A PHOTO FABLE
Well, Iām new to the Photography/Imaging Forum . Iāve read some of your post here ,and like of the rest of T-Net there seems to be many helpful people here ,..... I should have came here earlier ! Yes , should have asked for some help earlier , but NOOOO..... not me ,... for Iām a special kind of idiot , .....Iāll explain .
Iām going to start my story a little further back then I originally thought , it will let you see where Iām coming from , if thatās at all possible !! Let alone where Iām going with this !!
My wife bought a H.P All-In-One printer ,fax , scanner , copier [2610 xi] about 4 yrās ago. Itās a good unit ,comes with some good soft-ware that you can update free on line, maybe fairly common anymore? I believe she did good by choosing it , she has scanned all her familyās photoās , and burned C.D.ās for all , good job !!! Then about a year ago [X-mas ā07] I bought a Sony Cyber-Shot 1080 H.D. , 7.2 M.P., it has macro, that was a must . Itās a nice little camera ,easy to take on hunts ,events ,etc. as it will even fit into a large pocket . I have taken some nice picās with it , have even received a few nice compliments here on T-net about some picās . But Iāve also taken some bad picās as well ,.. Need to pick up some new āpointersāon indoor shoots , all in good time .
So ,. Now I have my All-In-One printer with itās soft-ware [H.P. image-zone] where I can send my picās from my little camera . I can from my puter flip, slice ,dice and even resize my picās , I can even order prints for 12 cents ea. , and they will be done in 2 hrās , Photography today can be so easy , [key word CAN] . Alright , Iām good up to here , fairly easy learning curve , in-fact I feel good about what Iāve accomplished ,....so far !
O.K. now , I have known about this treasure for years , but havnāt given it much thought , until I started playing with my little camera and picās on the puter , now it hasnāt been seen for nearly 30 years , I even knew where this treasure laid ,...... it was upon a shelf at my parents house !!
Six reels of 35mm slides and some Photo-albums , and some odds and ends to boot . All from my familyās life in Australia from ā72-ā77 and āyesā it really has been close to 30 yrās since they have been last viewed .
Now , as Iāve said my wife has done all her familyās photoās , there wasnāt any slides . I had over 600 of them to scan , I asked around a bit [could have asked here ?] . I had even been told you can do a good job with your printer , with a frame made from pop-sickle sticks !! But , with a bit of research I decided to get a scanner , they [some] have a holder for 35mm film [neg.] and 35mm slides , there is a mirror behind this āholderā , so I donāt really know how well a printer would do at this task ? Anyway I bought a H.P. scanjet G3010 for $80 ,comes with all the soft-ware for film ,good to go . Maybe , Iām not such an idiot , .... .maybe ?
At the speed of life , I put the slides into the puter , I was about 2 months at this task . Now , it only took me about 1 Ā½ hrās per reel [apx. 100 slides ] but with kids , the holidays etc. it took me about 2 months . Now itās been about 2 weeks since my āproblemā started ,... or better said that I realized I had a problem . As I remember , one night I was going to edit some of the photograph scans , they where stored with some of the other scans in āH.P. Document Viewerā I figured no problem , just click , click and send them to H.P. image zone ,.... right ...!! Apparently ,... it just doesnāt work this way...
... So , I tried to send them via my documents [my pic,s , my scans , etc. ] and through my desktop ,... no luck ,of course ! Now , I sent a āfewā New-Folders with my scans ā somewhereā , ... before I started launching some New-Folders with small pay-loads just to see where or what I could hit , .. Iāve done this before, Just trying to figure thing out ,.. Apparently,...it just doesnāt work this way.... either !! Now , with my scan files a bit scattered about , I decided to do it as one of the H.P. programs āsuggestā , by burning a C.D.,then reinstall to H.P image-zone ,... Hay!!, I told yāall Iām an idiot ,... .and a special one at that !!!
