Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

Timphoto wrote in post #17714904
Just wasted 3 hours fixing my wife's iPhone. It got totally hung up with the IOS 9 "upgrade" and of course she hasn't backed it up since November 2014. Finally had to do a factory reset of the iphone grrrrr.

Guess I was lucky, my iPhone 4 (I know, get with it) upgrade to 9.0 went without a hitch.

I was lucky too. My 5S upgraded without issues.

Ya know, I recently switched to an Android phone but I really miss my Windows phone. It just integrated with my PC so seamlessly.

And to post up some photographic content, this weekend I build my own slide converter from a couple of filter rings, a slide tray, a cardboard tube and some duct tape. It works fantastic. I'll post up some pics tonight when I get home.

It's so simple to use, I don't know why I didn't thing of it before. It just screws on to the filter ring of my 100mm, pop in a slide, point it at the sun, use live view to get that perfect focus and press the shutter button. Slide digitized.

That might be something for me to try. My father has hundreds, if not thousands, of slides that are from the 50's-70's. I've played with a few using one of those store-bought converters. Tedious to say the least, and the images don't look that great. Once I retire, I'll have to go through them all.

LV Moose wrote in post #17715645
That might be something for me to try. My father has hundreds, if not thousands, of slides that are from the 50's-70's. I've played with a few using one of those store-bought converters. Tedious to say the least, and the images don't look that great. Once I retire, I'll have to go through them all.

I've tried scanning them and it works but as you say, it's pretty tedious and the scanner is slow. This is easy and I can go through a cube of slides in about an hour with the bulk of the time spent getting the slide as dust free as I can. After a little cleanup in PS, they look great.

What resolution do you initially save them at (pre-post processing)?

LV Moose wrote in post #17715684
What resolution do you initially save them at (pre-post processing)?

With scanner or camera? With the scanner I use to scan them at 4800dpi. The camera just takes a picture. I usually leave a bit of overlap so the final image is a little smaller than what a 5DII captures.

Camera. You just save the image at original size (RAW L?).

Yes, I take the picture RAW L, do some cropping and a little cloning out of the dust specks and save it as a TIFF. This becomes my negative. Then I go ahead and post process, save as a jpeg and that's what I hand out to family. I also resize for small Facebook or Flickr and post up some the the better ones.

I also have a negative tray and will start those shortly. It's been an interesting activity. I have thousands of images some as old as the 1920s as my grandfather was a photographer as well as I found out. (never got to meet him) But other family members have given me their stuff as well. I am the archive I guess. What I have discovered, especially with the older images, that pictures of stuff (vacation pictures, houses, landscapes, wildlife) have almost no value. No one wants them. It's the pictures of people that have value. I have started culling heavily just skipping anything that does not have someone in it unless it's of particular interest.

A slide 'scanner' is something that I really could use too! We always knew that Dad took a lot of slides, but when we were going through the slides for Dad's 70th birthday party we discovered that Mom, Grandma, and Grandpa also took a lot of slides. We definitely need to get them digitized and start doing some labeling before Dad forgets who all the people are. A lot of people at the party also asked for copies of them. Dad had been the guy that always had a camera in hand.

We found the same deal with the vacation photos. Most of the landscapes and such are not very interesting. Some of them are labelled, saying things like 'the view from the top of the hill at....'.

I imagine I can do a lot of culling. As you say, people are more important subjects, and my dad took lots of site-seeing shots (Europe, mostly).

Dad has tons of slides from his Holy Land tour. I find they are still interesting, but mostly as a comparison to how the place looks now. He was there in the 60's.
He took lots of pictures of the Rockies when he drove out to BC to marry Mom, and then all the pictures as they drove back to Ontario. The mountains don't change that much. The ones that has his Torino in the picture are kinda neat.

Mom took a trip out to the east coast at some point, there are lots of pictures of people and houses, but there's no one left from that side of the family that could identify the folks/places, so if they're not labeled, the meaning is lost.

It's as if there are several tiers of photography. Stuff like vacation photos are fun at the time but have little lasting power. Wildlife and stuff pictures are fun for the photographer but of no value to others I think. They are pretty and all, but my dad had hundreds of these type of images and no one is interested in them now.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #17715801
.. but there's no one left from that side of the family that could identify the folks/places, so if they're not labeled, the meaning is lost.

I have actually sat down with a lot of the old timers and identified the people and labeled them. Otherwise as you say, get two generations out and no one knows who they are. I have actually found pictures of my great grandmother and great grandfather.