Re: '49-'50 Eight - Kodachrome period photo
Posted by Robin Adair On 2016/4/10 7:24:05
Owen, if you have hundreds or a thousand or so slides, you are obligated to scan those... 
. The historical information is priceless, the artistic value is at a premium and the topic is so relevant.
I just finished scanning about 4500 of my fathers slides and negatives and about 5000 of my own. It took me over a year but it is so worth it in the end. I have and you have images of cars that are captured in time from an early era.
As with my father's photos, and probably what will happen to yours, is I fished them out of the trash bin after his house flooded. Luckily, I was able to save about 98% of them.
I began my scanning project with my photos but when I ran into my father's photos, I couldn't put his down. Most of mine were film, most of his were slides and they dated back to the mid 1940's.
One thing became very apparent to me and that was the quality of the slides was head and shoulders above anything I have seen, film, digital, You name it, slides are the bomb. I bought a Canon scanner for under $200 and used Adobe lightroom to clean them up....I had mold residue to contend with. I'm scanning the slides at 9600 dpi and the film at 4800. It takes forever, but the detail the scanner captures if well worth it.
I would highly encourage you to continue...of yeah, his black and white photos are probably my second favorite.
. The historical information is priceless, the artistic value is at a premium and the topic is so relevant. I just finished scanning about 4500 of my fathers slides and negatives and about 5000 of my own. It took me over a year but it is so worth it in the end. I have and you have images of cars that are captured in time from an early era.
As with my father's photos, and probably what will happen to yours, is I fished them out of the trash bin after his house flooded. Luckily, I was able to save about 98% of them.
I began my scanning project with my photos but when I ran into my father's photos, I couldn't put his down. Most of mine were film, most of his were slides and they dated back to the mid 1940's.
One thing became very apparent to me and that was the quality of the slides was head and shoulders above anything I have seen, film, digital, You name it, slides are the bomb. I bought a Canon scanner for under $200 and used Adobe lightroom to clean them up....I had mold residue to contend with. I'm scanning the slides at 9600 dpi and the film at 4800. It takes forever, but the detail the scanner captures if well worth it.
I would highly encourage you to continue...of yeah, his black and white photos are probably my second favorite.
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