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The Toy Box
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Welcome to the toybox.
Digitizing Photos
Wow, have I been a slacker! It's been weeks since I've assembled a new toybox.
I'm claiming spring fever as my excuse. I have all the symptoms...restlessness, whimsy... a real reluctance to be indoors. And I might have gone on like this, an aimless romantic, communing with the woods until the real heat of summer, had it not been for my mother's intervening phone call.
It seems she received a cd from my aunt, containing old family photos, lovingly digitized and restored by my cousin. She was delighted with the gift and her spirits were quite hight, until she opened a large photo box of her own. As she browsed photos from sepia to color, she was shocked at the wear and damage prints and negatives sustain knocking around in a cardboard box for decades. There was actually a panic in her voice that 3 timezones could not mask. It was as if these precious artifacts had suddenly contracted an aggressively mortal disease.
We spent hours on the phone, googling, reading, comparing, instant messaging, with an urgency, the likes of which only my mother can inspire, in her race to save her patients.
So this toybox is for Mom...
...um, along with that new scanner, which should be arriving, via Fedex, today.
Happy Mothers Day
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First things first
Scanning
What About Old Negatives
Digital Restoration
Digitizing Super 8
This is for Taryn. Thanks for nudging me to broaden my scope. Most sources, I've read, recommend professional transfer from 8mm to digital, along with the following advice, courtesy of http://wkurz.com/download.php (Super 8 Cine Film to Video Suite 2).
"If you have your movies digitized commercially by a "transfer
mill", please insist on the delivery of a "transfer master"
(preferably on magnetic storage media - tapes normally last
more than 15 years). This gives you the possibility to redo
your DVD in case it is not readable anymore. A DVD should
never be the only deliverable returned to you."
But... I DO love toys, so I offer my usual "Embarassment-of-Riches"
Digitizing Film
Care of cd's and dvd's
Transfer Equipment
Super 8 as a Viable Medium
Okay... this is drifting off topic, but there's some cool stuff here!
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