A friend of mine retired with similar thoughts, tried, got too lazy. I convinced him to package up all his old slides and negs, send them to ScanCafe.com. He did, paid a good bit of money for the work, and they did a great job. Of course, his innate laziness and sloth means he now has a huge library of completely unedited, unorganized scans on his computer which he'll get a Round Tuit to deal with somewhere in the next eon.
ugh. I have my old libraries of slides and film. I scanned them all once, years ago, but scanning tools and image processing methodology has improved so dramatically since then that I might just re-scan them all. I'll review my old scans and, if they're good, that'll be the end of it. Otherwise I'll make one more pass at it … the film is degrading and they'll never get any better than they are now. Once I have a format setup vetted, I can scan up to about 100 exposures per hour for any given format. Scanned, sucked into LR Classic with some keywords for organization, metadata saved to disk … I figure there's about a month's worth of work to do if I put in two/three hours a day at it. What I'll then do with the library … No idea. I have no idea who might be interested in it in the future. Maybe I should just create a compendium book with all of it in there and file a copy with the Library of Congress in case some future photo researcher wants to see what one nut case with a camera (or twenty…) did with his spare time and cash… LOL! G — No matter where you go, there you are. > On Dec 1, 2022, at 1:56 AM, Bob Pdml <pdm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Divide and conquer! > > I retired a couple of years ago with the same intentions. After a few > half-hearted first attempts then putting everything in a cupboard for 18 > months, I now have a process I’m fairly happy with. > > Once you’re happy with your set-up you’ll probably be able to raw scan each > carousel in a couple of hours at most. Then when you’ve done the donkey work > you can concentrate on editing the best images. > >> On 1 Dec 2022, at 01:28, Rick Womer wrote: >> >> Just looking around the room, I have 22 loose-leaf notebooks filled with >> slide pages, and 9 140-slide carousels. >> >> I always told myself I’d do something about them when I retired… but in a >> year and a half nothing has happened yet. >> >> Rick >> >> >> >>>> Of course before I can do any scanning I'm going to need to get a scanner. >>>> While >>>> the high-end Epson 800 looks nice, it costs a lot more than the 600. It >>>> also gets >>>> mixed reviews. I haven't started looking around seriously yet, though - >>>> I'll get >>>> the digital/digitised stuff sorted out first before opening that can of >>>> worms. >>> >>> If I was more ambitious, I'd buy a scanner and hire a high school or >>> college student to scan my negatives, and other people's as well. >>> >>> -- >>> > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
