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Hi this overlaps with computer so I hope I am ok posting this question. Can any one advise on the best way I might make - digital copies of slides (old slide film). I have a bundle of old slide I would like to look at but rather than buy an old slide projector - I would prefer to get my hands something I could attach to a PC. Any tips appreciated thanks

Lots of scanners available for the very task, but the money you spend will depend on how many slides you have and how fast you want them scanned!!!!

If you are talking 35mm here

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=slide+scann ... 80&bih=920

If I had lots, I'd be tempted for a non-computer version, somthing like this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electro ... d:17268676

You drop the slides in, bang an SD card in and click 'go'.

You can then edit them all later.

I've got an ION Film 2 PC that I picked up on ebay (can't remember how much but it was cheap) - it takes 35mm or 110mm slides and its dead easy to use but a bit time consuming

Great ! Thanks for that they look like just the job - Less hardware needed then I expected. I shall read up on all three and see which gives the best quality scan / largest number of pixels.

Depends what you want to do with them.....larger pixels don't mean better images in all cases, just bigger file sizes!!!

I would also recommend you look in to the scanning software, VueScan.
I had a Minolta slide / film scanner, the scans it did were "ok" however when i upgraded to Windows 7 i could not get any drivers for it.

VueScan has its own drivers for 1000's of scanners, and actually produced much better scans, all i ended up doing was scanning & cropping. Easy as pie

Epson with a film /slide scanner and the software I think is much better