|
| 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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