In reply to greg_may_:
Hi Greg,
I had a similar issue - old slides (both my own and my father's).
I bought a Minolta DiMage slide scanner several years ago. Whilst it gives excellent image quality, slide scanning alone is a slow process. If you add post-scan processing into the mix its even slower>
My scanner takes 4 slides at a time, and from memory (I haven't scanned slides in a while) it took over 5 mins to scan all 4. Whilst this might not seem long - its not long enough to go away and do something else, but seems interminable if you sit watching it! I tried reading at the same time, but ended up concentrating on reading and forgot the scanner!
I have a colleague at work who has a need to scan almost 3000 slides. The cost of getting this done professionally was not punitive £70+VAT per 100 slides if I remember correctly. I presume that equipment used by professional companies would be faster/higher capacity throughput?
FWIW, my biggest issue was slide quality - so many of the old ones had fungal growth which requires a lot of post-processing.
Good luck.
N