The slides are late 1950’s of Japan and Korea taken while my father was overseas. I’d like to somehow scan these but don’t know what I need or how to do it. After that I will get them ready to sell but I’m not even sure if people collect these…help!
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TwoFriendsTrading Reputation: 94 See TwoFriendsTrading's booth |
Good Afternoon……It’s not really difficult to scan them into your computer or onto an external hard drive – you just need the attachment for your scanner…………
Guess you could also just lay them on the glass but don’t think you would get the resolution you need to clean them up, adjust colors, etc., and store a good image……….
I started working on over 10,000 left by my father from all over the U.S. probably 5 years ago – didn’t get far before other things took over the time required to get them done………….
The advantage of the “slide/negative” attachment is it concentrates the scanner light onto the slide rather than disbursing it across the glass…some scanners and all-in-ones come with the attachment – most don’t..
I do know from experience it’s a time consuming project……..as for selling the actual slides don’t think there is much of a market…what I was planning to do was scan them onto an external hard drive, use an editing software program to clean them up and then upload the usable ones to listings and print a copy if/when I actually sold one…………….
Hope this helps………….Rod
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Rods_Books Reputation: 62 See Rods_Books' booth |
My boss bought this gizmo to get the slides into a usable picture in his computer. He got it from Costco a few years back. It works, I know because I was the one using it, but it is VERY time consuming. I would suggest it for personal use but not for what you are wanting to do. The final result were pictures he could use for the project he wanted to do, they were very good quality. I’m not at work so I can’t recall the name of the gizmo and if you want to know it, please bmail me and I can get it when I am next in the building.
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johngermaine Reputation: 576 See johngermaine's booth |
I used an HP negative scanner with my scanner and the pictures came out great. The negative scanner also works with slides. But, I don’t know if there is a market for old photographs.
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KBCreativeDesigns Reputation: 92 See KBCreativeDesigns' booth |
YES people collect everything. its finding that one person or them finding you. this kind of site is the right direction to network.i have an antique slide projector if your interested. i bet wal-mart or any drug stores that develope film can help you put n order.
good luck
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toneal5150 Reputation: 12 See toneal5150's booth |
I am looking at my unit right now. It is a 21C Film And Slide Digital Converter. I think I bought it at Walmart for about $30 last year. They normally go for about $70 but if you shop around you can find a deal. There are a number of other, similar units available. Check online or with eBay, etc. Yes, it is VERY time consuming. Mine lets you put a strip of 6 negatives (or umounted slides) into the carrier and you scan them into a file on your hard drive. There is software with it and you can do some basic adjustments before you upload them. After you upload them you can use digital software to make them pretty. It works with either positives or negatives and both color or black and white. Years back some flatbed scanners had a slide attachment available for them, but I don’t think many are available these days. I tried to scan some negatives on my all-in-one printer, but the image was too tiny to work with. If I had say, 5,000 slides I think I would simply get a slide projector and cull out all the best of them and discard the rest. Pictures of people that you don’t know will have little or no value. Pictures of popular areas, vacation spots, national parks, etc might have some general interest value. Collectors may have a different viewpoint, though. If you can identify the photo it will be worth a lot more. If the photos are of a military nature, maybe with persons that your father has identified, they will be of interest on the various military sites, where old timers (like me) are looking for their old buddies from the service. They wouldn’t bring any cash to you, but it might be very important to someone who is looking for that old friend.
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IAMPCBOB Reputation: 74 See IAMPCBOB's booth |
You can buy a slide adapter for your scanner and once you have it set up it’s not really much more time consuming than scanning individual photos – which can definitely take a while if you’re talking about a few hundred slides.
As far as value goes there can be a huge variation depending on the subjects. He could have taken photos of people or places with great historical significance or they could all be flowers and mountains or something. The more knowledge you have about your grandfather’s subjects and the locations he took the photos the better.
Another consideration is the quality of the photos. Lovely photos always generate interest while not-so-lovely ones depend on their subject for value.
Hope that helps.
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sparklemotion Reputation: 51 See sparklemotion's booth |
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