[HN Gopher] Collecting Vernacular Photography
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       Collecting Vernacular Photography
        
       Author : mikewarot
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-09-28 14:28 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
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         | 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.
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008376
        
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