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Basil

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And ran across some of my EType circa 1984-85

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great pics boss! (as an aside, do you have a special unit to scan negatives?)
 
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great pics boss! (as an aside, do you have a special unit to scan negatives?)
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I have a rather old (probably 15 years old) Epson RX600 all-in-one printer/scanner, but the scanner is painfully slow and limited in resolution. I have recently ordered an Epson V550 scanner in order to get a bit better speed and better resolution for archival purposes. I want to start archiving all my old prints, negatives and slides for posterity. My current scanner (and the new V550 on order) has a special holder for slides and negatives. Then I use Lightroom CC for post processing (clean up dust and scratched, improve color, etc.
 
Great photos Bas, The Jag really puts all those new Chevys to shame.
 
I have an Epson V600, I use it to scan my vintage images (prints, slides, negatives), but negatives and slides are very time consuming to scan compared to prints...

Some examples?

Vintage print, taken here in Alberta many years ago...

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Kodachrome slide, Speaker's Corner in London, 1960's... Does he have you convinced? :highly_amused:

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Medium format negative, Canadian prairies...

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It works well for me, it's an older scanner by now as I've had it for several years, I have no need to replace it...
 
so can I use a normal scanner (I have an HP all in one) or do I need the attachment?
 
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so can I use a normal scanner (I have an HP all in one) or do I need the attachment?
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I don't know anything about the HP product line, but it looks like the "all in one" refers to a "Printer/Copier/Scanner/Fax", I'm going to guess it only has a flat bed scanner for documents and photos...

The two most popular scanners on the market are either Epson or Canon... My Epson, and probably the one Basil is buying, has a flat bed to scan documents and prints... But where you cover the flat bed there is a light strip used to scan other media like negatives and slides, I think for around $200 you can get into a basic scanner like that... There are some very specialized scanners that only do negatives but they are very expensive!
 
Speaking of old negs; we are in the process of cleaning my mother in laws house and just yesterday found a large amount of 8mm color film. A couple of rolls were from my wife's sixth birthday and other family gatherings.
Can they be put on disc? Who would do this? Thanks!
 
Yes. My father had our entire family's 8mm collection converted to digital media. There are video production companies that can do this for you. There are also DIY kits available through photo suppliers. I believe B&H Photo in New York would have them.
 
Have never done 8mm, but I have an Elgato Converter w/Software that allowed me to convert all on my VHS tapes (home movies and otherwise) to digital. Quality is very close to original tapes.
 
Here's some nostalgia! When I was in Junior High (7th, 8th, part of 9th) we lived in Germany at the 98th General Hospital, Neubruke, Germany. Years later, when I was a 2nd Lt, I was TDY to Germany and took some leave to visit my old stomping grounds. The building I'm in front of is the apartment I used to live in as a boy. We were third floor, left. My best friend Mike (we are good friends to this day) lived on the first floor right. My first
job" was cleaning (sweeping and moping) the stairwells in this building for a whooping $12 a month! I bought my first electric guitar with money I earned from that job!

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Great great pics! (and thanks for the scanning clarification all)
 
JPSmit said:
Great great pics! (and thanks for the scanning clarification all)
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Any more questions? Unless you really know what you're doing, or are committed to learning it well, it's generally best to farm out stuff like that... It really is very time consuming, even simply scanning prints...

I probably have well over 1,000 vintage found images, just prints, not counting negatives and slides... And I don't scan all of them, I only scan the best examples...
 
Sherlock said:
Any more questions? Unless you really know what you're doing, or are committed to learning it well, it's generally best to farm out stuff like that... It really is very time consuming, even simply scanning prints...

I probably have well over 1,000 vintage found images, just prints, not counting negatives and slides... And I don't scan all of them, I only scan the best examples...
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Farming out is likely the way to go. We are currently culling photos and have a bag of negatives. somewhere in that bag is our wedding negatives and I suspect I will just have to sort one day to find them - but, once found, they are the only ones I really want - not worth buying a unit for less than 50 negatives.
 
We have a roll of exposed 8mm film in a sealed can that was taken years ago and got lost in time, to be found on our last move. We've been told there is no one available who can develop it anymore, as the chemicals are no longer available, is this true? PJ
 
Gliderman8 said:
Speaking of old negs; we are in the process of cleaning my mother in laws house and just yesterday found a large amount of 8mm color film. A couple of rolls were from my wife's sixth birthday and other family gatherings.
Can they be put on disc? Who would do this? Thanks!
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Probably the easiest source for film-DVD transfer is Costco.

Not surprisingly, here in SoCal, center of the film/TV production universe, there are lots of outfits that do film transfer and it's a pretty competitive market. So if you live someplace that doesn't have a local facility you can ship them.

Used to have a buddy that did film-DVD transfer at home. But he was and industry guy, did some producing, did some acting, did some stunt driving, had a day job...
 
I sort of inherited responsibility for my family's huge pile of stills by default. They basically sat in numerous boxes throughout my Mom's house for years untouched, except for my sister occasionally digging into them and scanning a few images here and there.

My current plan is to pay one of the kids in the family to scan and organize them as a summer job when they're teenagers.
 
Pc, I think the summer job for one of your family's teenagers is a fantastic idea, especially when you consider the amount of family history they will get sorting through the old photos.
 
I am still scanning film via the Minolta Dimage II I bought on ebay years ago. It was pretty much state of the art at one time, and the same model that many pro shops used at one time. I use VueScan software with the unit. Right now it is packed for our move to new digs, but I hope to start up again after the move. I periodically do film scans until I feel burned out on that, and then move to my flatbed and scan more prints. Lately I have been scanning the prints at 1200 dpi.
 
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