How do I digitize slides and negatives?

[laola]

I am on a quest for the best possible (yet not too expensive) way of making digital quality copies of my old 35mm slides and negatives. Any suggestions?

Most people recommend using a scanner but I wondered whether the quality would be better if I used my G2 instead? I thought it might be possible to buy an adapter to mount the slides and negatives in front of the camera, just like slide-duplicators that were once sold for SLR cameras.

[madhg]

There's a discussion of copying slides with G2 + adapter + closeup lenses at

http://www.dpreview.com/forums

Go to the Canon Talk forum, and search on Xtend-a-slide

It seems to give OK but not excellent quality - would be much better with an SLR + good macro lens.