Hi all --- Some comments about photo-CD and in-house digitizing. Photo-CD is an excellent way to convert slides or photographs into a friendly format. The resolution for photo-CD is tremendous really (you can get up to 3000X2000). However, the cost per slide or negative is approximately $1.00. Once the photo-CD is done, you will of course need a CD-ROM drive to read the images and some kind of good program to convert and manipulate the images. I have not used Adobe PhotoShop, but I have heard that it can deal with photo-CD images. It is also an excellent program for editing, etc... Buying a slide digitizer is also a possibility. Depending on how many images you plan to digitize, a slide digitizer can save you money in the long run over photo-CD. Slide digitizers range in price depending on what kind of quality you demand. The price/performance curve starts leveling out around $1500. A good slide digitizer will give image resolution on the order of 1000X1000. Most slide digitizers include some kind of imaging box, a card to stick into a slot expansion and a program. Some, I guess, use SCSI ports. I have some information gleaned from various computer magazines that I can pass along if people are interested, like names of companies that sell slide digitizers. Hope this helps. Cheers, Robert Guralnick | Museum of Paleontology | University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 | [log in to unmask] | (510) 642-9696