I've got a stack of like 500 35mm photos from my trip to Idaho back in 1994. I'd always been a bit disappointed with most of them because I'd brought the undeveloped rolls back with me on the plane -- which means that they went through the X-Ray machine at the airports (switched flights in St. Paul), and had blamed that for the cruddy prints I got back from the photo mill.

Anyway, if you have looked in my photo gallery recently,
you'll see a few of those prints. Since I don't have a
scanner, I had to take a picture of the prints with my
digital camera to get them into the computer.

While the resolution is poor, even at full size right out
of the camera, I was very happy to discover that I could
clean these photos up quite a bit, digitally.

So now I want a scanner. A really good one. Preferably one
that will do 35mm negatives, and later, 4" X 5" large
format negatives for when (not if) I get a field camera,
etc.

This has got to be one of the best forums on the net to
ask for opinions/reviews of good quality scanners. And so
I'll do just that.

What would be your choice for a scanner, then, in the $500
or less price range?

TIA

Artemia