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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 h

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 4y ago
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 4y ago
  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.
- mod 4y ago
  I found a service, on amazon of all places, to do a film-to-digital conversion. I thought it was worth the money, and they sent back the original media and all that. In better shape than I sent it, actually--I was charged 3 bucks for a repair to a VHS tape, which was transferred flawlessly.
sammalloy 4y ago
I have about 1000 slides awaiting to be digitized. They were taken by my parents in the 1970s.
t0bia_s 4y ago
I have a huge collection of my father's photo collection (about 10000 images on negatives and positives). He is photographer (as I'm) so there should be easthetic value too. We have Epson 850 Pro for digitalisation but it is incredibly time consuming, so actually expensive if done in free time.

m463 4y ago

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 4y ago
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.
mod 4y ago
I found a service, on amazon of all places, to do a film-to-digital conversion. I thought it was worth the money, and they sent back the original media and all that. In better shape than I sent it, actually--I was charged 3 bucks for a repair to a VHS tape, which was transferred flawlessly.

sammalloy 4y ago

I have about 1000 slides awaiting to be digitized. They were taken by my parents in the 1970s.

t0bia_s 4y ago

I have a huge collection of my father's photo collection (about 10000 images on negatives and positives). He is photographer (as I'm) so there should be easthetic value too. We have Epson 850 Pro for digitalisation but it is incredibly time consuming, so actually expensive if done in free time.