A Friendly Correction for those Man-Haters who Delve to be Single

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Prefatory to re-entering the workforce (details at later date), I am going to Eastern Canada for 2.5 weeks, starting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and working my way down to Toronto. Any advice, recommendations, suggestions, etc. are solicited.

Maybe go a few miles west and check out Guelph/Waterloo sort of their MIT/Berkeley? I've never wandered the cities only been there for client visits, but they are high tech, and high geek level college cities. check them out on your hipster travel guides?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Hello interweb friends,

I'll be seeing a lot of family at a memorial service in a few weeks, and I would like to bring a scanner, collect family photographs, digitize them, and put them in a Dropbox folder for everyone to have. Help me with the digitizing part -- does anyone know about how to do this well?

[Sparklehorse]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Hello interweb friends,

I'll be seeing a lot of family at a memorial service in a few weeks, and I would like to bring a scanner, collect family photographs, digitize them, and put them in a Dropbox folder for everyone to have. Help me with the digitizing part -- does anyone know about how to do this well?

I've worked on a similar project with my family in the past few years. I have a portable scanner that doesn't need to be attached to a computer when scanning documents and photos. I used that for most loose photos. I also have an ancient 4-in-1 printer that I've used to scan album pages. For these and also album pages scanned by other family members, I used PhotoShop to break them apart and do some light editing. The editing has primarily been enlarging and taking sepia cast off older photos but it's also been useful to fix certain problems. The enlargement has been a valuable tool because my family has a decent number of photographs from the 20s and 30s that are essentially contact prints. So the print is tiny (like 1"x2") but there is a lot of detail in them. The PhotoShop steps can be quite time consuming but YMMV and I find it to be one of the more enjoyable way to spend hours looking at a computer screen.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Prefatory to re-entering the workforce (details at later date), I am going to Eastern Canada for 2.5 weeks, starting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and working my way down to Toronto. Any advice, recommendations, suggestions, etc. are solicited.

I had dinner at a fancy steak place in Toronto once. The steak was great, but the best part was when you were sitting at the bar, and they brought over a cone-full of crispy bacon as a bar snack.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Hello interweb friends,

I'll be seeing a lot of family at a memorial service in a few weeks, and I would like to bring a scanner, collect family photographs, digitize them, and put them in a Dropbox folder for everyone to have. Help me with the digitizing part -- does anyone know about how to do this well?

Do you think your family members might be willing to entrust their photos to you for a few weeks while you have them scanned professionally?

It seems like a lot of hassle for you to try to turn all of this around during a memorial service, which I assume isn't lasting multiple days.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Sparklehorse

I've worked on a similar project with my family in the past few years. I have a portable scanner that doesn't need to be attached to a computer when scanning documents and photos. I used that for most loose photos. I also have an ancient 4-in-1 printer that I've used to scan album pages. For these and also album pages scanned by other family members, I used PhotoShop to break them apart and do some light editing. The editing has primarily been enlarging and taking sepia cast off older photos but it's also been useful to fix certain problems. The enlargement has been a valuable tool because my family has a decent number of photographs from the 20s and 30s that are essentially contact prints. So the print is tiny (like 1"x2") but there is a lot of detail in them. The PhotoShop steps can be quite time consuming but YMMV and I find it to be one of the more enjoyable way to spend hours looking at a computer screen.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Do you think your family members might be willing to entrust their photos to you for a few weeks while you have them scanned professionally?

It seems like a lot of hassle for you to try to turn all of this around during a memorial service, which I assume isn't lasting multiple days.

What I'd heard was that there isn't that much difference between professional and desktop scanners, and that with old photos the limiting factor is the resolution of the original, not the scanner. Sparklehorse, does that sound right? I think I'll buy a scanner for this project, since I don't have one -- maybe this one.

I figure I'll be on West Coast time after the memorial service, which will have an early dinner on the East Coast, so I won't mind sitting in my hotel room and scanning photos.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

What I'd heard was that there isn't that much difference between professional and desktop scanners, and that with old photos the limiting factor is the resolution of the original, not the scanner. Sparklehorse, does that sound right? I think I'll buy a scanner for this project, since I don't have one -- maybe this one.

I figure I'll be on West Coast time after the memorial service, which will have an early dinner on the East Coast, so I won't mind sitting in my hotel room and scanning photos.

I think that's right about the scanners. To pay a professional is mostly paying for someone else to log in the hours, I believe. I think it's sort of like consignment to an eBay store (a la Catherine Keener in 40 Year Old Virgin) versus selling directly on the site oneself. As mentioned earlier, I enjoyed doing the scanning etc. but I'm a photo bug.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

What I'd heard was that there isn't that much difference between professional and desktop scanners, and that with old photos the limiting factor is the resolution of the original, not the scanner. Sparklehorse, does that sound right? I think I'll buy a scanner for this project, since I don't have one -- maybe this one.

I figure I'll be on West Coast time after the memorial service, which will have an early dinner on the East Coast, so I won't mind sitting in my hotel room and scanning photos.

This is all true. Judy does photo montage videos and scans hundreds of photos herself.

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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Sparklehorse

I think that's right about the scanners. To pay a professional is mostly paying for someone else to log in the hours, I believe. I think it's sort of like consignment to an eBay store (a la Catherine Keener in 40 Year Old Virgin) versus selling directly on the site oneself. As mentioned earlier, I enjoyed doing the scanning etc. but I'm a photo bug.

I started a project like this for all of my old print photos. The time consuming part, for me, anyways, is the categorization and figuring out who is in the photo, where and when it was taken, and how best to put it in with the rest of the collection. That part, I can't really outsource. But like Sparklehorse said, I like it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sparklehorse

consignment to an ebay store

nttawwt

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I started a project like this for all of my old print photos. The time consuming part, for me, anyways, is the categorization and figuring out who is in the photo, where and when it was taken, and how best to put it in with the rest of the collection. That part, I can't really outsource. But like Sparklehorse said, I like it.

Maybe it would be helpful to ask people to provide that information with photos? Or maybe I should find a way to crowdsource it once I put things up on Dropbox.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

nttawwt

You think you can market your own goods more efficiently than ebay and at lower opportunity cost?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

[Hank Chinaski]

Let me just say that I do understand how people can live in Pennsylvania. I was just at the State store. They don't carry high end anything. They have no Blanton's, I'm forced to drink Bullett's. The wine choices top out at $25? B&b sebby is this just because I'm in prole neighborhoods?