I"m not abundant with knowledge on this subject, but I recently purchased a Transparency Adapter for my scanner. I didnt have the money to spend on an actual negative scanner and so far this has suited me rather well. Its basically a flat lamp you sit on top of the bed of the scanner and it hooks up to the back. Instead of feeding the film into the scanner it comes with a negative holder protector thingy. Sorry for the lack of tech terms. It seems to be a happy medium between scanning prints and a neg. scanner. Sorry if this is repeated info! May