The hunt was on ,... for the well scattered scan files . I started on my Desk-Top ,all was clear . Moved on into My-Documents , as I tore through folders and files , I started finding my scans ,... I burned there little butts straight to that C.D. !! I was on a roll ,..... I moved on to Shared-Documents ,and I burn my last scanās butt in my Wifeās Documents,..I really enjoyed doing this !!
Along the way of this āHuntā I found many Empty New-Folders ,...I smited them just for sport !!
So this is where Iām at right now , C.D. is burned and reinstalled to H.P. image-zone ! My Parentās brought over a few more slides [100 +/-]last week , from Hawaii , Fiji and New Zealand . Iāve already scanned some , sent them straight to H.P. Image-zone ,.... this time ! Anyway , feeling good about what Iāve accomplished ,....again ?? Oā Yes , I did call this little story a fable didnāt I ? I do believe a fable calls for a morel or something at the end ? Hmmm ,... lets see if this fits , ...You can still do a good job , even being an idiot , just try not being to special at it .
Blindpig
Perade through Arch De Triumph
Palm Valley ,Northern Territory [N.T.] Australia , a strange tropical oasis in the center of a desert , they believe much of Australia looked like this millions of years ago .
This slide was taken in ā75 , the colors have held well in this time , the biggest condition issue for me was the dirt [filth ,seen best in sky] on the slides, more so on the slides from the reels ?
Hong Kong
Not a big problem for me , these āstore bought slides ā have faded considerably in 30 yrās , claimed to be made from Eastman Kodak Film , All are Family slides where made on Kodachrome , by Kodak , all in good condition , I think . Now , we have some Slides we bought in Alice Springs where we lived , shot by a local Photographer and sold in shops around town , great pic.ās and in great condition , Old school when you put your name on it ,.. It meant something !
One other problem , Apparently the frame orientation on the slides , fount, back ,up , down
Really didnāt mean a hoot in the film lab . ...I worked here at the Ylggiw-Ylggip , .. stocking , bagging groceries even painted a few signs ,. ..didnāt last long ??
Now , I had more problems scanning photoās then slides , first just getting them out of the albums . Then some [most ?] had a bit of a āwarpā to them , they would move around a bit as you laid the lid on the scanner down , I cut a piece of clear plexi-glass to fit the scanner ,holds the photoās in place , sometimes the scanner āseeāsā the plexi-glass and tries to āset-upā on nothing, not a big problem , maybe better to use a piece just a bit bigger then your photoās , and stay with single scans.
Multi-scanās , I believe there not the way to go , after the original scan you need to ācrop/cutā them apart and āsave - asā not a real time saver ,messes up [a bit] logging . Anyway , I figured out that a scan ācutā from a multi-scan , of the same size and even larger then a single scan is of less quality , i.e. , a ācutā scan of say 670x 670 is not as good as a single scan of 660x660 ,. I have examples , Iāll throw them up here if you like .
Scanned photo off a mat finish, ... watch your fingers and toeās with this one mate !!
Blindpig ,me mate , my pet Perentie [Varanus Giganteus] ,...his name was ,.. Spots, loved cats he did .
A younger Blindpig , with what I believe is a leapān lizard [ Pogona Vitticaps] .., Well , maybe it's a Bearded Dragon ?
Scanned off a norm. gloss finish
Not all in Australia is scales and claws , they do have a few fuzzy cute ones , this is Josephine , with my litā bro and big sis, and me , X-mas ā76 ? Anyway , Josephineās āmumā was shot by the Aboriginal Tracker working for the Police-man [one] out in the Hartās Range, his jurisdiction , about 15,000 sq. mile .
Wow!! Starting to sound like one of those hellish butt -numbing slide showās from the 70's !!
Anyway , This is where Iām at now , just need to make the finished C.D. for my family and one for a family of Cattle- men , [ranchers] down there ,....... No problem Mate !! Even an Idiot can do it,....right !!?
