Reddit mentions of Jumbl 22MP All-in-1 Film & Slide Scanner (Black)

Digitizing old slides/negatives really comes down to a couple options:

• Good quality, but expensive using a service like ScanCafe. The biggest upside is that you're not doing it yourself, you send them out and have them done.
  
• High quality, but slow using something like a DSLR + macro lens and lightbox. You'll get great quality, but it'll take a long time and you'll need to hand-crop the images afterwards. You can get some extremely impressive results, but you'll be hand-retouching each image so that slows down the process.
  
• Lower quality, medium speed using something like a cheap 35mm slide scanner. You'll have to load the images in one-by-one, but you get results more quickly than you would if you're doing it using a digital camera + macro lens.
  
  Also I would cull the number down if possible. Five thousand slides is a LOT, I'd start by determining what needs prioritization to be digitized and then saving the rest for later if you end up doing it yourself.

I mean, you have to scan it somehow if you want it on your computer. :-)

There's no magic method; pay a lab to scan them, scan them yourself on a scanner or use a digital camera with macro mode, or... well, that's about it really.

I suppose if you don't mind it looking terrible you could use one of the cheap things on Amazon, but you're already a third of the way to the price of a PrimeFilm XE, which is one of the better 35mm scanners out there right now.

My cousin raves about his Jumbl slide/film scanner. He's been digitalizing his father's photos for a while now.

http://www.amazon.com/Jumbl-High-Resolution-All-In-1-Scanner-Digitizer/dp/B00LU0XO3O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420322204&sr=8-1&keywords=negative+scanner

Its actually a digital camera with some special software and light bed to illuminate the negative all built together.

What about something like this?