colour negs to CD digital.. tips me to you

Hi Graham H,

Our "36 negatives" were what you used to get along wth 36 prints for about $15. I would immediately open the packet and look at he prints and cast aside (bin) more than half of the out of focus ones and etc. The negatives were boxed away never to be opened (unless you wanted a reprint of a goodie) by enlarge never looked at again and then the hard copy prints became lost or dog eared.

What we got for our $9.95 was a CD with all of the 36 negatives transposed to a CD. I could look at all 36 in positive (real) colours. I worked on the special ones by cropping and colour enhancing etc and sent of the chosen ones with a click from the instore machine to become 10inch by 8 inch enlargements.

I know that I can scan "real" photographs at home and then manipulate the image and then save it on a media storage device into Camera house and have it printed Unfortunately I have not hoarded many years of slides many of my erly year history has been discarded AND so I didn't ask the questions about slides being digitised and printed onto paper.

Just as an aside... we will be going on a trip to Vancouver up through the Rockies and back in May folowed by a cruise up to Alaska and then home. Our "Sony" $600 happy snap camera is now 4 years old and can hold about 60 pictures shot at its best 5megp setting before you have to download to a media storage disc. Just this morning at Camera House a Panasonic camera with 3 inch screen and capable of storing 2000 pictures at 10 megp to a single 8gb disc. The lad in the store said that 200) pics should get you through the holiday without needing a download. The lad trying to impress. Iam impressed "2000 pics is mega times more than my life history of 60 years worth of saved pics."

Benny

"Currently have a project of digitizing hours (if not days) of super 8 video onto hard drive and then editing it into a presentable format. Working with very old projectors is a bit of a hassle. "

G'day David,
What process are you using for your super 8 and what is the completed quality like? I have some I would like to convert.
Rod

Hi Rod

It is not very special. Just set up your old super 8 and project onto the screen and get your digital camera on a tripod and capture. It is the only way I know how to do it.

The quality is only as good as your old projector and film can provide. Of course after it is digital you can enhance light levels, take out grainy effect, change colour settings - all depending on what software you are using. I work on a Mac with mac software.

There is a professional service around perth that does it. They probably do the same process but in a more sterile environment.

David

Hi Graham,

Sorry I had meant to type 2000 not 200). 2000 is what the 8 gb card can hold. and on the whistle stop rail up the Rockies bus down 2000 will surely suffice vancouver to vancouver then Alaska cruise. I don't think I have taken 2000 shots in 60 years never mind in 3 weeks

The price of an 8 gb card was only $68 so a back up card seem like goog insurance.

Now tell me how lucky was this ? The road tour stops for 2 days at the Fairmont Chateau in Whistler. The "private" highlight dinner our the tour is at this hotel and it coincides with the 25th Wwedding anniversary day so I won't even have to cough up for taking SWIMBO out.

Just caught your Member Profile pic and tag. Next Sunday we will be in Dunedin 2 days on the Alpaca Farm overlooking Dunedin before moving onto Lanarch Castle for the only night Australia Day) I could get for accommodation and dinner in their banqueting hall to mill stone SWIMBO's 60th birthday. This will be followed by an 8 day self drive sampler look at the SW of South Island. By the end I should have half mastered the new camera.

This retirement is hard work.

Regards
Benny

Alpaca Farm Wheres that wasnt there when I left in 2002.

Larnachs castle is great as long as its fine and you can see the view.

If you want spectacular views go over the Crown Range road between Wanaka and queenstown.

All the fun has gone now its sealed Worked at Wanaka for 4 years and we used to shoot across on the gravel in a bit over an hour.

I also lived in Milford Sound for 5 years working on the Milford Track

Best place in the world Canada is nearly as good.


Cheers

Hi Graham,

the alpaca farm is Estalo Alpacas Farm Stay, 42 Dalziel Road,
Dunedin. We appear to have the several bedroomed house shown in their promo picture at www.stonebarn.co.nz. Their site also has a video. With SWIMBO having just lost her doting dog it will be an relief for her to stroke something again.

The castle stay has been amusing already. As aid I got the last room, and only for 1 night so choice was not a part of things. The rooms are heavily stylised. We got the gold rush room and the bed is in a cart. The room is shown on the Lanarch Castle web site. SWIMBO has lready been asked, does the cart come with harnesses ? is it BYO whip or can it be hired, and our doctor caused her to blush when he said "wasn't that the room that Tiger Wood used in the NZ open. I have no idea how the person sleeping on the right side of the bed gets in or who the seat is meant to accomodate... maybe a video cameraman

Our route after the castle in Invercargill 1 night at the manor house, 2 nights at TeAnau on a deer farm, 2 nights just outside Queenstown on a working farm, 2 nights in Twizel followed by the last night at Dunedin again, this time at Blackhead Cottage. This is new venue and worth a look . I did all of these booking on the net and feel quite proud of my achievments but the www thing for NZ tourism things is magically developed and interactive with availability enquiries.

I just had a look at the map. After Queenstown we can head for Wanaka and then back track to the Comwell to Twizel road if you think that that is the picturesque route.

Kind Regards
Benny

Give me a mail at graham-h@iinet.net.au We will get done for chit cat on here



Cheers

Yes that price is remarkable as when I asked how much to get my 400 done they said probably over $1000 as a lot were fairly dirty,

Not surprising considering they had been carted around NZ and AU in a back pack and carted up the Milford Track each season on packhorses.

Even more remarkable is the old Eikislide manual projector that is 46 years old and despite similar treatment has been on the same bulb for over 40 years

I bought a Primeview scanner and found that it can take a couple of hours to clean up a really bad slide with Photoshop.

In my ignorance early on I was saving them as Jpegs, working on them and saving again and wondering why they got really crappy.

No, my computer geek daughter said Tiffs or Gifs only Oh damn had done 150 by this time

Start allover again LOL

Hi MH,

Don't leave them to long. Have nearly finished copying all mine and some of the older ones [30 years plus] were just about non restoreable.
It has taken quite a while to copy all the slides.
See if you can get hold of a copy of ADSee Pro 3. Once you work it out I found it a lot easier to use. On of the advantages is that when you open a file all the photos are laid out as a thumbnail.
But that is me.

Tony