Yes, 2006, because this will be time consuming. I want to be able to give both my children, and their children, a history of the family by providing copies of all the pictures in the photo albums. No quibbling over who gets what after the reading of the will. Hopefully this won't be for a few decades yet but the pictures are fading fast. I'm going to buy a scanner in the New Year and get started doing a few pictures a day. 30 years ago the ultimate in new pictures storage was the photo album where you just placed your photo on the sticky page under the plastic cover. They are a mucky mess now.
I'm even going to take a deep breath and scan the photos with their father included. After I do these, I'm going to get the family photos from my mother.
Then it will be time to start on DH's former life. This is starting to sound like Christmas, 2007.
Anyone who wants their parents to do this for them could give a scanner and hints this Christmas.
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adapeters for some scanners, some even come with - there is an Epson that I know of that will do it . . . and it can be bought at Staples I am sure
I know you can get those done at Ginn's Photo in Ottawa (Bank near Gladstone), Throop Photo on Merivale and possibly a few other places - those two also do higher end scans (priced accordingly) so make sure you explain the intended end-result
[url]http://www.ginnphoto.on.ca/[/url]
[url]http://www.throopphoto.com/[/url]
if you have a very large number of slides to do, maybe getting a slide scanner (designed to scan negatives and slides, not a flatbed adapter deal) would make sense - you do the math... the Plustek at $189 +shipping etc (3rd down the page) seems to have good reviews... - could always sell it on Ebay after you're done (or find a used one there too).... - btw you won't find those types of scanners at the usual suspects (FutureShop, BestBuy, etc)
[url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=297[/url]
doing them on a flatbed is ok in a pinch but as the area is so small, the resolution won't be sufficient - plus the slide film won't be directly agaisnt the glass so there's a focus issue as well....
No it won't hurt the slide (well unless something like coffee gets on them while they are out of their case). Baiscally it's just putting them in a holder of some sort and taking a picture of them or loading them into a holder and using them like a negative is used for printing.
I was looking at a Cannon scanner with high resolution. It was also especially designed to do slides. I wonder if that would make a difference.
Does it ruin the slide? Good idea, I think I will call around. $1/slide will be extremely expensive...alot of slides!
You have a couple of options with slides. Some scanners have attachments to do slides although the ones I've seen done are pretty much a waste of time (or maybe the person who did them didn't do them right I don't know). You can only see the image on a monitor, they are too small to print.
Pros have better equipment for that and you'd have to call around to see what it would cost. If memory serves, when I called around last year it was over $1 a slide.
The easiest approach is to take the slides to a place that prints and have prints made (which can then be scanned if you want). again you have to watch price as prints from slides are usually more expensive than normal prints.
It can be a pretty expensive proposition if you have heeps of slides but I don't know of any other options.
Also, unless you go with cibrachrome or something similar (very expensive) process, you have to allow for loss of colour etc. Slides will make for slightly dark photos (as the transparency is lost) and if a place doesn't take care, the colour can be off. This is one of those times when it pays to watch for sales and to test a place with a few slides before giving them a whole bunch.
It may be worth calling around to see if there is some new service out there that can scan the slides easily. You never know what is out there.
My mom has all of our pics of our family on slides. How do you convert them? Are there people that do this?
good to know
I didn't realize they made such a tool.
I have plenty more to do, so I'll be looking into that.
Thanks for sharing
that helps remove the pictures from the sticky photo albums. Costs about $10. You get it from stores/people that specialize in scrapbook supplies. It really helps.
I have 4 full photo boxes of photos too. I doubt these are made of an acid free cardboard because they only cost $4. Have you checked yours? Tupperware and Rubbermaid sell photo boxes too. I wonder if these are ok. The only truly safe platic is mylar and it's very expensive.
the photo shoebox...now they make one for photos so you can't say you have a shoebox full because that is what it is for....LOL I have several EMPTY shoebox fulls...:D
Just yesterday I started to dismantle some old photo albums.
I hate them, and find they take up too much space...I like the idea of photo boxes and files ...
My point is, it was tres difficult to remove a lot of them from those sticky plastic pages you mentioned...that alone could take a lot of time.
I suggest you get some photo boxes, (they come with index file cards), and while watching TV etc. start taking them out of albums..
I wrecked quite a few of them, unfortunately.
That way you got a part of the job done ahead of time.
I started trying to get pictures together for a family reunion and expanded it to putting together a special album for my brother as a gift.
I can warn you that you need to really set some time out for the scanning (and retouching if you are set up for it). It took me a lot longer than I anticipated (I think I ended up with over 300 pictures and still have piles more to do as I had no idea there were so many or that it would take as long as it did).
The other thing that I finally tweaked on was organizing the files into folders that made some sort of sense rather than just having one folder full of pictures. It made it a lot easier too when I went to print as I could do a folder at a time to spread out the expense. The other thing it helped was when I shared the pictures with various cousins and such as they could find their own family shots fasters .
I gave them out on CDs which is way cheaper than prints and lets them pick what they wanted printed anyway The album I put together for my brother wouldn't have held them all (without a fork lift) so the CD meant he still has copies of all the pictures that didn't make it into the album.
I can also tell you it was one of the most satisfying exercises I've done in a long time. Not only did it get all the pictures into one place but it really pleased my brother and all of the other relatives who got CD's of pictures they hadn't seen before. It was also gratifying to save some pictures that were really in bad condition and find ones I didn't even know existed. Kind of the warm fuzzies all around and i highly recommend it.
I choked when I read your question too quickly. Had to go back and read what I had written. Was afraid I had said I wished a former, no longer with us kind of life on the first hubby. Hmmm, maybe those were guilty feelings leaking out. LOL.
Probably all kinds of Freudian things could be written into this. DH is my second husband. PM - pre me, did he really have a real life? Definitely not as good, or so I'd like to think. LOL.
It is a great idea and every member will love it. My Son in Law took all the photos, Kodak slides etc. going back for years and had them put on a VHS tape. He sectioned it all out with accompaning music dubbed in for that time and events, like birthdays, Christmas etc. Now he wants to add more photos taken in the last few years and put the whole lot on a CD.
We love watching it and especially the kids love it too. Brings tears to me every time I see it . :)
It truly is "memories", which is the first song on the VHS tapes he made us all...
what a great idea jan...and i'm sure your kids will love it....if you don't mind my asking...what do you mean by DH's former life?...don't mind me i'm just a nosey person...you can tell me it's none of my business...