On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 08:36:19PM -0500, Stan Halpin wrote: > I wish my brother John had done more sorting and purging. But his life got > complicated by Parkinson???s etc in 2015 and he was unwilling/unable to do > much with his photo archives or other stuff after that. Physical and > cognitive decline. > With his images, my dilemma is that my sister-in-law will have a different > filter than I do. I see 30-40 interior shots of some unfurnished vacant > apartments. I would delete the whole batch. No esthetic value, no context. > But she might say ???OMG those were the two whirlwind days we spent apartment > hunting when I moved to Buda! Gotta keep those!??? So I am trying to > sort/organize by subject and time and location, then I???ll hand it back to > her to figure out what to keep. > John got his first 35mm camera in 1957. He scanned many of the images from > the 367 rolls of slide film that her shot over the years. One of the upsides > of this project for me is rediscovering scenes from my teen years, shots of > my parents back then, etc. > Stan
I haven't even got round to thinking about scanning the bulk of my 35mm film & slides. I do have some scans done (from my PZ-1p or MZ-S) when I had an HP PhotoSmart scanner. Most of those were done when I was shooting part-time for Motorsport.com; I would typically shoot anywhere from 4 to 12 rolls during an event, get them developed and printed, and select a small number of frames to scan in and submit. I did this for a few years, doing as many as 12 events in a year (although usually only half that), so I've got quite a few rolls of film (or slides) to look through. Besides that, though, I've got a box containing a lot of other stuff - some from my student days (before I got my first Pentax) shot with a very basic 35mm camera, some with my film Pentaxes (SP-II, MX, ME, ME Super, Super Program, PZ-1p, MZ-S). I haven't really looked at any of that stuff for 20 years or more. I've also got some family photo albums I've inherited. No negatives - just prints. Of course before I can do any scanning I'm going to need to get a scanner. While the high-end Epson 800 looks nice, it costs a lot more than the 600. It also gets mixed reviews. I haven't started looking around seriously yet, though - I'll get the digital/digitised stuff sorted out first before opening that can of worms. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
