I hate to admit how I digitized my slides, but it was cheap and fun to do. I set up my old slide projector to show the slide on a white smooth wall. I then set my digital camera on a tripod just above the projector and took a picture of the projected image. Since the projected image was large and smooth, the digital photo didn't have a pixel problem when enlarged.
Since some of the old slides had either started to fade or color shift, I then used one of the free photo editing programs to bring back the photo to an acceptable image. It took me several nights of sitting in a dark bedroom, but it was fun seeing all those slides again. And although the images aren't professional quality on my computer, they probably weren't professional quality when I took the slide either, I'm actually remembering the event when I took the photo and the memory looks really great.
And now I can connect the computer to the TV and bore some of my friends with my "slide show" of our long past vacations all over again.
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