Digitize old negative films (and photo)

[yorick]

Hello,

I found a lot of old photos from film photography (negative + printed pictures) from my family and I would like to digitize them in order to "backup" and reproduce them.

I looked for specific scanners and I found some like:
- Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II
- Epson Perfection V370 Photo
- Scanner Photo HP Scanjet G4050

They achieve from 4800 to 9600 dpi (from what I learned, it should be sufficient, at least for not-too-big prints). They have special support (and I hope special software) to handle negatives in contrary to standard scanners.

Did anybody try such scanning ? What stuff did you use ? Or did you ask a profesionnal to do it ?
I don't mind spending 200-300 $ for a good scanner as I think it would interess a lot a people around me. If I can avoid scanning with a DSLR such as http://www.petapixel.com/2012/05/18/...s-with-a-dslr/ it would be better

Thank you !