Looking for Pixma plus 35mm slide scanning!

Hello.
I used to have a Canon Pixma printer with a 35mm scanning facility built in to the lid. Broke down some time ago, unfortunately.
And now Canon don't do Pixma printers with 35mm scanning.
Been scouring the internet for an MG8250 or equivalent, with no luck. I don't WANT to change from Pixma. I think it's possibly the best colour print system you can buy, but I do need that 35mm slide scanning facility, so any suggestions as to an alternative product, i.e. a good quality colour printer (plus copier plus flatbed scanner plus 35mm slide scanner), offering similar print quality as the Pixma?
I suppose one alternative is to buy a stand-alone 35mm neg scanner, but I also have a number of ancient (1890s) large b&w negatives so a 35mm-only carrier wouldn't do - I need something where I can use bits of tape etc. to hold odd-sized films.
Thanks for reading, and I hope someone has a suggestion or two.
Allen.

Aside from looking at the pretty transitions, did you read
the rest of the
page? See the part where it says "Step 1 - copy and
paste....."
Then do Step 2. It just can't get any easier than that.
Read the bit underneath step 2 and it tells you how the
script can be used
multiple times on a page - Again - step 1: you give it a new
name in the
javascript file, and add the names and paths of the images
for the
consecutive slides you wish to display. Then, again, Step 2 -
you call the
slideshow somewhere on your page.
Without sounding condescending, sit back, read the
instructions again, and
have a go at implementing them into your page.
Upload your efforts, post a link to the page, and we'll be
able to help you
further if you need it.
You can describe what you have, how you want it to work, but
until we see a
page live, its a bit hard to help further.
Last resort, spring for a paid solution to do it all for you
(which I highly
recommend) -
http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/ssm/index.htm
Brendon
"Fugasi" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gju0dl$olu$[email protected]..
> Brendon-
>
> >I've used this one many times before with good
success:
>
> I don't know how to use this, its a bunch of code.
>
> 1. Do I C&P this and paste it into my page? Where on
the page?
> 2. I actually want to have four separate slide shows
happening at once on
> the
> same page. Will this code allow me to do that?
> 3. Right now I have four photos in-line horizontally in
non-css table. I
> want
> those four to interchange as a slow dissolve slide show.
How do I specify
> that
> I want the slide show to appear in the table cells?
>
> Thanks
>

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For scanning 35mm slides you need a scanner with a good photometric resolution and geometric resolution.
For the photometric resolution: Get a scanner with a high density range (D-max) value, to get a good resolution of highlights and shadows.
For the geometric resolution - sharpness and detail - try to get at least 3200 dp,i to be able to get good 8"x10" prints from your scanned slides, a higher dpi value, if you want to be able to print larger images.

Transfering scanned 35mm slides

What is the suggested file size for scanned 35mm slides to transfer to iDVD? My file sizes I believe are too small at about 260Kb per image, and I think the processor is working so hard to bring them up to the iDVD format, that more often then not, during the burn process my computer will freeze up entirely. And the ones that do complete the burn process, the images are poor quality when watched on a regular television. I am currently using an Epson Perfection to perform the scanning process. thanks for any help.

oliviagrace,
See iDVD 6.0 Help - Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html
It will answer your qurstion.

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