Thankās Mate , Blindpig
Well, Iām new to the Photography/Imaging Forum . Iāve read some of your post here ,and like of the rest of T-Net there seems to be many helpful people here ,..... I should have came here earlier ! Yes , should have asked for some help earlier , but NOOOO..... not me ,... for Iām a special kind of idiot , .....Iāll explain .
Iām going to start my story a little further back then I originally thought , it will let you see where Iām coming from , if thatās at all possible !! Let alone where Iām going with this !!
My wife bought a H.P All-In-One printer ,fax , scanner , copier [2610 xi] about 4 yrās ago. Itās a good unit ,comes with some good soft-ware that you can update free on line, maybe fairly common anymore? I believe she did good by choosing it , she has scanned all her familyās photoās , and burned C.D.ās for all , good job !!! Then about a year ago [X-mas ā07] I bought a Sony Cyber-Shot 1080 H.D. , 7.2 M.P., it has macro, that was a must . Itās a nice little camera ,easy to take on hunts ,events ,etc. as it will even fit into a large pocket . I have taken some nice picās with it , have even received a few nice compliments here on T-net about some picās . But Iāve also taken some bad picās as well ,.. Need to pick up some new āpointersāon indoor shoots , all in good time .
So ,. Now I have my All-In-One printer with itās soft-ware [H.P. image-zone] where I can send my picās from my little camera . I can from my puter flip, slice ,dice and even resize my picās , I can even order prints for 12 cents ea. , and they will be done in 2 hrās , Photography today can be so easy , [key word CAN] . Alright , Iām good up to here , fairly easy learning curve , in-fact I feel good about what Iāve accomplished ,....so far !
O.K. now , I have known about this treasure for years , but havnāt given it much thought , until I started playing with my little camera and picās on the puter , now it hasnāt been seen for nearly 30 years , I even knew where this treasure laid ,...... it was upon a shelf at my parents house !!
Six reels of 35mm slides and some Photo-albums , and some odds and ends to boot . All from my familyās life in Australia from ā72-ā77 and āyesā it really has been close to 30 yrās since they have been last viewed .
Now , as Iāve said my wife has done all her familyās photoās , there wasnāt any slides . I had over 600 of them to scan , I asked around a bit [could have asked here ?] . I had even been told you can do a good job with your printer , with a frame made from pop-sickle sticks !! But , with a bit of research I decided to get a scanner , they [some] have a holder for 35mm film [neg.] and 35mm slides , there is a mirror behind this āholderā , so I donāt really know how well a printer would do at this task ? Anyway I bought a H.P. scanjet G3010 for $80 ,comes with all the soft-ware for film ,good to go . Maybe , Iām not such an idiot , .... .maybe ?
At the speed of life , I put the slides into the puter , I was about 2 months at this task . Now , it only took me about 1 Ā½ hrās per reel [apx. 100 slides ] but with kids , the holidays etc. it took me about 2 months . Now itās been about 2 weeks since my āproblemā started ,... or better said that I realized I had a problem . As I remember , one night I was going to edit some of the photograph scans , they where stored with some of the other scans in āH.P. Document Viewerā I figured no problem , just click , click and send them to H.P. image zone ,.... right ...!! Apparently ,... it just doesnāt work this way...
... So , I tried to send them via my documents [my pic,s , my scans , etc. ] and through my desktop ,... no luck ,of course ! Now , I sent a āfewā New-Folders with my scans ā somewhereā , ... before I started launching some New-Folders with small pay-loads just to see where or what I could hit , .. Iāve done this before, Just trying to figure thing out ,.. Apparently,...it just doesnāt work this way.... either !! Now , with my scan files a bit scattered about , I decided to do it as one of the H.P. programs āsuggestā , by burning a C.D.,then reinstall to H.P image-zone ,... Hay!!, I told yāall Iām an idiot ,... .and a special one at that !!! The hunt was on ,... for the well scattered scan files . I started on my Desk-Top ,all was clear . Moved on into My-Documents , as I tore through folders and files , I started finding my scans ,... I burned there little butts straight to that C.D. !! I was on a roll ,..... I moved on to Shared-Documents ,and I burn my last scanās butt in my Wifeās Documents,..I really enjoyed doing this !!
