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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 28, 2009 - 06:11pm PT
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Previously should the house go on fire, the first things I would save was my 5.000+ slides. They represent a substantial part of my life and shows some of the silly thing I have been doing through the years.
Now I have borrowed a very good slide scanner, which – besides from being 3-4 times better and sharper than my own – is equipped with automatic feeder for 25-40 slides. So I am starting from an end, and 300-400 slides have been scanned and photoshopped during the last few nights. Our dining table is filled up with viewers, light table, cleaning brushes, heaps of old glassframes (as I change them with glass-less). My family is concerned about my dwindling social capacities, but that is nothing compared to my urgent di(a)lemma:
What should I do with the scanned dias?
I can clean the dust off the digital versions, and enhance the shadows to an extend my good old Leitz projector never would. And I have now seen and showed pictures that haven't been out in the open for 25 years or more.
Should I throw them out? Will I ever again take out the screen and projector table and switch on the Leitz?
What should I do?
Regards
Michael
Danes Tobias and Søren checking the GPS on a gold prospecting expedition to Northeast Greenland (Ymer Ø), 1992. Noah Lake and Dusén Fjord behind:
Exploring for gold on Ymer Ø, 1992
Work finished at 1 am.
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UncleDoug
climber
No. Lake Tahoe, CA
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Jan 28, 2009 - 06:22pm PT
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I say don't toss them.
Keep them in "deep storage".
Re package them as air-tight as you can. Then put them in a box in a dark corner of a closet or part of the house that stays relatively the same temperature year-round.
Check this site out.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum
Great site for photography related talk and a wealth of knowledge.
Pekka, the owner, is from Helsenki, your general neck of the woods.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jan 28, 2009 - 06:40pm PT
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wow! what kind of scanner?
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2009 - 06:41pm PT
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Nikon's Coolscan 5000
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jan 28, 2009 - 07:28pm PT
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File the slides (this might be a chance to re-organize them) and plan to keep them
forever. You can now save children, pets and spouse first in case of a fire, but
otherwise, you might someday want to return to those slides with a better scanner
or some unforeseen new purpose. I've got mine in notebooks that take up a whole
bookcase in what used to be one of our kids' bedroom. And I already have found
reasons to return to previously scanned slides, and scan them again.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jan 28, 2009 - 09:01pm PT
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Yeah, Chi and Walleye have the right idea.
Scanner tech is going to get better rather than worse.
i wish I had the time to scan mine-- I'm missing maybe half, but still have stacks. Maybe I'll upgrade my scanner
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apogee
climber
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Jan 28, 2009 - 09:09pm PT
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Any suggestions on a reasonably good scanner that will allow bulk scanning? I have nowhere near the photographic skill that Michael has (nice shots, by the way!), but I would like a decent quality slide scanner, and I have at hundreds of slides I'd like to digitize...
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jan 28, 2009 - 09:20pm PT
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yeah, pack 'em tight,and put'rem in a safe place. In event of disaster, save your breathing 'children' first.
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