I'm over here in Milwaukee, mjs1973, so it's a little far for me to go to Star Photo in Madison, but I appreciate the suggestion.

You were right about the scanning resolutions, Jurgen... I went to one of the local camera shop/photo finishers here in town, and they told me that their film scanner has different resolutions that film can be scanned at. The local drugstores and Walmarts don't offer that option. So, I'm going to take your advice about the print film Jurgen and shoot a couple of test photos and have the photo shop develop them and make a photo CD for me and see if higher scanning resolution is the answer to getting quality digital images.

And if that doesn't work out then I guess I'll break down and pick up one of those cheap digital point and shoot jobs... I see HP makes one with a fixed non-zoom lens, and it's been my experience that fixed lenses in general offer better image quality than zooms, so maybe the HP will take decent enough pics. I'll keep you posted...