Big boxes of Kodak pics.

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I have a box full of pics I've taken over the decades. These aren't digital pics, they are film & Kodak camera pics. 100s of 'em. Some from the 1970s. Some day, when I have time, I'm going to sort them out. Am I the only one with a big box of pics that you are going to add captions & identify people?
 

When my MIL died, we had to clean out her apartment. There were boxes of slides that we looked through. My late wife did not recognize any of the people, so we tossed them.
Some time ago, I tossed out a number of photo albums of photos I took while traveling with my late wife. My kids would not be interested as she was not their mother.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I have a box full of pics I've taken over the decades. These aren't digital pics, they are film & Kodak camera pics. 100s of 'em. Some from the 1970s. Some day, when I have time, I'm going to sort them out. Am I the only one with a big box of pics that you are going to add captions & identify people?
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I have a big box of old photos .. but I've already scanned them into my computer long ago...
 

I've got a couple of boxes of old "slides" that I took while in the military, in the early/mid 60's. I've fired up the old slide projector a couple of times...last time, about 3 years ago....and they still seem to be ok. Someday I may do some research to see if it's possible to transfer them to a DVD.
 
I have one smaller box of photos from the 70s through 2000 or so, when we used an actual camera and film. I only have a small stack of them left to put in a photo album I've purchased for just this reason. The rest were tagged, inserted by date, into other albums at the time they were taken. At one time I put some on a CD, then DVD. Now, the DVD players are almost obsolete.

If my family wishes to look through these albums, they are welcome to. But I won't redo them, put them on memory sticks, or a micro SD card, or in my computer.
No need, as more current photos are the ones we cherish the most.
 
Don M. said:
I've got a couple of boxes of old "slides" that I took while in the military, in the early/mid 60's. I've fired up the old slide projector a couple of times...last time, about 3 years ago....and they still seem to be ok. Someday I may do some research to see if it's possible to transfer them to a DVD.
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Yes it is possible. There is a company that advertises on a Seattle radio that will send you a box in which to place your slides, movies and such. They will copy them on the media of your choice and return the originals and new copies to you. I'm sure similar services are offered across the country.

A couple of years ago I bought a device that allows you to copy slides to your pc hard drive. It is a slow process, doing a single slide at a time, but over time I have managed to make digital copies of a lot of my Navy slides from the 1960s.
 
I have thousands and thousands of old photos. I do have them roughly divided into categories....family pics, individual pics, trips, etc.

A few years ago, I made my mom sit down with me to try to identify some really old ones. She'd say, "Oh, that's Uncle Bob's first wife's sister" and directly into the trash it would go. If it was a genuine relative, I'd note it on the back and put it back in the box so that my daughter could throw it away in 20 years...LOL. That'll give her something to do when I'm gone.

Now, I just have to decide which of the 13 different copies of my 4th grade school picture to keep.....
 
I have a big box of pictures too. Some belonged to my parents and grandmother. Some I have sorted and put into categorized envelopes. Some were still in the envelopes they came in after they were developed. Some are polaroids. Many of the pics are of family members. I've been slowly scanning them and putting them into a family photos group on Facebook. My relatives are loving these pictures and the history that is captioned when I post them! Some are old pictures of their parents, grandparents and of them as babies and children. Quite a few are from family reunions. I have many more to go through.
 
What a great idea, Diva! I've been going through lots of old photos also, but mine are mostly in albums, though I do have a few boxes. That's in addition to the thousands of slides mostly taken by my husband. Slides were a big thing then, but unless you scan and digitize each one, they are mostly useless now.

Trying to decide what to do with all these pictures. My kids and grandkids will probably want some of them, but who should get what? Maybe I should remove them from the albums and just divide them into separate piles, and then mail them to each recipient? Only my son lives nearby. This was not a problem for previous generations, who only had a few of those precious black and white or sepia prints to hand down.

Thanks to digital photography, most of these pictures are not that precious any more. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of our grandkids, who are all grown now, one with babies of her own, and we even have hundreds of pictures of those babies! So what to do with all these pictures of our own lives?

I am beginning to think that old-fashioned, print pictures are the best. At least, they are always there, and will be available to future generations. All the "great" electronic innovations seem to become obsolete within a few years. (Slides, camcorders, tapes, vcr disks, digital pictures on the computer, now everybody has them on their phone, all kinds of editing possibilities, etc.) I'm as bad as everyone else, but a part of me is turning into an old-fashioned geezer, longing for the days when a picture was just a picture, and it was precious.
 
I corralled all of the family photos from 1800s cabinet cards to Polaroid prints from the 1970s into a single box.

I keep waiting for someone in the family to show interest in them.

If no one surfaces I will burn them the next time I move.

I hate to see strangers pawing through family photos at estate sales, flea markets, etc…
 
About 15 years ago we were in an antique store in Maine that had a box of really old (late 1800s > very early 1900s) portraits, with a sign that said "Instant Ancestors".
 
We have several photo albums that I'm glad we have. Photos of our daughter, at all ages, growing up. First bicycle, dance recitals, school days - Jr. Kindergarten to high school and college.

I've lost too many photos I had on hard drives over the years, though I have some on a memory stick.
 
Don M. said:
I've got a couple of boxes of old "slides" that I took while in the military, in the early/mid 60's. I've fired up the old slide projector a couple of times...last time, about 3 years ago....and they still seem to be ok. Someday I may do some research to see if it's possible to transfer them to a DVD.
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https://www.digmypics.com/
I've used this service for 35 mm slides, some that were 75 years old. They do a very decent job, but It costs some money (about $1 per slide a few years ago). They are almost as good as the original slides. I project them on an 11 X 7 ft screen in my entertainment room and can't see any pixels, but there is a hint of grain that most people wouldn't notice. You can also digitize slides yourself, but unless you go with the most expensive commercial equipment, it won't provide the same quality. Prints are probably easier to scan on a home scanner. Maybe they have improved home slide scanners in recent years. I haven't been watching.

I don't own a slide projector any longer, and I haven't shown slides in many years, so it's hard for me to compare slides to digitized slides, but they are close.
 
I have been sorting and giving away photos for a while now. I have some I can't identify of grandchildren when they were babies. Wish I had put dates and names on the back of all of them. The kids will have to help with that.

I am keeping the ones from the last ten years or so, since I retired.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I have a box full of pics I've taken over the decades. These aren't digital pics, they are film & Kodak camera pics. 100s of 'em. Some from the 1970s. Some day, when I have time, I'm going to sort them out. Am I the only one with a big box of pics that you are going to add captions & identify people?
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I've scanned most of the pics(and slides) that are important. I have multiple copies of the photos on varoius hard drives, and uploaded to my Google Photos.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I have a box full of pics I've taken over the decades. These aren't digital pics, they are film & Kodak camera pics. 100s of 'em. Some from the 1970s. Some day, when I have time, I'm going to sort them out. Am I the only one with a big box of pics that you are going to add captions & identify people?
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hollydolly said:
I have a big box of old photos .. but I've already scanned them into my computer long ago...
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Nathan said:
I've scanned most of the pics(and slides) that are important. I have multiple copies of the photos on varoius hard drives, and uploaded to my Google Photos.
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Ditto scanned all mine and put them on a USB drive and google cloud.. (y)
 
I did until my parent’s house burned. (My dad died in that fire.) I still had some pictures, but then our home caught fire and had to be destroyed. The only pictures left today are the ones my sister kept, which is maybe only 25 or so.
 

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