Negative scanners - any good?

[fleebee]

Am looking to buy one to scan in my wedding photos, have heard mixed reports re the quality and as I plan to do album of photos the quality has to be good! Jessops charge �10 per 36 negs so is worth buying the scanner if it works! Also need one compatible with Mac and PC. Any thoughts.......

[fo3nix]

The Nikon Coolscan models are among the best, and do give very good results. The one we have is a few years old now, so they'll be cheaper and with more features. They come with features like ICE which removes hairs and things like that from the negatives.

[ACtheTROLL]

sort of agree with neil
no scanner will give you a finished article - you'll always need (or at least want) to tickle it up

Mine's a HP - used mainly for "photocopying" and OCR - it's got a good negative carrier ... but to scan in at high resolution takes ages - then there are the inevitable hairs, scratches, you have to be able to use a photo editor...

it depends how hands on you want to be
jessops may charge ... but .....