Along the way of this āHuntā I found many Empty New-Folders ,...I smited them just for sport !!
So this is where Iām at right now , C.D. is burned and reinstalled to H.P. image-zone ! My Parentās brought over a few more slides [100 +/-]last week , from Hawaii , Fiji and New Zealand . Iāve already scanned some , sent them straight to H.P. Image-zone ,.... this time ! Anyway , feeling good about what Iāve accomplished ,....again ?? Oā Yes , I did call this little story a fable didnāt I ? I do believe a fable calls for a morel or something at the end ? Hmmm ,... lets see if this fits , ...You can still do a good job , even being an idiot , just try not being to special at it .
Blindpig
Perade through Arch De Triumph
Palm Valley ,Northern Territory [N.T.] Australia , a strange tropical oasis in the center of a desert , they believe much of Australia looked like this millions of years ago .
This slide was taken in ā75 , the colors have held well in this time , the biggest condition issue for me was the dirt [filth ,seen best in sky] on the slides, more so on the slides from the reels ?
Hong Kong
Not a big problem for me , these āstore bought slides ā have faded considerably in 30 yrās , claimed to be made from Eastman Kodak Film , All are Family slides where made on Kodachrome , by Kodak , all in good condition , I think . Now , we have some Slides we bought in Alice Springs where we lived , shot by a local Photographer and sold in shops around town , great pic.ās and in great condition , Old school when you put your name on it ,.. It meant something !
One other problem , Apparently the frame orientation on the slides , fount, back ,up , down
Really didnāt mean a hoot in the film lab . ...I worked here at the Ylggiw-Ylggip , .. stocking , bagging groceries even painted a few signs ,. ..didnāt last long ??
Now , I had more problems scanning photoās then slides , first just getting them out of the albums . Then some [most ?] had a bit of a āwarpā to them , they would move around a bit as you laid the lid on the scanner down , I cut a piece of clear plexi-glass to fit the scanner ,holds the photoās in place , sometimes the scanner āseeāsā the plexi-glass and tries to āset-upā on nothing, not a big problem , maybe better to use a piece just a bit bigger then your photoās , and stay with single scans.
Multi-scanās , I believe there not the way to go , after the original scan you need to ācrop/cutā them apart and āsave - asā not a real time saver ,messes up [a bit] logging . Anyway , I figured out that a scan ācutā from a multi-scan , of the same size and even larger then a single scan is of less quality , i.e. , a ācutā scan of say 670x 670 is not as good as a single scan of 660x660 ,. I have examples , Iāll throw them up here if you like .
Scanned photo off a mat finish, ... watch your fingers and toeās with this one mate !!
Blindpig ,me mate , my pet Perentie [Varanus Giganteus] ,...his name was ,.. Spots, loved cats he did .
A younger Blindpig , with what I believe is a leapān lizard [ Pogona Vitticaps] .., Well , maybe it's a Bearded Dragon ?
Scanned off a norm. gloss finish
Not all in Australia is scales and claws , they do have a few fuzzy cute ones , this is Josephine , with my litā bro and big sis, and me , X-mas ā76 ? Anyway , Josephineās āmumā was shot by the Aboriginal Tracker working for the Police-man [one] out in the Hartās Range, his jurisdiction , about 15,000 sq. mile .
Wow!! Starting to sound like one of those hellish butt -numbing slide showās from the 70's !!
Anyway , This is where Iām at now , just need to make the finished C.D. for my family and one for a family of Cattle- men , [ranchers] down there ,....... No problem Mate !! Even an Idiot can do it,....right !!?
Thankās Mate , Blindpig
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