cheapest way to transfer film negatives to digital photos?

Buy a good film scanner (second hand maybe). Scan your negs. Sell scanner on
ebay. Seriously, this is quite a common thing.

PDM
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H I have about 200 film negatives. What's the cheapest way to transfer
them to digital photos? Wall green/CVS charges like 8 dollars for a cd
of 24 I think.

Thnx

PDM wrote:
Buy a good film scanner (second hand maybe). Scan your negs. Sell scanner on
ebay. Seriously, this is quite a common thing.

We were in the same situation, hundred of family negatives and slides to
scan. I chose the Minolta Scan Elite 5400, and went looking on eBay. A
single slightly dodgy auction was running, so we bid up to the PayPal
guaranteed amount of £150, but lost out. By complete luck we then found
one in an online classified advert for £150. Took a risk, sent off a
cheque and it arrived in perfect condition.

Anyway, skip to the end.. after studying eBay for the next couple of
weeks it was clear that these models are continuously coming up and good
ones always sell for £300 - £400 in the UK. If it works, looks nice in a
photo and has all the bits, you are pretty much sure of a good resale value.

We're keeping ours though, despite the potential for a quick profit.