Reply #8: The Epson 4490 works decently...

[regnaD kciN]

It's probably not as good as a dedicated film scanner, but it does the job, and was reasonably priced last time I checked.

A word of warning, though: scanning a large collection of old negs and slides isn't something to do casually in a spare afternoon. Scanning each image takes far longer than you would first expect -- and cleaning up the resulting digitized images takes even longer. I still have a huge backlog of photos from 1972-1991 to scan, and will be pleased if I get them all done by this time next year.