Divide and conquer! I retired a couple of years ago with the same intentions. After a few half-hearted first attempts then putting everything in a cupboard for 18 months, I now have a process I’m fairly happy with.
Once you’re happy with your set-up you’ll probably be able to raw scan each carousel in a couple of hours at most. Then when you’ve done the donkey work you can concentrate on editing the best images. > On 1 Dec 2022, at 01:28, Rick Womer wrote: > > Just looking around the room, I have 22 loose-leaf notebooks filled with > slide pages, and 9 140-slide carousels. > > I always told myself I’d do something about them when I retired… but in a > year and a half nothing has happened yet. > > Rick > > > >>> 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. >> >> If I was more ambitious, I'd buy a scanner and hire a high school or college >> student to scan my negatives, and other people's as well. >> >> -- >> -- %(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.
