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But me, I'm with Bitt on this one (neither of us are particularly wealthy, I suspect), and doing something like that myself would be the way to go if the cost was more than, say, 50 cents per slide scanned.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Both services are just under US$0.50 a piece, but that's for 2000 DPI. The scanner I'm looking at is 7200 DPI. Do I really need that high resolution? Of course not, but it's neat.

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I'd hate to spend the time on it myself, but I'd also hate to blow US$1000 and possibly end up with something I'm not 110% satisfied with.

Also, if I do it myself and something gets screwed up, I'd rather be able to redo it than rely on someone else. Certainly if I had thousands and thousands of slides, I'd probably send them off, but I'm probably talking about somewhere around one thousand. That would end up costing me about $500 for the service. Or I could buy a new scanner myself for less and be able to control the results myself and get a higher resolution.

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Especially if it means a great excuse/opportunity to get a new toy! Even if only temporarily.

There also is the new toy factor, but I'm sure after doing 50 slides, the shine will be off that apple really quickly. Still, it's not something that I have to focus on at the time. I can just hook it up to my laptop and scan them in while I'm watching TV or whatever. Postprocessing can be done post-scanning.
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Bitt Faulk