Re: glass slides

[sam wang <stwang@clemson.edu>]

Chris,

Are you kidding?! Scanning my old negatives will be an ongoing project  
for a long long time!

But I am in the middle of scanning old family albums. Which brings it  
back to sort of alt topic, or would printing Blurb books count? In  
case you aren't familiar with Blurb.com yet, they do on-demand  
printing of photo books very inexpensively. You download their  
software and use their layout options to insert your images and stuff.  
Upload and the beautifully printed book is at your door a few days  
later. Then if you wish, you can let other people order a copy from  
Blurb directly, much like Lulu.com, among others, but Blurb does a  
great job with photos and offers 11x13" in addition to smaller sizes.  
Anyhow, it took me a few tries before understanding how to do it on a  
Mac but the latest copy came back exactly the way I saw it on the  
monitor. A great way to make hard copies out of loose images without  
getting a publisher and waiting forever.

Anyway, on negative scanning, I am getting ready to see if I can  
correct (bleach away) the silvered areas on some of them. Hope it's  
better than my efforts in cleaning Daguerrotype. Don't ask.

Sam

On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> > Apply for a small grant to pay for a student to do that. Include cost
> > for storage hard drives or DVDs. Maybe publication costs. Your school
> > or state arts council, historical society, etc ought to give grants
> > for things like that.
> > Sam
> Now Sam, I LIKE this idea....
>
> Yeah, the thickness of the slides worries me as far as scanning on a  
> regular
> flatbed.
>
> Seems you and I are dealing with the same issue at the same time;  
> have you
> weeded through all your images?
> Chris