Before I was able to borrow a scanner (can't afford one on my pension) I tried photographing my slides using my digital camera. My wife has a light box for her needlework projects - it's a flat box with alight-diffusing white plastic sheet and a fluorescent tube inside. The slide is placed on the white sheet and the digi camera on a tripod. The resulting pics are as good as any I scanned with the expensive scanenr I borrowed.