I'm currently scanning in all the b&w negatives I have and it's taking what seems like an age! I must have at least 150 to scan in from the past 6 or so months but at least once I clear the backlog I just have to keep on top of it. It's amazing to see how I've progressed with my control of the camera and camera techniques, as well as what a difference various cameras make. At the start of my whole venture into film again, I was using a Minolta (I couldn't even tell you the model) for free from some guy at college, and it was very very basic. It seemed like an SLR yet I couldn't change aperture/shutter speed etc. Confusing. Anyway, things really started heating up photo wise just before Christmas when I got my Canon EOS 3000N, though it took me a couple of films to perfect the workings of it. Having been used to the Minolta automatically doing it for me, when it came to manually adjusting aperture or shutter speed, I wasn't checking that the opposite was suitable, which resulted in many under/overexposed photos. At one point, a 36exp film had only 8 or 10 useable photos! I got quite depressed at that point and began to doubt my ability as a photographer and if I wanted to continue, but thankfully I sucked it up and persevered, and have had pretty much full rolls of film since.
I'm using a Plustek OpticFilm 7200 negative scanner to scan the negative into raw format, and then using Adobe Lightroom to play about with them. I must say this is a fantastic little programme, not just for scanned photos. It gives you the ability to organise and sort any photos you import to it, for example tagging them and suchlike. I'm probably way behind the times, but if you don't have it already I suggest you aquire it somehow... Very useful for large collections of photos!
Back to the scanning...