During the last school year, I acquired a Canon scanner. At Katy's urging, I recently brought it home and she has been scanning our slide collection. I also, somehow, ended up with many of my father's slides. We watched them as youngsters and thought they were super. In the age of digital photography, however, they seem quite rough. Taking pictures was a bit of a crapshoot for amateurs. One had to estimate distance for focus and determine how wide to open the aperture as well as guess how long to keep the shutter open. As a result, the images are a bit wonky. Thanks to the clever features of iPhoto, most of the problems, except for focus, can be ameliorated. Following are a couple of before-and-after examples.
Katy Kathryn hard at work scanning some
Hastings' reunion slides for Anna
Father's original slide image of the house on the hill in
Provo where we lived when I was born
The same image after a bit of work with iPhoto
A family trip to Bryce Canyon
Hank, Tony, me, Mother, and Stephen
Same image after a bit of readjustment
and cleanup
It will be a long and tedious job to scan approximately 7,000 slides, four at a time. But it will be nice to have them in digital form to share with the kids and their families. That's all for now.
OXO
D.
Katy Kathryn hard at work scanning some
Father's original slide image of the house on the hill in
The same image after a bit of work with iPhoto
A family trip to Bryce Canyon
Same image after a bit of readjustment
6 comments:
It's the manual labor involved that I always find daunting whenever I start (and invariably quit) a task like this. I have a lot of printed photos that I would like to scan, and my parents have thousands, and they also have a lot from their own respective parents.
If only I could lay my hands on an inexpensive, quality, high-speed, high capacity scanner. Unfortunately, I don't think something like that exists (yet).
Ian:
Our inexpensive garden-variety Canon printer/copier/scanner from Costco does a super job with photo prints (no slides, unfortunately). The resultant digital images can also be manipulated in iPhoto if they are overexposed, dirty, faded, or slightly damaged. If, by high-speed, you mean more than one at a time, no luck.
D.
280 give or take a few done, thousands more to go. With any luck it will be finished by the end of the year.
Wow what a project! Amazing what a little iphoto does!
I think it is great. I have loved what iphoto can do. I need to scan all my photos and slides. It is daunting.
I also think that picture of Dad and his brothers and mom at Bryce is fab. Did you notice Uncles 501's aren't all the way buttoned. And Hank is a cool dude.
Sounds like a project we need to undertake, too. Good idea.
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