Tag: Slides

My friend V gave me a really cool device that converts old slides and film negatives to a digital file.  I used it when I was teaching photography and helped a colleague preserve some wonderful pictures of her family.

Tonight I started thinking about my own slides I found while cleaning out a drawer and brought the file converter out.  After re-reading the steps to use the converter, I was successful.  I won’t do a whole slide show today but wanted to put this 1966 picture up of me with my family.  I’m the one on right front (eighth grade) and I am sure my mother and I sewed our fashion choices on the old Singer sewing machine.

Certainly next time I can center the cardboard frame more accurately.  I left that exposed pipe in, too.  In an upstairs closet, are forgotten metal carousel trays of slides to convert but just did the 24 images tonight.

Once you get a rhythm it doesn’t take too long.

What I’ve noticed is a LOT of the slides I’ve kept for decades are not worth converting into a digital file for posterity.

But did I put them in the trash?  Not yet.

Will save some of those treasures for a future post.

Thanks for the great gift, Vincie.