Old Enough To Remember?

Sadlsor said:
On that note, I had "intended" to scan all those slides, but procrastinated due to the enormity of the task.
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Yep, same with all my 35mm negatives... besides the fact that any halfway decent scanner will cost a noticeable amount of money...
 
I have scanned all of the pictures that I and my family had. Prints, negs, and slides. Thousands of them. Photos going back a hundred years or more. Thank goodness I had them to scan. I used an Epson V500 scanner. Better to take the time to preserve what you have even though it may not be the best method. Better to have something than nothing.

These days, I save and catalog my negs and make multiple backups of all the digital pictures. I don't put anything in the cloud or leave it on my phone or hard drive to get lost.

I like this photo of my dad and his mom, dad, and brothers. May have been taken in Columbia in 1939 or 1940. My dad is the little kid in front smiling. I sure miss my dad. Sniff.

William H. England, Jr. and wife, Cereda Ferney England, with sons, Eldon, Ronald, and Melvin.jpg
 
Sadlsor said:
I lost literally hundreds of slides at a storage unit, years ago.
It's still painful to think about, knowing some of the content I took over decades of living. And riding.

Stubble and hay, I guess.
(Heavy sigh.)
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There's a downside to keeping them forever.
I 'inherited' Mom's photo albums. Family post WWII I remember. Before that, I don't know who they are as she marked few of the photos on the back. In one album I found a number of tin photos. Obviously they are of her mother's family moving west by wagon after the civil war as the women's resemblance to my grandmother is remarkable but again....no identification.
Most of her photos of our family were lost. Found 'em under the only leak in the storage shed roof.
 
Oldbikefixr said:
There's a downside to keeping them forever.
I 'inherited' Mom's photo albums. Family post WWII I remember. Before that, I don't know who they are as she marked few of the photos on the back. In one album I found a number of tin photos. Obviously they are of her mother's family moving west by wagon after the civil war as the women's resemblance to my grandmother is remarkable but again....no identification.
Most of her photos of our family were lost. Found 'em under the only leak in the storage shed roof.
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Tin photos? Wow. I'd sure like those. The photos with no ID are frustrating especially when the only people who could identify them are dead. Sorry to hear many of yours were water-damaged. My wife lost many of her photos in a move when they were poorly packed and fell out onto the road.
 
Sadlsor said:
I can back up my cards and hard drives, and use cloud storage and all... much easier than I could duplicate the transparencies. And I do.

Also, "back in the day", copying prints or slides usually meant a loss in resolution.

On that note, I had "intended" to scan all those slides, but procrastinated due to the enormity of the task.
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I understand. I'm the poster child for procrastination. Hope you can get them scanned some day. What's unfortunate is that there may not be a whole lot of people who care about them more than you do.
 
My wife, on the other hand, has a narrow tall bookcase filled with nothing but her photo albums, the full-size ones.

She was a fiend with a Kodak Instamatic, and later 35mm point-and-shoot. All her photos, and I do mean ALL, are just snapshots.

My lost legacy included travel landscapes and riding action shots and macros and creatives.

Guess y'all will just have to take my word for it.
 
Sadlsor said:
All her photos, and I do mean ALL, are just snapshots.
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Reminds me at those family slide shows; attending mandatory...
a big happening, everyone had to clear the table and help rearrange the entire furniture...
then gramps came with the telescopic stand, unrolled the canvas, erected the stand and took like forever to adjust that projector...
and then he always showed e v e r y s i n g l e e x p o s u r e of those rolls... pffffft...
 
ST1100Y said:
Reminds me at those family slide shows; attending mandatory...
a big happening, everyone had to clear the table and help rearrange the entire furniture...
then gramps came with the telescopic stand, unrolled the canvas, erected the stand and took like forever to adjust that projector...
and then he always showed e v e r y s i n g l e e x p o s u r e of those rolls... pffffft...
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If they were vacation slides, 50% of the slides always seemed to be sunset pictures. I wanted to hang myself being put through that.
 
ST1100TX said:
If they were vacation slides, 50% of the slides always seemed to be sunset pictures.
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Worse...
- here's granny packing the suitcases
- here the suitcases fully packed in the hallway
- here is gramps hauling the suitcases out
- here the suitcases standing aside the car
- here gramps is loading them into the trunk
- here is the full trunk
- here is the loaded car ready to drive
- ....
<kill me now!>
 
ST1100Y said:
Worse...
- here's granny packing the suitcases
- here the suitcases fully packed in the hallway
- here is gramps hauling the suitcases out
- here the suitcases standing aside the car
- here gramps is loading them into the trunk
- here is the full trunk
- here is the loaded car ready to drive
- ....
<kill me now!>
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need to wait till they make an AI robot which can do that job being as they are dumb enough
 
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