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~10,000...Are all of these to be archived or is this the total number that you have? You can quickly see that the mechanical/digital scan time becomes important. Add to that time for any enhancing you need or want to do. Considering film handling and all that entails, 10 - 15 minutes per frame in calculating your total work load. That might affect your choice... your time cost/value vs. hardware cost.

I'm working from contact sheets and previously culled slides and negatives...only the 'good' frames will be scanned. So this is also something that you should consider.

That's the total number.
The entire collecion is in various boxes, but the slide boxes themselves are chronologically to hand.

I'm guessing a dedicated scanner w/some kind of autofeeder would be pretty pricey.
Many of them I've not seen in years, so manually previewing/culling them would be waaaaaay time consuming, hence the thought of something w/autofeed.

Will prolly find myself better off trusting them to someplace set up w/that gear, but have no idea of per slide costs.

Thanks for replying.
I'm headed to bed but will check back tomorrow/today...