Here is the process I would follow, will follow one of these days when I get
around to processing my slides and those from my father-in-law:
a. Light box. Array 20-30 on the box. Examine quickly with Pentax 5x
loupe. Rejects in a pile to the side, possible keepers to the upper left corner.
b. When the "upper left corner" full of keepers has expanded to take up
most of the working room, remove the first 1/2 to 2/3, continue with the
process.
c. If you are dealing with hundreds of Grand Canyon slides, often
you’ll find a second better shot similar to one still on the box which can now
be put in the reject pile.
d. Once you have finished with a locale or theme, then use the slide
stack loader thingie to quickly project them to verify general quality. Mark
the definite keepers. Don’t worry about the heat as long as you don’t have a
given slide in front of the lamp for a long period. Do this in the fall/winter
when any heat will contribute to your comfort in the apartment.
e. Scan, then do another selection/deletion run in Lightroom.
f. Put the rejects back in storage boxes, then put them in a rental
storage locker. Fifty years from now, some guy will buy the locker contents at
auction, “discover” your work, and all of us who have signed books or prints
from you will benefit financially. At least that is my plan for my rejects!
stan
> On Aug 27, 2015, at 1:27 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I actually think I have one of those buried somewhere - well something
> similar ... but it is more truble than what i use now.
>
> What I have now - is the carousel stack loader... WhatI usually do is zip
> throughthem and as I saw something with potential I'd pull it out as it
> popped back up and mark on edge with a felt tip marker - but the projector
> really gets super hot - even at the lower setting.
>
> What I thought i might be able to do (although a bit dicey to try) is to
> remove the thing that holds the lamp and substitute a cool
> lamp by just inserting it in the space... but the trouble there is the thing
> that advances the slides doesn't work unless the gizmo
> holding the lamp is in its proper place.
>
> There probably isn't a lamp that could go where the one in the old carousel
> goes... The lamp points at a mirror and the mirror
> points at the slides..
>
> The V500's transparancy thingy doesn't cover the whole 9 x 12 area - it only
> holds 4 slides...
>
> If I had an extra carousel projector I could tinker with it
>
> DOn't know when I can get to doing any of this anyway.
>
> Thanks for suggestions kids
>
> ann
>
>
>
> On 8/27/2015 12:14 PM, John wrote:
>> Something like this?
>>
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/40327-REG/Pana_Vue_FPA005_6566_Automatic_Slide_Viewer.html
>>
>>
>> It says it will hold 36 slides & automagically change them with the
>> slider bar.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOenSZpFS-E
>>
>> Don't have that one, but I have one of each of these manual viewers.
>>
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/204562-REG/Pana_Vue_FPA003_Slide_Viewer_3.html
>>
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/40323-REG/Pana_Vue_FPA002_6562_Slide_Viewer_2.html
>>
>>
>> But I've concluded they just double up the work. You have to put them into
>> the viewer to sort them & then you have to put them into the scanner to
>> scan them. I just put slides into the scanner and preview them in
>> Viewscan.
>>
>> If they're worth converting, I scan them. If not, I just put the next
>> one in & preview it ... one pass takes care of sorting AND scanning,
>> rather than having to make separate jobs of it.
>>
>>
>> On 8/26/2015 4:24 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
>>> They used to make slide viewers, small magnifying devices that you could
>>> rip through 20 or 30 slides in just a few minutes, the best way to
>>> describe them was a loop with a light source under a white diffuser, and
>>> a slide feeding mechanism. Now that I think of it they were first
>>> cousins to coin grading viewers, which were pretty much the same thing
>>> except with a reflecting light source. I had a couple of each back in
>>> the day.
>>>
>>> I guess that makes me even more of geek than most.
>>>
>>> The good thing about them was that they used ~3 volt flashlight bulbs so
>>> they ran pretty cool, (one of mine had an AC adapter wall wart, the
>>> other rand exclusively on batteries, (though one of the coin viewers
>>> actually had a 7 volt bulb with the same base as old style Christmas
>>> lights. I haven't seen any of them advertised in years, but if you
>>> could find them anywhere it would be New York.
>>>
>>> On 8/26/2015 1:22 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
>>>> Um no what i want is slide projector that jsut isn't so hot as the old
>>>> ones... more energy efficient...
>>>> Need something that I can zip through .. grab box, insert slides, look
>>>> at a full roll in under 2 minutres..
>>>> It's a matter of being able to takeall the photos from a certain month
>>>> or two period and pull out
>>>> a specific theme, perhaps, or just the best stuff...
>>>>
>>>> I have a good light box, it's jsut clumsy and hurts my eyes because I
>>>> can't see them without a 10x magnifier.
>>>>
>>>> But I did wonder if there was something that read slides -quickly-,
>>>> real time, and put them up on a monitor.
>>>>
>>>> oh well
>>>>
>>>> ann
>>>>
>>>> On 8/26/2015 11:12 AM, Mark C wrote:
>>>>> If you could setup a copy stand of some sort I think you could output
>>>>> from the K-5 rear screen to a monitor via an HDMI cable. I have never
>>>>> tried it - see the video link below though.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdLILkmN94o
>>>>>
>>>>> It would probably be better ot just shoot images of the slides and
>>>>> review the full res files on your monitor. Some sort of copy stand
>>>>> would probably allow you to quickly image a set of slides. It would
>>>>> be easier if you could use a simple slide duplicator but the APS-C
>>>>> sensor would be a problem with that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good luck!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>> There are copy
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/26/2015 10:24 AM, ann sanfedele wrote:
>>>>>> MOre and more difficult to look at slides on a light box.. I've got
>>>>>> and old Kodak Carousel and one of those
>>>>>> feeders that you jsut stack 40 slides in and use it as a substitute
>>>>>> for the carousel... but the old projector gets
>>>>>> mighty hot really fast
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bottom line - what do you guys know about "energy star" savvy
>>>>>> projectors - I'd like to get more into reviewing
>>>>>> my slidesand getting what I consider the better ones scanned. NO
>>>>>> problem here scanning them - but it
>>>>>> would be good to project them for review .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A really cool thing to have would be something that you could feed
>>>>>> the slides into and it would come out on your
>>>>>> Tv screen or a monitor for review. Does such a thing exist?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ann
>>>>>>
>>
>>
>
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