I'll certainly look into a slide scanner and take your words under advisement. Many thanks for the insight, Mark. I'll re-read this another time or two and start making decisions...
keith whaley Mark Roberts wrote: > > Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Time I got around to answering this... > > > >I used to love slides, and took all kinds, from 110s up thru 2 1/4 > >square. Years ago. > >I still have an almost brand new Agfa Reflecta Diamator A projector, > >stored in the top of the clothes closet for the past many years... > >But, print film has taken over, and I guess it's because of what we do > >with the images we take. > >Mine are, without exception, all for personal enjoyment and sharing with > >friends and family. > >Hauling out the projector became a real chore, and, perhaps my fault, I > >used to show everything, instead of culling severely... No editing. A > >mistake if you want to keep a viewer's attention. > > > >Anyhow, the one reason I don't shoot slides today is the heavy inconvenience. > >One just doesn't show slides anymore (well, I don't anyhow.) > >"Hey! C'mon over tonight, Gerri and I are going to be showing our Hawaii pictures!" > >Uh huh... > >"Uhhh, what do you mean, 'showing?'" > >You can't take your slide projector to a restaurant or a bar. > > > >All of which (maybe) points to needing a way to view slides different > >from what I have. At least that comes to mind as a potential solution. > > > >Also, unless slides are the desired end product, what about prints, for > >sharing or particularly sending to family out of state? > >Is printing from slides as costly as it once was? Very time consuming, > >waiting for the photo shop to send them to a Kodak place... > > These days, printing slides should be no more time consuming or > expensive than printing from negatives. The Fuji Frontier and > Kodak/Noritsu DLS machines scan the slide or neg and print the digital > image on ordinary photo paper. Done well it's far superior to either > traditional prints from negs or Ilfochromes from slides. > > I print all my own with an Epson 1270. > > >How about converting to digital? I know nothing at all about costs or > >the inconvenience factors associated therewith. > > Get yourself a slide scanner or have a lab make you a photo CD. Don't > know about the costs of the latter because I've never had it done. I > have a Kodak RFS-3600 and a Minolta Scan Multi II for scanning. > > >Maybe if I did some selling of my slides, I'd have an entirely different viewpoint. > >I suspect almost all of yours fall in that category, and we really have > >no needs or wants in common, except for a love of photography! <grin> > > > >I think I'll end up continuing to think of slides as beautiful way to > >record images, but a millstone for sharing purposes. > > Slide scanners are cheap now and you can share scanned images *very* > easily ;) > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com
