35 mm slides with carosels.

[bc.gold 3,403]

This afternoons dump find.

 

[Handy Don 12,235]

1 hour ago, bc.gold said:

This afternoons dump find.

 

 

Sorry, but I would have left those for someone else!

What do you plan for them?

[bc.gold 3,403]

2 hours ago, Handy Don said:

Sorry, but I would have left those for someone else!

What do you plan for them?

 

Ninety carousels each with 140 slides, 12,600 slides total  from the 1960's, 70's and 80's.

 

Hopefully find something of interest.

 

The examples below are not mine, just showing what has recently sold.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by bc.gold

[bc.gold 3,403]

I've only been in possession of these slides less than a day and found something of interest already.

 

Edited November 6, 2021 by bc.gold

[Handy Don 12,235]

Yep, I can see the potential now!

I guess if you find the right stuff, a slide scanner might be worthwhile for digitizing them, now that storage prices have fallen so low.

[rmaynard 15,512]

I don't know why someone would want someone else's vacation pictures. I used to take slides back in the 60's 70's and 80's, then switched to prints when my projector went on the fritz. I had over 50 carousels that I could not give away. That's why my whole lot ended up in the landfill. I had all of my slides converted to digital files. 

[Handy Don 12,235]

57 minutes ago, rmaynard said:

I don't know why someone would want someone else's vacation pictures

In general, I agree. After doing some research yesterday, though, I learned that it isn't about the vacationers themselves but about the backgrounds and settings capturing times and places of historical interest. Especially valued are locales that have seen substantial physical, political, or cultural changes since the images were captured.

 

Certainly possible that the "donor" of the ones @bc.gold picked up had already digitized them.

[bc.gold 3,403]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

In general, I agree. After doing some research yesterday, though, I learned that it isn't about the vacationers themselves but about the backgrounds and settings capturing times and places of historical interest. Especially valued are locales that have seen substantial physical, political, or cultural changes since the images were captured.

 

Certainly possible that the "donor" of the ones @bc.gold picked up had already digitized them.

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

Reminds me that I've got a number of carousels that my Godmother gave me about 55 years ago.  She was a world traveler and these are possibly exotic locales.  I don't think I've viewed these in over 50 years!

 

What's a good digitizer to buy?

[bc.gold 3,403]

23 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

Reminds me that I've got a number of carousels that my Godmother gave me about 55 years ago.  She was a world traveler and these are possibly exotic locales.  I don't think I've viewed these in over 50 years!

 

What's a good digitizer to buy?

 

I would purchase a 22 megabyte scanner that  is memory card storage capable.

 

Browse the consumer reviews and check out some tube vids for a scanner that interests you. As for cloud storage I would never allow myself to become hostage, large capacity SSD hard drives are very cheap to buy these days.

 

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by bc.gold

[formariz 11,987]

3 hours ago, Handy Don said:

In general, I agree. After doing some research yesterday, though, I learned that it isn't about the vacationers themselves but about the backgrounds and settings capturing times and places of historical interest. Especially valued are locales that have seen substantial physical, political, or cultural changes since the images were captured.

 

Certainly possible that the "donor" of the ones @bc.gold picked up had already digitized them.

For some of the work I do specially the yokes I do a lot of research in order to date some and to  also verify the changes or evolution of certain designs and customs through out the years. Most of that information is really only obtainable by viewing old photos and old movies that individuals took either on vacation or of some important event. Of most importance again are the yokes and information related to them since at that time no one was able to take photos or video, exception being tourists or researchers of some type that found local activities and customs interesting . Countless precious bits of information and documentation have been found that way and saved for future generations to enjoy it , which otherwise would be lost forever. 

[Handy Don 12,235]

2 hours ago, bc.gold said:

As for cloud storage I would never allow myself to become hostage, large capacity SSD hard drives are very cheap to buy these days.

 

Am in partial agreement on this.

I use both cloud and local storage. Personally, I choose to encrypt my data in the cloud and find it very convenient and inexpensive to have access from many different devices. I periodically make backups on local disk storage of my different devices and also of selected (important to me) data from what's in the cloud. We use portable USB-connected disks and we have begun storing one 2 TB unit offsite as well (we also keep our current backup disk in our "go bag").

SSD is a good technology. Disks are still good if not used intensely and stored properly and are still marginally less expensive.

[stevasaurus 22,764]

I've inherited some of media you guys are talking about...slides, prints and negatives.  I've got an ION PICS 2SD that can scan prints, slides and negatives to a card or to my computer.  It will also print pictures onto photo paper in excellent quality.  Other then finding long lost relatives, I look for pictures of the old automobiles, trains (steam) and air planes.  

   Here is a scanned one of my Mom & me taken in 1950.  Check out the wall paper.  

 

 

 

[squonk 41,151]

35 minutes ago, stevasaurus said:

I've inherited some of media you guys are talking about...slides, prints and negatives.  I've got an ION PICS 2SD that can scan prints, slides and negatives to a card or to my computer.  It will also print pictures onto photo paper in excellent quality.  Other then finding long lost relatives, I look for pictures of the old automobiles, trains (steam) and air planes.  

   Here is a scanned one of my Mom & me taken in 1950.  Check out the wall paper.  

 

 

 

You haven't changed a bit and that wallpaper was in my house when we moved in in 88! 

[bc.gold 3,403]

Wall paper that kills.

 

 

[bc.gold 3,403]

On 11/6/2021 at 7:51 PM, Handy Don said:

Yep, I can see the potential now!

I guess if you find the right stuff, a slide scanner might be worthwhile for digitizing them, now that storage prices have fallen so low.

 

I put them up on a free ad, a young woman from Winnipeg has spoken for them.

 

She uses them for art projects, here's one she sent me a picture of.

 

[Handy Don 12,235]

56 minutes ago, bc.gold said:

 

I put them up on a free ad, a young woman from Winnipeg has spoken for them.

 

She uses them for art projects, here's one she sent me a picture of.

 

What a stunning idea! So creative.

Of course, you probably have enough material for 1000 lampshades! It'd be interesting to see what else she creates. I still recall a woman who wore a dress made of Gold American Express Cards to some gala.