Flatbed scanners vary widely in their ability to scan film transparencies. Used to be, they were uniformly awful, but today, many do a respectable job. The ones that do best have dedicated adapters that allow proper lighting. You'd have to figure out whether yours will work for this.
The Photo CD probably will provide OK quality, but the film probably will have more detail available that the pix on CD don't capture, even from a cheapie camera.
Good film scans are pretty expensive, $1 per image and up.
But you have one more option. You can backlight them and photograph them with a DSLR, and this works amazingly well as long as the transparency is held parallel to the camera, and extraneous light is eliminated. I actually made (well, modified) an adapter to do just this, and coupled to a Canon 10D it gives better results than a Nikon LS-30 film scanner! |
