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LynnG

LynnG

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I have inherited all my Dad's old slides Dad AND my mother-in-law's but, even though I hate clutter with a vengeance, I don't mind have this obsolete technology around my house. I don't think old CDs of digital photos will ever be quite like this even though they are also now pretty much outdated and obsolete as well! Anyway, I blogged about all the slide-related stuff I have about the house!
 
Oh loved the newsletter, You sure lucky to have such wonderful things like that
 
What a wonderful post! My dad loved photography and was a lover of slides as well. I have many of them and sometimes I just like to get them out and feel them, hold them up to the light. We had slide shows when I was young, too.
 
I currently have my parent's slides from their honeymoon and beyond for about 10 years. I am in the process of sorting them to decide what to scan. Did you scan yours yourself or did you use a service?
 
I have all of my Dad's slides, and some of my Grandma's as well. And the slide projector, slide projector table, and projection screen! I even had to search the internet for replacement bulbs, but I have them!

I'm slowly scanning them into my computer. I have a Cannon CanosScan 9000F that allows me to scan 35mm negatives, slides, 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 negatives and documents. I love it, except for the part of trying to get all of the dust off everything. But I figure it's saving me tons of money, because I have literally hundereds (maybe thousands?) of slides to scan, and that could get very expensive very fast.
 
Oh I read the entire newsletter about the slides and all the great goodies you inherited! I'm actually quite jealous since I love those sorts of things as well.
 
Cath_ said:
One thing my hubby's dad did, was once got a video recorder, recorded the slide show, telling the story around the photos
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That's a brilliant idea! The story in his voice, with the photos to accompany it!

We have some slides from my dad in his late teens early twenties. But everyone else in our family developed photos as pictures. I'm lucky enough to live near BYU and they have machines available for people to use for free for scanning. We have scanned a lot, but are hanging onto the slides. I love the look of them too!

Maybe advantix film will have that same quality some day? I have too many of those canisters.
 
BevG said:
I currently have my parent's slides from their honeymoon and beyond for about 10 years. I am in the process of sorting them to decide what to scan. Did you scan yours yourself or did you use a service?
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I scanned them themselves with our home scanner (I made sure I got one that had that function). Actually, if I am honest I made DH scan the ones his mother in law gave us!!
 
bestcee said:
Maybe advantix film will have that same quality some day? I have too many of those canisters.
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Oh lordy, me too! I have no idea what to do with them but I can't bear to throw them out. And I loooove throwing things out! Like @LynnG I hate clutter but I have these dangerous spots. I doubt I could part with slides either. I love the idea of recording it with voice, @Cath_ ! I've been trying to get my mother to send her photos and slides to a scanning service or at least put them in a binder with a few words about them. Right now they're just tossed in shoe boxes, and if I'm lucky there's a date and maybe some first names on the back. When I go through them myself, I don't know enough, and I never get to visit for long so I worry I never will.
 
I loved reading your newsletter last night. I was totally nodding along as I read. I even have similar white drawers that hold piles of slides that my Dad took. He has thousands more too, plus about a million (not even joking) negatives from all of the pictures he took over the decades. I would love to scan all of those too, but oy! I don't even know where to start. Plus, he took tons of landscapes and nature photos that I'm just not that interested in. I scan through until I see people in the negatives or slides and then I'll scan those. :)
 
oh the memories of the slide show night...it would go well, then one would get stuck and the butter knife would come out...the kids would be off to play whilst Dad tried to conquer the machine...usually mangling a slide or two.
My dad was in the navy. When I was very young he was out to sea for long stretches of time. My mom would set the slides up, and she had a few full length slides of my dad. She would talk to him, yell at him and sometimes cry with 2 young kids home. My dad said she would burn up the bulbs like crazy! lol
good memories, and I too wish I had recorded those moments! what a brilliant way to remember
 
LynnG said:
I scanned them themselves with our home scanner (I made sure I got one that had that function). Actually, if I am honest I made DH scan the ones his mother in law gave us!!
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Hahahaha! That gave me a good laugh.
 
Slide show nights! It makes me smile to think about them... I can hear the noise of changing slides and even smell it (that kind of warm, dusty, metallic smell). My dad always took slides and has trays and trays of them. He has been scanning them and recently gave me a CD of some of the photos. There was a slide projector at the thrift store the other day and I had to stop myself from buying it. I do buy about every old camera I find there though. I just picked up a Fujica Half on Wednesday. It's from the 60's, but would have made the perfect Project Life camera... it splits a regular 35mm into two, letting you shoot two 3x4 photos on one 4x6 print!
 
I have some old slides from our two years in Papua New Guinea when I was a kid ... I really need to drag them out and get them transferred onto a digital format.
 
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