A slide coppier, as sugested by a prievious Guest is a good and cheap way to coppy your mono negs. and tranys. but a film scaner is by far the best route. Try www.ffordes.com for good second hand scaners or www.datamind.co.uk for a mind boggeling true optical resolution of 7200 ppi at at an even more mind boggeling £170 complete with Silver Fast SE6. As for manipulation softwear, Adobe of some form, LE, 4,5,6,7, whatever you can get, is by far the best. No question. No argument.