I totally agree that Epson is the way to go .

But you said:

Don't need one with slide transparency capabilities.

I'm very glad that my scanner has slide transparency capabilities....I keep getting slides in the mail from eBay auctions that I didn't bid on! All I have to do is scan them, and add the slide to our collection . (With the slides that I already received, and the ones that are on the way, the buyer probably could have bought a scanner by now...but I'm not going to tell him that! )