By Gayle Franklin [email protected] Perhaps I can help with the problem of fading fast. My father-in-law was a prolific photographer. He had traveled the world over with the Navy, including one journey with the last Admiral Byrd expedition to Antarctica in 1955-56. About five years ago, my husband taped his dad as they viewed six carousels of slides. We hoped to have them put on a compact discs (CDs) and the voice added--someday. Early this year I went into a local large discount store. I wanted about 200 slides printed, which their in-house photo department did at a reasonable rate. I asked if they know of anyone who would transfer slides to CD. They said they offered that service at the cost of $8.99 per CD with about 140 slides on a CD. I brought in the six carousel trays the next day. They did a great job. My husband used PowerPoint to add the audio, and we can now send copies to all the family. * * * By Bill Hallman [email protected] Anyone with a flat bed scanner and a CD recorder could do it (convert slides). Generally the software supplied with the scanner and with the CD recorder, should be sufficient. Betty Winsett has a webpage describing a simple method of scanning slides on flat bed scanners. It is located at: http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html Don Maxwell has a webpage with the same method and a few hints at: http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/fluoroflash.html