40 years of history going digital

Yup

I am hoping to upload the best ones to my website at a later date, probably early in 2007.

I have just scanned one of my first 4by, the 1976 Suzuki LJ50 soft top. No bullbar, no spotties, bar tread tyres and canvas doors. WOW. Probably can't fit into one now...LOL

My uncle Doug had one of those on his property in the Flinders. He called it the "flivver" and it would go anywhere. Not much power, but then there was not much weight to move!

Pete

Ahhhh Al, and others in the thread,

Yes. As said , its going to take a while. The package comes with wonderful software which can do all sorts of things to the transparencies before they are saved. I am still on the steep learning curve however.

Thank goodness I had the foresight to catalogue all the slides as we went along otherwise it would be a bugger of a job to identify them.

Cheers

'Tis a good life, eh?

When are you coming by for a drop of RED?

willem! you know I dont drink......

Red tea that is......................

sorry willem...cant make it

Yes, that is the plan in the long run.

I do have photos of Water Buffalo in the wilds if the NT and there are no more buffalo. All shot out during the BTEC years.

from film negatives that i have scanned and then repinted on epson photo printer, one cant see the difference in A4 size as compared to same film lab A4 developed photos, unless they use a good magnifier

Don't think so Uncle Des

The software that comes with the package can let you do all sorts of tricks with the pics :-)

Every time summer appears a cool breeze comes over them thar hills and cools things down.

Footy

All my old slides are going into the incinerator and the boxes have already been promised.

One carries too much luggage around. Most of ones life can now be stored on a couple of DVD's...LOL

I am getting up to the 500 mark for two weeks of scanning. Hopefully the speed of scanning will increase with time

Cheers

Just make sure you spend the cash to get GOOD quality DVD or other storage media. Plenty of people have been caught out in the last few years with cheap DVD's that become unreadable after only 2-3 years.

The commercially mass produced DVD's are copied using different technology to the burner found in your PC and last much longer. Home burned CD's and DVD's are turning out to be less stable as a few years pass. Digital is great as there is no loss between copies on good media (it is all ones and zeros) but the media has to be good quality.

Judy had a DVD of photos and her PC could not read it. Only the newest of our 4 computers could read it and even then it stuttered a few times. All my stuff is now backed up to a 300Gb Maxtor Shared Storage networked hard drive ($499 at Officeworks) and I am still investigating the safest long term archival back up media solution for our precious memories.

There is plenty of material on this subject on the web.

Cheers
Muddy

Thanks Steven I will bear that in mind.

Cheers