Trouble is I already have two scanners, one flatbed and the other a scanner/printer/copier which I am happy with and don't want to get rid of. I have been quoted £50 to transfer 300 slides onto disc. I can't seem to find just the adapter to go on an existing scanner, they all want you to buy the scanner with the adapter!

Has anyone had any experience of using a slide adaptor to scan scan slides into the computer to digitise them?
Have inherited a lot of slides which would be more convenient to access and use if they were digital and so looking at the options of getting them onto the computer.
Any recommendations would be welcome as I don't know what to look for on this type of equipment. I have been looking at one - a Summit photofix film and slide scanner, but are they are good?

The photographer is a really helpful man, and not at all like this, the one I had the running with isnt the photographer but my lecturer.
(just to clarify )

Thanks for the comments...

This professional is being employed by the university and so doesn't need to market the photos as such, he is just asked to go along and take whatever is asked of him, in this case me and my project!

Unlocker - yes, thats just my way of thinking as well.
It wasn't as though I was saying his photos were rubbish, most of them them were pretty good, just that I had taken some good ones as well.

Before this day, he had previously been complimentary about photos I had taken with an Optio 550, which goes everywhere with me, and which he had been happy to use for a presentation...
Perhaps it was just a bad day.
Mind you last time I caught him on camera, it did look like he was trying to murder someone with an ironing board!.

He isn't normally like that at all, and without him the work I did just would not have been completed and it was a very important piece for me, with the potential to launch my design career. (and he had a final say on grades!!)

But am I wrong in thinking that you don't need to be a professional to take good pictures?

I am being a bit of a devils advocate really to see if it gets under anyone elses skin like it did mine.

Over Easter, I had some photographs taken professionally of myself and my university lecturer in connection with some work, which are going to be used for publicity. While we were on location, I took photographs using my K10 and I felt some of them were good photographs. My lecturer however, dismissed them as a student cannot possibly take a photograph as good as a professional, and my camera was far inferior to his Nikon D200.
I have had photographs published for the last 38 years and feel I know a little about the subject although I am still an enthusiastic amateur.

What does everyone think to this subject, can an amateur take good photographs or do you need to be a professional to take good ones????
What qualities make a good photographer???

I feel very strongly about this but had to leave the subject unresolved because the argument got very heated.

Not that this will probably help much, but I have had an optio 550 virtually since it was launched and I have been delighted with it, and have taken so many photos with it. I have recently bought a K10 but the little optio still goes everywhere with me, just in case. If its successors are as good, then you wont be able to find fault with it. Sorry it is a bit of an old model, but still brilliant all the same!

I have just borrowed one to try it, and it is a wacom intuos 3, A4 size. It is very sensitive, and although I like using it, find it is a bit big and think I would prefer the smaller size, makes my arm ache with so much movement!