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I use a loupe / light table when picking up slide film from the lab. Love it.
At home I do preview scans that take a couple seconds; these are good enough to decide whether to scan it high-res / multi-pass, or a bit quicker, or not at all.
Like @Föhn said it takes out the fun a bit for me as it's tedious sometimes,
but on the other hand you do get a really great high-res file of your photo for really cheap (assuming you have a scanner - and are then just paying for film developement).
salad
A question to the people using a 35mm scanner - given it takes a while to scan a single frame, how do you proof your negs prior to scanning? Do you use a loupe and a lightbox, or ask the developer to do a contact sheet?
I'm debating whether to buy a scanner (and a printer, FWIW) and I like the 35mm ones for compactness and resolution, but I don't want to spend hours and hours scanning... So trying to figure out a workflow.