I have cousins and their/my kids who have an interest in this stuff, and
I guess I do to some extent, at least to look at them again and maybe
share some memories of the people and places and things. But yeah it is
a big job, I know that. I figure once I get the setup done I can scan a
bunch of pics at once then go through and annotate them. Maybe no one
will care, I don't know, but putting them in electronic format will make
them available to all if they have an interest.
The interface to this scanner is a total PITA though, it says it will
duplex scan, and I have gone through the settings, but it is only
getting one side of the pic, some have notes on the back. aaarrrrrgggghhh
-_FT
On 5/26/20 12:44 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Allan,
I totally understand your position. However, with the slides, which my Mom had
been storing for literally decades in her outdoor shed, my siblings wanted to
be able to have copies for their viewing pleasure and to pass to their
children. Me? I don’t really care. Much the same as when we were kids and Dad
would get the Carousel projector out for “slide night” and we would all run
like rats from a sinking ship.
The photos were mostly of our kids growing up and the wife’s family. I want my
kid’s pictures, the in laws, meh. I don’t know most of the people in them so
they don’t hold any significance for me, but the wife wanted them. It was
helpful having them when her father passed so we could make a slide show of him
and a lot of his family for the memorial service.
I think my biggest peeve with this stuff is that no one is alive today that can
identify a lot of the people in the images, making them even less valuable from
a sentimental standpoint.
For what it’s worth, I vacuum sealed the slides in large “bricks” when I was
done and put them in deep storage. I’ve got the electronic files and DVDs
they’re burned to if I ever want to look at any of them. It was a massive
undertaking, but it’s done and won’t have to be repeated. At this point I’ll
leave it to my heirs to throw them away.
-D
On May 26, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
I'll give you another perspective.
Take all the boxes of photos, and throw them away.
Ask yourself honestly: how often do you look at this old stuff. Is it
*really* meaningful to you or are you just saving it out of some vague
guilty feeling that you should.
When my mom died, I moved dozens of boxes of photos from her house to
mine. Felt that it would be a shame to throw them away. The fact that
SHE had never gotten around to doing anything with them should have been
a clue.
A few years later, they were all still untouched in my basement. I
finally admitted to myself that I did not have enough interest in these
to be worth keeping them, and threw them all away. It was a relief that
I no longer had to see all those boxes and feel guilty about having done
nothing with them.
Allan
Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes:
Let me give you some advice:
I had this situation in two forms, over 8,000 35mm slides, and close to 3,000
photographs, about 6-8 years ago.
I bought a Nikon 35mm slide scanner and devoted nearly two whole weeks of time,
non-stop, probably 6-8 hours a day, to d the slides. It was a flipping
nightmare, made better (compared to scanning photos) by the fact that
everything was a consistent size and the software I used to import handled the
naming/exposure. It was still a nightmare.
When it was time to do the photos I sent them off to a lab that did it and paid
a lump sump for all of them to be scanned, put on a CD and made available for
download. It was worth every penny. I think it cost under $500, more like $350
if I recall correctly.
That being said, I was once again faced with a huge pile of photographs for
scanning from the mother in law about a year ago. I bought a purpose-built
scanner with very good software from Epson. Epson FastFoto FF-640. It wasn’t
cheap ($400) but it does a heck of a job and continues to provide excellent and
fast scanning capabilities for photos and documents.
Your time has value.
-D
On May 26, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I have boxes and boxes of old family photos. I bought a Brother ADS 2700W
scanner I am going to use to scan these photos. I need some sort of management
app where I can put in a descriptor, names/places, years, etc. to set up some
sort of searchable database of all these pics, then share the database/photos
somehow/where for the extended family to access.
The device has some sort of associated app called PaperPort I downloaded and
will be trying out, it looks kinda clunky on a quick look but maybe it will
suffice to get them into a scanned file. It doesn't seem to allow annotation
of images (only PDFs) with other descriptors.
Google, Amazon, Picasa, Photobucket and others are online storage apps that I
know a little about, Amazon just seems to be a place to store photos and vids,
but no details on how to set it up to do what I want to do. Google seems about
the same.
Anyone ever done something like this?
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--FT
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