‘Slide shows’ are a little outdated in the modern era of sharing images on the internet. But in the days of analogue photography, a correctly exposed slide image is just about as good as it came.
I was recently looking for some old slides of my own taken in the 1970’s from the early days of my photography hobby. I didn’t find them. However I did discover a box of slides I had completely forgotten about from 1978 and some more from 1984/85.
I set up my flat bed scanner to be able to scan slides which it can do 4 slides at a time. After a bit of experimenting I managed to get it to do them unattended. Pop in the slides, hit scan and it would do a two pass scan and then save the individual images.
Seeing the images again for the first time in over 40 years has brought back a lot of happy memories. I’ve shared a few on line as well and been contacted by several old friends from back then as well. It has been a wonderful memory filled week.
Get out your old slides and live on the memories again.
A house I lived in Cyprus back in 1983. Some old cottages in Bebington. A new housing complex in Milton Keynes I lived in back in 1978. And me…..yes with significantly more hair than I have now, taken with my first car in about 1978.
I recently pulled out some old 35mm slides and photographed them. I have a scanner, but I found it doesn't do a great job. I projected them on a white surface and had my camera on a tripod. It worked okay. I need to do them over, and the others (several hundred). But I think I'm going to try the macro lens thing, where you mount the slide on the end of the lens with a light source shinning through the slide. Some of my slides are from late 60's and are 35mm half-frame (so small).