I’ve been a semi-serious photographer since I was in high school, and I’ve always shot slides for the most part. I was an early adopter of digital photography; initially I carried three instead of my usual two cameras, and captured key scenes with both film and electrons. After the first few years, as digital cameras improved, the film cameras started being used less and less. Eventually, on a couple of trips, film just went along for the ride.
So now the time has come, I have 20,000 slides in boxes; most carefully cataloged, and most have never been seen since the last post-vacation slide show. While the full glory of a perfectly projected slide is hard to match, the practical considerations are that anything not in digital form is just not going to be used. Years ago I had a few slides converted, and more recently I’ve bought and used a slide scanner to scan a few hundred; but it’s just too slow and tedious.
… so, I’ve gone whole hog; I bought an expensive slide scanner with a feeder, and can feed it a box at a time. 1000 slides scanned, 19,000 to go. I figure about a year at a leisurely pace ought to do it. Who knows, I may dispose of my darkroom too!
Notes on converting slides
Notes on converting lp records
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Going Digital
I’ve been a semi-serious photographer since I was in high school, and I’ve always shot slides for the most part. I was an early adopter of digital photography; initially I carried three instead of my usual two cameras, and captured key scenes with both film and electrons. After the first few years, as digital cameras improved, the film cameras started being used less and less. Eventually, on a couple of trips, film just went along for the ride.
So now the time has come, I have 20,000 slides in boxes; most carefully cataloged, and most have never been seen since the last post-vacation slide show. While the full glory of a perfectly projected slide is hard to match, the practical considerations are that anything not in digital form is just not going to be used. Years ago I had a few slides converted, and more recently I’ve bought and used a slide scanner to scan a few hundred; but it’s just too slow and tedious.
… so, I’ve gone whole hog; I bought an expensive slide scanner with a feeder, and can feed it a box at a time. 1000 slides scanned, 19,000 to go. I figure about a year at a leisurely pace ought to do it. Who knows, I may dispose of my darkroom too!
Notes on converting slides
Notes on converting lp records
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