Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread ann sanfedele
Love that first one! .. and like the second more upon reading your post with the rhyme in it.. I thought I was going to organize even more and prune and scan for several years.. it isn't happening.. but when I was still sending stuff to stock agency back in the late 80's and early 90's I had a

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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 li

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 01.12.22 um 21:12 schrieb l...@red4est.com: I love the Seussian nature of the second title It's an old German counting rhyme for childrens' games. Eins zwei, Polizei, drei, vier, Grenadier, fünf, sechs, alte Hex, sieben, acht, Gute Nacht. The 'alte Hex' is an old witch. The rest should be

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread lrc
I love the Seussian nature of the second title On December 1, 2022 12:03:29 PM PST, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >Am 01.12.22 um 20:40 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: > >> I have my old libraries of slides and film. I scanned them all once, years >> ago, but scanning tools and image processing methodolog

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 01.12.22 um 20:40 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: 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: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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 li

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-12-01 Thread Bob Pdml
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 c

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-11-30 Thread Rick Womer
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 > On Nov 29, 2022, at 1:38 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > >

Re: Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-11-28 Thread Larry Colen
> On Nov 28, 2022, at 9:27 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > 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,

Organizing photo archives (was Re: Old Shutterbug articles)

2022-11-28 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 08:36:19PM -0500, Stan Halpin wrote: > I wish my brother John had done more sorting and purging. But his life got > complicated by Parkinson???s etc in 2015 and he was unwilling/unable to do > much with his photo archives or other stuff after that. Physical and > cognitiv