Advice On What Scanner/printer Is Best For Transferring Family Photographs.?
September 20th, 2009 | 
Author: I have a life times worth of family photographs, picture slides, negatives, video camera recorded tapes, and video tapes!!!!
All to be transferred onto CD or DVDs
Any advice would be gratefully received!
I am planning to go out and buy a new lap top, and need to get everything else to go with it. So if you were setting up for the first time what would you recommend????
Easy to work – I am not blonde, I am a silver surfer, so need EASY to understand and deal with equipment.
Posted in digital photography | 
Tags: Best, Family, Photographs, Scanner/printer, Transferring, What
What people seem to have missed is that you say you have picture slides and negatives to scan too.
This will mean that you need to obtain a scanner that has a separate negative scanner as a normal scanner is “reflective”, meaning that it uses reflected light to obtain the image it is scanning. This won’t work with negatives and slides. You need something that shines light through that media.
Some scanners already have this facility built in, but there are scanners that you can purchase add-on slide/negative scanners for.
Sorry I can’t help with brands of scanner that you might find useful, but I felt the need to respond with something that others are obviously missing.
The Canon range IS good. I’ve recently ( 6 months ago bought a Canon Pixma MP800 which will deal with your negatives and slides.
I got mine from http://www.Amazon.co.uk at a reasonable price ( considering what you can do with it). Have a look.