Excellent investment if preserving the past

Excellent scanner. almost too easy to get started. Takes a little while of playing to change the defaults to what you want. Was able to restore everything but the poorest. Still lost some from fungus, but so fat have scanned 400 of an eventual 2000 or so that I will scan. Once you set it up to filter and correct all the colors and scratches, it takes 8 to 10 minutes per slide with final adjustments to colors on a Pentium 4 with 2.0 GB with 1 GB of ram. On a Pentium M 1.8 GB with similar ram I was able to cut almost 2 minutes off the time. It takes 100% of the processor while it is scanning, so don't think of using other apps.