Despite the fact that we live in the digital age, many people still use film. The popularity of Holga Cameras, in particular, has led to a renewed interest to store and catalogue images from film. Also, there are plenty of people who have old film negatives (and slides) lying around with which they want to do something.
If you want to sort and catalogue your positives and negatives in Aperture, the first step is to get them scanned and imported. There are a couple of options for doing this. You can have a lab do them for you, which is the easiest option. If you have a film scanner, you can scan them yourself. The third method that some people use, while not ideal, is to use a digital camera and either a macro lens on a light box, or a special holder designed for mounting slides on the end of a lens. If you are using a macro lens and a light box, you need to use some kind of stand to hold your camera steady, and at right angles to the light box.
There are also special...