scanner help

my dad is in a clean up/sort out kick, and the family spent about 8 hours yesterday going through boxes of papers, pictures, and slides. lots of slides. dad wants to scan the slides and store them digitally. i suggested that we do the same with the pictures and some documents.

are there combination scanners that can do flatbed scanning and slides/negatives, or do i need to look at two different machines? does anyone have any relevant experience?

It's a whole lot of work. If somebody has the time and the patience, then you should look at Veho slide scanners with the autoloader - but it still takes forever.

We rented a NIKON pro-scanner for about $75 for a weekend, and used it for three straight days. Didn't get even half of the family collection done.

Instead, we took a collection from family members, shipped the negatives off to India and paid $.25-$.30 per slide/photo/negative. We sent a DVD to each family member that chipped in. Highly recommended.

Just saw one (just for slides) in skymall.

http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=102488719&c=10280

We have one in the office.

Originally posted by eddie:
We have one in the office.

so we have confirmation that i'm a moron. i knew it had some attachments, but i couldn't remember if it did slides.

hp scanjet 5590. retails for around $300.

thanks for the help.