Scanners

A friend is looking to buy a scanner. He would like to be able to scan his small watercolours directly, but he also shoots transparencies. Scanners that handle transparencies well are

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While it's still a necessity to have slides for presentations, it is much simpler to use a digital camera for those images that are intended to end up on a Web site. In fact you can now find photo processors that will create film from digital images. Seattle Film Works is one that comes to mind but there are others too. For slides that already exist I think it would be cheaper to take them to a Kodak outlet and have the ones that are needed in digital form scanned to a CD than pay the high cost of the scanner that may have little or no use once a good quality digital camera is available.

Mr. Ziorjen: A key question here is: 'what does your friend wish to do with the scanned images? What is (are) his specific application(s)?'

Regards, Wayne

Thanks for you help on this. This is the route I intend to take myself.