I just posted this under General Discussions. I'm hoping that someone there or in this forum topic will be able to offer some advice.
My late husband was a tremendous slide taker. Until the 1990's, he took hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures of family, friends, and scenery. We watched the slide shows using a projector and large screen.
Needless to say, all that stopped with the advent of digital photography. Like everybody else, we switched to using our cell phones as cameras. Much easier and more flexible as to what you can do with all those pictures and videos.
The problem now is, what do I do with all those old slides? There are big fat albums each holding hundreds of slides, plus lots of shoeboxes. DH died about 15 years
ago, so obviously I didn't exactly rush to do anything about the slides. In fact, I've tried to avoid even thinking about the job of going through them, sorting them, digitizing them, printing them or whatever, and giving most of them to my kids and grandkids. They are the whole history of our family since we got married. So I really want to keep them. But what a job.
What complicates things is that we did digitize several hundred of them, because we were able to see them on our TV or computer. Alas, that is no longer the case. CD players, DVD's, etc. are as much a thing of the past as the old fashioned albums holding prints. So I have about a dozen useless DVD's with the digitized images of some of the slides.
So, what to do? No one will want a bunch of useless old 2" by 2" slides, so I've got to find a format that will work. I've come to the conclusion that old-fashioned paper prints are the best format for anything you want to keep. Paper will last, without new electronic changes every few years making our pictures obsolete.
I'll probably end up going through at least a lot of these pictures, sending them to a company such as Digmypics (Digitize My Pictures, get it?) and have them digitized and returned to me on a flash drive. That company also advertises that they can print them in an album, which would probably save me a lot of trouble, if their printing quality is any good. Maybe I could try that out on one album and see if it's good enough. If not, I could use the flash drive to send images to Shutterfly or Snapfish.
Or, does anyone have any other ideas? My husband was a dear, kind soul who probably had no idea how things would change in the future, and what a headache he was giving me!
My late husband was a tremendous slide taker. Until the 1990's, he took hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures of family, friends, and scenery. We watched the slide shows using a projector and large screen.
Needless to say, all that stopped with the advent of digital photography. Like everybody else, we switched to using our cell phones as cameras. Much easier and more flexible as to what you can do with all those pictures and videos.
The problem now is, what do I do with all those old slides? There are big fat albums each holding hundreds of slides, plus lots of shoeboxes. DH died about 15 years
ago, so obviously I didn't exactly rush to do anything about the slides. In fact, I've tried to avoid even thinking about the job of going through them, sorting them, digitizing them, printing them or whatever, and giving most of them to my kids and grandkids. They are the whole history of our family since we got married. So I really want to keep them. But what a job.
What complicates things is that we did digitize several hundred of them, because we were able to see them on our TV or computer. Alas, that is no longer the case. CD players, DVD's, etc. are as much a thing of the past as the old fashioned albums holding prints. So I have about a dozen useless DVD's with the digitized images of some of the slides.
So, what to do? No one will want a bunch of useless old 2" by 2" slides, so I've got to find a format that will work. I've come to the conclusion that old-fashioned paper prints are the best format for anything you want to keep. Paper will last, without new electronic changes every few years making our pictures obsolete.
I'll probably end up going through at least a lot of these pictures, sending them to a company such as Digmypics (Digitize My Pictures, get it?) and have them digitized and returned to me on a flash drive. That company also advertises that they can print them in an album, which would probably save me a lot of trouble, if their printing quality is any good. Maybe I could try that out on one album and see if it's good enough. If not, I could use the flash drive to send images to Shutterfly or Snapfish.
Or, does anyone have any other ideas? My husband was a dear, kind soul who probably had no idea how things would change in the future, and what a headache he was giving me!
