Starting to scan my Dads 1000s of slides....

[DNG]

He was an avid photographer and used Kodachrome and Ektachrome 99% of the time.

I am using a Plustek 7300 with Silverfast SE Plus software.
and I scan at 5000dpi (optical with no NR or Scratch Reduction software enabled)

Here is the first of this roll of Ektachrome, 1977, a little adj before scanning in Silverfast SE Plus... No post after scan on this one. I scan to TIFF's first. the TMNs are JPGs at 100% IQ compression.

Taken in Miami, Fl. in front of some constitution lots of his new sub-division...(He was the General Contractor & 1/2 owner)
My Dad & Mom....

 

[Steve_F]

This must be a wonderful journey for you. My mum has boxes of Kodachrome 25 in the loft. These are 40-45 years old. When we were infants/kids. My dad has retired abroad and now shoots digital. The quality of the slides is superb, like they were taken yesterday.
The problem now is my mother has thrown some out. More concerned about her image from the 60's than what I see as important family history. All the ones of us kids are kept of course.
I've an Epson FB scanner, V600 and it would take forever and the scanner wouldn't do them justice.



Steve.

 

[jesse1dog]

Very interested in what you are doing - and how.
What snags are you coming across?
How long is a single scan taking?

jesse

 

[DNG]

the scanning software allows you to save right to jpeg. THat will save alot of time. Choose maximum quality 12.

I prefer TIFF as a scan, after I run it through ACDSee Pro 3, I save-as a JPG at 100% guality

Very interested in what you are doing - and how.
What snags are you coming across?
How long is a single scan taking?

jesse

I have found no snags... I use the "Multi-Scan" option on 2 scans, (although I can have up to 16 scans per slide) and at 5000dpi it takes about 3 min per slide for a Tiff, that is about a 85mb file when done.

 

[DNG]

A few more,

The home I grew up in... My Dad build a Full Darkroom at the back of inside of the garage... It was a 5' x 25' raised stoop that he walled in and added a door...
This home is where my dad got me stated in photography. I loved wet printing... maybe one day, I'll wet print again.

An Interior of one my Dads Model homes... Conversation Pit family-rooms were popular in the 70's 😉

No Post work done yet... They will clean fine in colors when I am done.

 

[jan normandale]

that's a lotta scanning DNG!

 

[Mister E]

Sounds like you need to hit up scancafe.

 

[LKeithR]

I bought a V750 a couple years ago to scan a bunch of my Dad's stuff--plus a ot of my own from the 80s. It's a huge job. Unless you have a real need for the ultra high res files I would just scan them at very low res for archive purposes and web viewing and then go back and make larger scans of the real "keepers" or ones you want to print. You'll find it makes your job much easier and faster...

 

[p.giannakis]

Well done DNG, i can imagine how important is this project for you.
My father bought a Yashica minimatic-C n the 60's and he recorded his day to day life in Australia and back to Greece in the early 70's. He was keeping the pictures in two bin liners - they must had been hundreds and i remember myself going through the pictures when i was kid.
After my father's death in 2001, my mother threw away all the pictures without asking us. She found it very difficult to keep them, she only kept some wedding pictures and threw the rest. I still cannot believe it.

 

[imokruok]

Ditto on the time. I have done the same with 6 or 7 Carousels of a couple of my parents' vacations from about the time I was born on a 4990 and a V700. It's a lovely experience, looking closely at each shot. But it takes *forever*....

 

[hexiplex]

My dad has a few boxes of slides from his rallying and world travelling adventures that I have been going through recently, it is really quite a journey scanning them, makes me truly realize that my father was once my age too, and seeing what he saw through the lens of his Nikon F in the 70's with clarity and colour preserved as if the slides were developed and mounted yesterday is quite amazing.

It is sad that the photographic evidence of the (mis)adventures of many of my contemporaries will never be available to their children, posterity, just another reason to keep shooting film until they stop making it.

 

[Andy Kibber]

In 2009, I scanned a number of family slides from the late 70's and early 80's. I bought a 10" x 12" lightbox to preview batches of slides before scanning. It made a huge difference. I'd probably still be scanning if I hadn't vetted the slides first!

 

[DNG]

Sounds like you need to hit up scancafe.

Too expensive for this po boy

Well done DNG, i can imagine how important is this project for you.
My father bought a Yashica minimatic-C n the 60's and he recorded his day to day life in Australia and back to Greece in the early 70's. He was keeping the pictures in two bin liners - they must had been hundreds and i remember myself going through the pictures when i was kid.
After my father's death in 2001, my mother threw away all the pictures without asking us. She found it very difficult to keep them, she only kept some wedding pictures and threw the rest. I still cannot believe it.

Sorry to hear that. My Dad bought the scanner I'm using after Mom Passed a year earlier, and was going to scan their history to help him cope.. It didn't work.

I have about 50+ carousels plus tons of photographs and negatives to go though...

Ditto on the time. I have done the same with 6 or 7 Carousels of a couple of my parents' vacations from about the time I was born on a 4990 and a V700. It's a lovely experience, looking closely at each shot. But it takes *forever*....

I do look at all the slides on my 12x18 light box, but only scan family and special photographs that have memories of a slice of his life, and add to his history.

 

[dfoo]

Great pics DNG... Keep them coming.

 

[Tikles]

Yeah keep the Miami pics coming! I live in Miami and would love to see if I can recognize an area. 🙂

 

[DNG]

I have been scanning a few from 1968 Jamaica...
I will post a few shortly...
I never know what location I'll be scanning, I just pick up a box/roll from the bag/storage box.

 

[ampguy]

hmm

hmm

Is that house in the SF Valley? 😎

A few more,

The home I grew up in... My Dad build a Full Darkroom at the back of inside of the garage... It was a 5' x 25' raised stoop that he walled in and added a door...
This home is where my dad got me stated in photography. I loved wet printing... maybe one day, I'll wet print again.



An Interior of one my Dads Model homes... Conversation Pit family-rooms were popular in the 70's 😉

No Post work done yet... They will clean fine in colors when I am done.

 

[DNG]

Is that house in the SF Valley? 😎

Pembrook Pines Sub-Division in Davie, Fla. West of University Dr.

 

[DNG]

A few from 1968 Jamaica

A few from 1968 Jamaica

I'm thinking he was using a Nikon FTN with a 50mm f/1.4 Niikkor. He bought it new in 1967 I think..1st finder with Center Weighted metering,. a revolutionary idea 😱

Ektachrome Slides

 

[gekopaca]

It's a huge job. Unless you have a real need for the ultra high res files I would just scan them at very low res for archive purposes and web viewing and then go back and make larger scans of the real "keepers" or ones you want to print. You'll find it makes your job much easier and faster...

+++++1!!!!!


1) First, be sure all the slides are neatly arranged in neutral boxes and keep them in very good condition : dry and cold (constant) place - slides might be damaged in less than 70 years.
2) Select some of them (maybe 300 or 500) for the web, then scan them in jpeg
3) Select the very best ones (50? 80?) and scan them in top quality (high res, Tiff or DNG files) and produce something with (an auto-edition book, prints for an exhibition…).

You know, editing (selection + production) is always the best job we can do with pictures : magnifying artistic works, telling stories, showing results…

I like very much those you shown to us; it seems like a Casavetes's movie