[HN Gopher] Collecting Vernacular Photography
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Collecting Vernacular Photography
 
Author : mikewarot
Score  : 22 points
Date   : 2022-09-28 14:28 UTC (8 hours ago)
 
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| mikewarot wrote:
| I have a large collection of my own and others photos, and this
| seems like a good direction to take with them as well. I wonder
| how many of us here on HN have huge collections of our own photos
| and wonder what to do with them.
 
  | m463 wrote:
  | I have boxes of family photos, negatives, slides and films.
  | 
  | I wonder how to convert the reels and reels of super 8mm stuff
  | - which seems to include sound.
 
    | genewitch wrote:
    | telecine transfer, i think it's called. you need an 8mm
    | projector with a lens that will let it project on to a "full
    | frame" semi-opaque screen about 12-24" away, and then you use
    | a digital camera to record the other side of the screen.
    | Audio can be passed straight through to a recorder or PC.
    | 
    | I have an epson photograph scanner, i bought it in lieu of a
    | flatbed because i had around 12,000 photographs to scan, and
    | scanning the prints seemed to be easier than the negatives.
    | Negative scanners (not flatbed) are expensive and had poor
    | reviews around the internet when i looked. I originally
    | experimented with scanning both the photos and the negatives
    | with a flatbed, but the amount of work to get individual
    | images was crazy. The little epson scanner is so easy to use
    | that my wife took over and scanned and "named/dated" all the
    | resultant digital images.
    | 
    | I've mentioned this a few times, but no one has offered to
    | let us scan their old photos. Maybe i should put a flyer up
    | somewhere.
 
| macintux wrote:
| A recent, related discussion on the Library of Congress's efforts
| to identify people and objects in their photo collections.
| 
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008376
 
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