Thanx for the responses. Have been thinking very hard on this and after some more phone calls and such to some reputable dealers it seems that they can only transfer a negative to a jpeg.......not what I am after.

Correct me if I am wrong with my thinking but wouldn't a 35mm negative be the equivalent of today's digital RAW file? If this is correct and at all possible, this would be what sort of convert from film I would like, but it doesn't sound like I'm going to get that