heyduke
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ahhh took a practice retirement day off again today... started converting all my 35 mm slides into digital photos so I can toss the old slide projector...
I have a huge box of slides I need to convert to digital. Earlier today DW ordered this for me as a birthday gift. Hope it works as well as the reviewers say it does.ahhh took a practice retirement day off again today... started converting all my 35 mm slides into digital photos so I can toss the old slide projector...
I have a huge box of slides I need to convert to digital. Earlier today DW ordered this for me as a birthday gift. Hope it works as well as the reviewers say it does.
I have a huge box of slides I need to convert to digital. Earlier today DW ordered this for me as a birthday gift. Hope it works as well as the reviewers say it does.
my next real challenge is digitizing old 8mm film strips.... ideas?
That should do fine. Several (5+) years ago, I had the same problem as well as having many more "negatives." I purchased a Microtek i900 primarily because it was the only scanner, at the time, that didn't have a sheet of glass between the lens and the positive/negative. It also scans 14" sheets of paper and the old large (up to 8x10) negatives -- of which I had quite a few. Now I have two (well, 1½) 1TB hard drives filled with digital images. Then came all that expense involved in cataloging such a collection. Have fun.
How to you catalog your collection? Do you use a particular software?
no software for me ... just cataloging the old fashioned way... new folder... rename folder... add photo ... rename.. photo ... repeat till done
You should start by purchasing "The Dam Book." Better advice cannot be found anywhere else.
I use Portfolio.
For literally years I've had all these photos I was going to organize, videotape I was going to transfer to the computer and edit and so on. We hope to soon sell our house and downsize and I had a lot of this stuff and realized I was likely not getting around to it.
So I researched and found www.digmypics.com and sent them my photos, some APS canisters, film negatives and video tapes. They scanned it all in, color corrected and enhanced the photos. I had color pictures from over 40 years ago that were very faded but the scans look great.
They can also do the 8mm movies. I inheritied a box of them that my dad took when I was a child. I haven't sent those in yet.
Basically they did a much better job of this than I would have done and they did it much faster (I've had some of this in my to be done pile for 15 years).
If you need to scan color negatives, or are using a flat-bed scanner to scan in photographs, look at vuescan.
And how do you name all this so that when get, for example, over 100,000 images you can quickly find that photograph of devils Tower that you believe you shot in 1969? And then how about 500,000 images?
iPhoto includes tons of ways to organize your photos, including face recognition.
-ERD50