Part One of Photgraphic Project completed
Submitted: Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:01
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Willem
This might be a tad boring after post 42987.
I have just completed scanning 5250 transparencies to digital format and it took almost 6 months to the day. This spans around 40 years of photography. At one stage in our lives we had over 10,000 trannies, but have culled them severely over the years.
It was like travelling the world again, recalling all the
places we have visited at one time or another.
The scanner scans 4 transparencies at a time and made its own set of rules as it went along. After being on all day it would state "Scanner is warming up...please wait". Thank goodness this part is over. Now I have to start on specialist subjects. I have four plastic boxes full of old trannies which are destined for the incinerator when we are allowed to burn again.
We have to change with the times. Where to next????? Hope the DVD disks last longer than 10 years.......
Cheers
Reply By: Footloose - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:16
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:16
"At one stage in our lives we had over 10,000 trannies, but have culled them severely over the years."
Willem, these days *trannies* aren't what they used to be. You could find yourself in hot water if you started culling any :)))))
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:22
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:22
Footy
Trust you to think up the absurd.
In photographic term trannies are still what they are.
Maybe your trannies are denizens of the late nite kind?????? Or maybe a relative or something closer....lol
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:31
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:31
Willem, sadly its not absurd. I know a person who not only is one, but gets very upset and quotes gender discrimination laws etc if I let him/she/it.
The said person was a married man with 3 kids and very technical until one day....anyway I treat people for how they treat me, not by their funny looks....although he/she/it/ has given up dressing up when I'm around.
A relative or something closer ?
Well I'll tell you what. Send me a good looking, willing, sweet
young thing and they can report back LOL
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:42
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:42
You are a worry, Footy
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:44
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:44
Willem, that may be so, but I'm a 100% Male worry LOL
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Follow Up By: Nick R - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:32
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:32
Willem, what are trannies? do you mean transistor radios???
Don't you answer footy
NickR
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:45
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:45
Hey
young Nick. You're up late and should be in bed.
Anyway, go ask your parents or read the thread
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Reply By: mfewster - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:26
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:26
Willem. If that is Part 1 of the project, what do you intend for them for part 2? Collections like that are often of considerable historical interest. A lot of my father's older films of outback Oz have finished up with museums. Let some museums know you have them.
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:41
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 20:41
mfewster
My next project is to create a historical photo record of my and and my wifes lives for the family to treasure...lol
On top of that I will be offering various State Libraries around Australia, photographs from the late 60's onwards pertinent to their state. A couple of years ago I donated my complete Genealogy Database to the Genealogical Institute of South Africa. I am very aware of the importance of any history however insignificant it may seem.
The slides were all coming to the end of their useful lives and so I decided to digitalise them. Some will need to have photo enhancing done to them for future use. Others are not so important.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Peter W - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:01
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:01
Hi Willem,
Good on you for doing such a project.
Not sure if it will be of any help but I was recently introduced to a FREE product that will allow for clean up and enhancing of old pics.
Google up Photofiltre (American spelling) and there is a free download there that takes about 3 minutes to get. Works a treat and a lot cheaper than Photoshop and the like.
Cheers.
PeterW
"Life is not a Rehearsal"
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:15
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:15
Thanks Peter, will do
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Reply By: kingswoodwagon - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:16
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:16
Hey Willem,
just interested in what you scanned them with - did you use a normal A4 scanner with a backlight? or a specialized scanner.
my folks have been hassling me to scan their 'tiny photos' for about 5 years. they've never mentioned trannies though, i dont know what they are, i thought they were the kings cross folk.
thanx
Lazy gav
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:51
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:51
Gav
I bought an Epson 4490 Photo Slide scanner. Yes, it is a specialized scanner which scans 4 slide transparencies(trannies) at a time. It can also do film strips but only does positive film and not negative.
