Scanning slides

It's a dull dreich day here and snowing again slightly so I'm going to try to digitise some 35mm slides (we've got 1000s of them). I say 'try' because my laptop computer keeps telling me that I need more memory to get the resolution I want/need, and so far 2400dpi is the best I can get. This is barely acceptable and the images are huge - typically 20MB!

Thing is, I'm not even sure that using a flatbed scanner, which claims to be able to give a resolution of 4800dpi, will actually give decent quality images even if I buy a new computer with more memory. I've currently got 2GB. Opinions vary and a proper film scanner, it's suggested, is the only way to get really good results - or get them professionally done at the price of a decent house!

Anyone got any experience of this? Thanks.

Thawing

The thaw seems well and truly set in and so it's back to cold, raw and breezy weather. Give me the Alpine calm and intense cold of the past few weeks anytime.

We're trying out SmugMug so there is a gallery open there now should anyone be interested. I think other galleries are locked at present but they're on picasa anyway so I've not bothered to change that.

Bye for now.