[HN Gopher] Collecting Vernacular Photography ___________________________________________________________________ Collecting Vernacular Photography Author : mikewarot Score : 22 points Date : 2022-09-28 14:28 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thomashawk.com) (TXT) w3m dump (thomashawk.com) | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-28 23:00 UTC)