scanners

I would like to hear from people what scanners everyone uses to scan photos. I have many photo albums and would like to scan all my photos to my computer. Right now I have a HP5100c flatbed scanner and it takes so long to scan one photo let alone the 1000's I have. Three things I am looking for in a scanner. Quality,speed and would like to not have to crop the picture after scanning. If anyone knows of a scanner that fits this description please post it.
Thanks

I use a Canon 9950. Excellent scanner that scans all different formats. I can even put them in random arrangement and the scanner software realigns them and crops them for me.

I have an Epson 4180, it does a decent job but will be replaced by the new highend Epson flat bed and a Nikon Coolscan 9000 for negs.

rklepper wrote in post #2391898
I use a Canon 9950. Excellent scanner that scans all different formats. I can even put them in random arrangement and the scanner software realigns them and crops them for me.

I have this same scanner. Like rklepper said, you can scan multiple 35mm images--both positive and negative, 120mm and up to 4X5. All the scanner frames or film guides to support the negatives are included.
The OCR software is very good, IMHO. I have paid for OCR software and the software that came with the scanner is somewhat better. Of course my other scanner was an old HP with a SCSI interface. And it still works well after 10 years.

Jake