And maybe have the intern serve some wine and cheese as you select your
images !
;>)
I recently went thru over 25K slides from the late 60's to 2004. I had
already edited them pretty closely so I thought these were all keepers!,
It took me several days with the Pentax 5.5X lupe and my lightbox.
I couldn't believe how many of the images that I thought were keepers were
discarded! I couldn't recall alot of the people shown and alot of places
where I said to myself why the hell did I ever take and keep this image.
I culled the 25K down to around 1K in the hopes that some day I'll get
around to scanning them. I've scanned a few but the majority are just
sitting there waiting til I get a round tu it.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "ann sanfedele" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: (another) film/slides question
What I'd really like is to sit with my notes while an "intern" takes out
the numbered boxes that correspond to my notes and my journal,
sets up the projector and a screen, makes sure ll the slides are
oriented correctly and puts them in the stack loader andhands me the
remote control - lowers the lights... makes a pile of slides that I have
selected and put them to one side, put the ones I liked best back in the
stack loader. lists the frames that are best and put everything back in
the box except the absolute totaly blurred out or blank slides.
This prevents what always happens when I do the work myself... tripping
over cords, dropping slides, dropping whole boxes of slides,
put thumb on slide, put the slides in the stacker upside down, drop my
notes... etc... burn my finger touching the projector.
I had planned that in my dotage I would have nothing to do but this
process - that turns out not to be the case.
THey already are in drawers packed neatly and labeled - many in steel
filing cabinets.
I think its time for my nap now
ann
On 8/27/2015 2:53 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote:
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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