Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Scanning slides
I did a lot of traveling in the 1980s and usually shot slides rather than prints -- I thought they were better for the things tourists usually photograph, especially scenery. Formats change, though, and so does the culture -- nobody wants to sit around and watch a slide show as they did when I was a kid. But what has happened to the slides? You or your ancestors probably own thousands of them, and you have not looked at them in years. That is a problem for you, us, and history.
Anyway, I just bought a really good scanner -- the Canon CS8800F Color Image Scanner
For instance, here is a picture of me, TigerHawk, near Guilin, China in the summer of 1986....
7 Comments:
By 
apex, at
Wed Jan 02, 12:03:00 AM:
For the problem of "nobody wants to watch slides anymore" - I am running my pictures as a slideshow on the screen saver, and frankly, I look at them a lot more than I otherwise would. Actually happens I do NOT touch that mouse, so the slide show does not disappear.
Been thinking about putting them as "changing pictures" on the living room flatscreen, unfortunately, my TV stretches them to 16:9 from the original 4:3.
By Miss Ladybug, at
Wed Jan 02, 12:56:00 AM:
Growing up, all my dad ever used was slide film. A few years ago, I purchased a new flatbed scanner (an HP model) that had an adapter for slides and negatives. As I am able, I scan some of those old slides and other old family pictures. There is history buried in this boxes. I even includes some of that history here.
By 
, at
Wed Jan 02, 01:19:00 AM:
you look almost identical to the pictures of your son (posted here) just a little older.
By Escort81, at
Wed Jan 02, 10:00:00 AM:
What, didn't they feed you at law school?
Ah, to be young, thin and traveling for fun.
By , at
Wed Jan 02, 03:34:00 PM:
"Ah, to be young, thin and traveling for fun." - Escort81
Were you thinking of that picture Hawk posted of him & the family in front of the new house last week?
Were you thinking of how it looked like those buttons on that poor coat were really fighting to hold it all back?
Or were you thinking...
By Minter, at
Thu Jan 03, 01:38:00 AM:
Quite agree on the Canoscan option (have lower end model that does the same). In my quest to deal with the now large library of digital photos, have scanned in the best of the older film photos and now do "complete" diaporamas on a flat screen "digital picture frame" as well as use Media Center on our salon TV for more intimate friends/family along with music in background. Otherwise, the dust will just keep on accumulating.
Meanwhile, ref your photo in Guilin, what of the comments re [not so thin] phallus behind you? A similar landscape to Halong Bay north of Hanoi.
By , at
Wed Mar 19, 04:46:00 AM:
To develop image processing techniques to measure the speed,angle with respect to target and rotation speed of the ball. im using matlab and it would be extremely microfiche scanning helped .
