Preparing Slides for iPhoto

This is more a general question about digitizing photos. I want to scan years of color slides to bring into my iPhoto library. Has anyone any useful experience of this. The cost of commercial scanning is such that it would probably be more cost effective to buy a suitable scanner. For example can anyone recommend a good value scanner that would take mounted slides? Does he differing thickness of slide mounts create any problem? Does anyone know anything about the Konica Minolta Dimage IV 35mm film/slide scanner? Or can you suggest the best approach to take.
Thanks in advance.

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Apples comments on this are here
Of the negative comments posted here nearly all of them were from people who spend lots of time and energy adjusting photos trying to second guess the printing process and failing to do so - Apple does have an unconditional sastisfaction guarentee - do it the simple way - less is more in this case
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remulak:
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I think this discussion thread would be helpful.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4742323?start=0&tstart=0
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