From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> (Not by profession - he was a "radio-telegraphist" (literally translated >> from Swedish - if you know what his profession would be called in >> English, >> please report (or in German, French, Spanish and Italian too). > > Radio-telegraphist is OK but radio-telegrapher would be better.
Thanks, Mike. > I hope you manage to do something with this archive. For me, when faced > with huge tasks like this, the only way is to make sure that I do > _something_ every day until it is finished, no matter how small that > something is. Yes, I will later try to follow that routine. However, there simply are some initial steps which needs to be done and the only way I can see me getting it done is to fully throw myself into it and get it over with fast, or there is a chance that the task might seem too big to start off on. In this case I just thought better not to think it over too much, just grab the whole mess and quickly make it manageable for further work, which can be done the way you suggest. > Maybe a local museum would be interested in getting some of the donkey > work (basic scanning) done in return for first consideration of the > results? I've been thinking about it, but for now, until i get a basic order to it, I wouldn't like to turn it over to anybody else. Besides, I also realized that I am probably the only person who is really able to do it reasonably right at this stage - I have enough experience and knowledge of dealing with films and images and in my family there is no one else with the same knowledge of family history or of how to go about getting information needed, let alone the interest to really do the work. I took the decision to start by just doing rough scans of the earliest and most important pictures as a means to more easily sort them and get a better overview. Later I will make a selection and try to properly clean them and make some "archive scans" of them. I have so far limited my work to these early pictures and excluded the great amount of later photos. From the 60s onwards the slides will have processing dates which will make it easier. I will also soon sort out the earliest negatives and try to sort these out. However, they are at least in various pockets and envelopes, although in complete dissarray, why I can deal with them little by little. The early slides however needed immediate attention because of their poor and in many cases unprotected state. I will have to make some decisions though as to how to deal with the total body of photographs. Probably will set out to do one, and just one only, look through all the slides and negatives and make a selection (and maby some notes) on the spot, immediately scan the selected ones etc., till I think I've gone through it all, and then see where it leaves me. The amount of material is so huge that you run the risk of getting lost or overwhelmed by it ending up nowhere. Furthermore, all this time and work that I already spent on my uncle's pictures, is something that I'd really need to put into my own stuff, which already since long has awaited similar work. > In any case, I would dearly like to see some of them myself. I will soon get back to you all with a selection or two. Maybe I ought to point out that this is not a discovery of an unknown treasure of great photography. However there is a lot of good photography with local documentary value to it, quite a lot of very good landscape and scenery photography, a lot of nice family pictures, and surprisingly (to me) many good portraits of family, friends and aquaintences. Thanks, Lasse -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
