I happened to do Soccer, but with the same goal in mind. First, get Vuescan (www.hamrick.com). Best $40 you'll ever spend. If you get the white and black points right, and scan at 1/7, (it's in downsample somewhere in Vuescan -- I think you just put in 7. You might try 8 or 9 too), you get webready images. Put them all in a directory as JPEGs, about 75% quality.
Second, get a second carrier (slide or neg, whichever you use). It doubles your scanning efficiency to be loading one while one is scanning. Under $20. Third, create another directory with the same name, but add -Webpage. It cannot be a subdirectory. Use Photoshop to build a quick webpage. File->Automate->Web Photo Gallery. Your picture directory as source and your -Webpage as the destination. It will create a file called Index.Htm in the destination directory. At the hockey rink, open IE (or Netscape) and open that file. That's it. You can do the same thing with Polacolor, I just find Vuescan easier. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:12 AM Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help > Fairly new with a film scanner. Have Polaroid 4000 and using Polarcolor and > Photoshop 6.0 at present - Silverfast later. > > Situation, I shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 & 300/2.8) for our > team. Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for parents > to see and then buy those that they like, which I will then rescan at higher > resolution and correct. > > What is the quickest method to accomplish this? In addition, we manage the > kids web site and would like to be able to transfer this first scan down to > web-ready image. > > Have several hundred photos to handle and need the most effective method. > Any and all suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks - From an overworked volunteer parent!