New toy arrived this morning: A Plustek OpticFilm 8200i film/slide scanner. Just firing it up and playing with it now. I've got thousands of slides to go through, dating from the '50's to the early '80s.
480sparky wrote:
New toy arrived this morning: A Plustek OpticFilm 8200i film/slide scanner. Just firing it up and playing with it now. I've got thousands of slides to go through, dating from the '50's to the early '80s.
Details later..........
Uh, my wife got the exact same scanner (which I still have in a box buried deep) but she just announced that she's culled the 75 years of family slides down to one bankers box from six. I guess I should be grateful. As for what have you done to yourself - the world screwed comes to mind
The vast majority of the thousands of slides I have are of 'snapshot' grade. So they'll get scanned at the lowest res... no reason to spend months scanning in family reunion shots I'm just gonna send in an Email and a JPEG.
But I do have 300-400 'keepers' that will be scanned at full-res and saved as TIFs.
It's not the scanning that kills you, its the PP - cleaning up scratches, colours etc. I've been doing this on and off for a couple of years with old photos and its a real time-eater.