Cheers
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Reply By: Im.away - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:42
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:42
Well done Willem. I know how time consuming things like this can be. I am currently converting all of our vinyl recordings to digital format (.wav and .mp3) using some software that enhances the recordings and gets rid of the scratches and things.
This can only be done at "normal" playback speed and it feels like it is going to take forever. Still, we'll have over 15,000 songs to listen to as we travel this big, brown land.
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:06
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:06
Better you than me...lol
I have about 80 LP's sitting under the table in the lounge...relics from a family estate with music dating back to the 50's. Maybe one day if I ever get bored.......
Cheers
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Follow Up By: John R (SA) - Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:26
Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:26
What software are you using Im.away?
I'm curious to find software (which doesn't cost a few hundred $US) capable of recording from a computer input, which recognises silence and changes track and/or pauses recording.
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Reply By: V8Diesel - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:42
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:42
Willem, it'd be a crying shame to destroy your originals. Trannie stock is considered an archival material and they will stand the
test of time.
They are also far preferable for any print / publishing use and as they are a visual history of half a decade I'd say they're
well worth keeping.
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:59
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 21:59
V8
Unfortunately the majority of my photos have film damage such as ingrained dust particles and film discolouration due to heat stress(living in tropics).
Frankly with digital photo enhancing available these days I cannot see the point of keeping antiquated celluloid material. And no, it has not withstood the
test of time.
The visual hisory is still there, now saved to CD and DVD and copied with ease.
Half a decade?...more like half a century !...lol
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Follow Up By: V8Diesel - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:09
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:09
Mmmmm.....a brain fart - century was what I meant. Fair enough, if they're buggered, they're buggered.
Love to see some of them one day Willem, pics like that are simply priceless.
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:20
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:20
I would like to pick 100 of the best pics out of the whole lot and add them to a page on my website. But that is a way off still. Have to now concentrtate on writing another 49 short stroies for the website...lol Never a dull moment here.
Maybe if you get the urge to visit the east coast one day you could drop in. I am about half way..:-)))
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Reply By: Topcat (WA) - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:12
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:12
Hi Willem, have been doing something similar myself although I've only got to the 3000 mark dealing with my family history going back some 100 old years to my grandparents. So far it has taken me over 20 years to correlate them with descriptive comments. All so far are burnt to discs & preserved for later years. I have still a couple of thousand yet to do. Hope I live that long to finish the project L.O.L. Cheers
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:27
Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 22:27
LOL One worries about living long enough to finish projects.
After many starts and failures I finally hit on an idea to write 100 stories about travels and life. I had made a start in the 1980's and had some published but got stuck into it in earnest in 2002 when our website came into being. Now I still have 46 left to write. Hope I make it too....:-D
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Jeff H (QLD) - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:29
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:29
Bugger! The pigeon just delivered the mail (5hrs late).
Would have loved the chance to drop in my expertise ; alas, the moment has passed.(As have our SLIDES, NEGATIVES and prints . [no trannies here, Ladies].
Termites and fungi are quite catholic in taste. All gone, eh.
(You just watch ; a highly magnetic Microwave Burst will take care of our current crop of images. hahahaha. btw. How's Gramps? bit bloomin quiet, eh.) Jeff.
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Reply By: mfewster - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:25
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:25
Willem and others interested in archiving, you probably know this, in which case apologies for teaching Grandmothers to suck eggs. One of the problems with digital archiving images is the choice of format for storing. The formats change so much over a few years that even if the data survives, it can be impossible to use. Adobe has developed DNG format for this reason as it is independent of the various camera based formats.
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Follow Up By: John R (SA) - Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:32
Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:32
Good point. Recently something on ABC about the changing formats of storage too. No longer can you access something off an original tape, various floppy disks etc. Some mediums can still be accessed, some are redundant because the hardware no longer exists to handle them.
Great work scanning all your trannies Willem. Just be sure to leave them in the care of someone who will transfer them from CD/DVD to whatever the next medium is before they stop putting CD/DVD players in computers!
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