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Hi, I retired some 11 years ago and undertook a similar project. Here is my experience.
I purchased an Epson V700 scanner and was using an early version of Lightroom (LR). The scanner has worked well (never had to replace the lamp) although I have replaced both the film strip and slide holder as the plastic cracked.
I scanned the slide, colour negs, and B&W films at 2400 dpi - I tried 3200 but could see little advantage. I had planned to go back and rescan at higher resolution but have never found the need. I have scanned over 900 rolls Cneg (mostly 36exp), 60 boxes slide and 100 rolls B&W along with copying albums,
My work flow is to clean films (puffer brush), load holder and scan. i used the Epson professional software. While the scan is running I process the previous run in LR. I add key words as I process.
I found it very important to develop a film numbering system - both for the physical film and the digital scan version so I knew what had been done and I could track back if a rescan was necessary. The tiff files varied from 20 - 35MB each and I saved an approx 2.5MB jpg for easy searching. I use Picasa which will show the key words without accessing menu's. While Picasa is not available easily from Google I can give you a link to the Google Picasa +installer version.
Allan
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