Old School, New School: photography
Oct. 13th, 2009 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechA friend of mine just uploaded some great pictures taken years ago. These were taken with a film-type camera (as opposed to a digital camera), so he had to pull out boxes, probably sort hundreds of pictures, cull them, scan and then upload them. The result, though, was that his friends got to see pictures of him taken years ago-- really neat.
Is there an easy way to get one's negative/prints scanned and organized? If not, then -there's- a product that needs inventing. Some device that you can feed in a stack of negatives and the device will clean and load the negative strips, scan the images and date them (most film negatives of the last 30 years did have processing dates imprinted on them).
Anyone know of something like this? Or a service? Probably the step that I hate most is the cleaning/scanning part: you can't just pull negatives out and scan them-- any lint of dust on the neg will ruin the result. Getting that off takes a few minutes each...and even then doesn't guarantee that schmutz won't attach itself in the short time between opening the scanner and dropping the negative in.
It's almost like photography was just "invented" in the last ten years if you go by what's on the archive sites like Flickr and Photobucket.
I have boxes of pictures and negatives that I doubt I'll ever get around to manually scanning.
Is there an easy way to get one's negative/prints scanned and organized? If not, then -there's- a product that needs inventing. Some device that you can feed in a stack of negatives and the device will clean and load the negative strips, scan the images and date them (most film negatives of the last 30 years did have processing dates imprinted on them).
Anyone know of something like this? Or a service? Probably the step that I hate most is the cleaning/scanning part: you can't just pull negatives out and scan them-- any lint of dust on the neg will ruin the result. Getting that off takes a few minutes each...and even then doesn't guarantee that schmutz won't attach itself in the short time between opening the scanner and dropping the negative in.
It's almost like photography was just "invented" in the last ten years if you go by what's on the archive sites like Flickr and Photobucket.
I have boxes of pictures and negatives that I doubt I'll ever get around to manually scanning.
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Date: 2009-10-14 06:54 am (UTC)The only caveat I'd say to watch, is that occasionally they are sloppy.
One place that printed some of my award winning photos put a HUGE fingerprint on the emulsion side of my Mt. Kilamanjaro portrait. I went right to the lab, and what did they do? Handed me some cleanser and said 'give it a try'. Got maybe 80% off, but not 100% undamaged. Emulsion side. ;/
Over 20 years ago I had some work done at a pro place in Whittier though, and the results were perfect!