingy that you can slot 5 or 6 slides into or a strip of negatives. we got ours on Amazon, but pixmania and the like sell them (all online) ours is quite old [relatively] it's Minolta, but the company got bought up by Sony a few years back and sony don't make them any more. Could only suggest taking a squint at the photo-geeks forums that DH hangs out on, see if there are any reviews of decent ones on there.
(alternatively i could ask the geek dh if you want )

thanks, will have a bit of an explore....