I'm wondering the same thing... I had a cheep Microtek flatbed scanner that had a 35mm film attachment on it and that worked pretty good, or at least I thought it did for what I used it for, which wasn't much, but it broke and the one I replaced it whith doesn't have a film adapter. I scanned some negatives last night with my flatbed scanner. I had to invert them in photo shop to get a positive image and I didn't like it one bit. I priced some film scanners online this morning and they seemed kind of high, compared to a flatbed, but I did like the compact size of them.