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Post by Tex on Jun 21, 2010 7:19:27 GMT -6
That's yours truly standing on the right in front of the teacher. This was taken in Austin in 1959. I found it while cleaning out some of my mom's papers after she went to the nursing home. Attachments:
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jun 21, 2010 7:47:43 GMT -6
This is from the family archives... 1960 on Lake Huron, contemplating my next engineering marvel, a dam across that seepage (build it right and in an hour I could back up a pond of at least 50 square feet)  |
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Post by Tex on Jun 21, 2010 8:13:35 GMT -6
Good picture, but what are the brown splats on the picture?
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jun 21, 2010 10:17:06 GMT -6
Regrettably, my father had a 70mm camera (nothing regrettable there, great camera he picked up in Germany while in the Army) and took slides, the film was sandwiched between thin glass and in an aluminum frame. Theoretically a great way to mount slide film. Unfortunately our basement flooded after a bad thunderstorm and before the film fused to the glass a little bit of mold got in there. Its impossible to take the sandwich apart to clean off the mold without destroying the film.
In addition, the film is very faded now, and this was color enhanced, with only makes the mold more enhanced (along with the bad scan lines, I did this about 10 years ago, I may have to go through the collection and rescan some of these it would appear)
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Post by Tex on Jun 21, 2010 10:33:29 GMT -6
I found a bunch of old color slides (Kodachrome 35mm I believe) in my mom's stuff and would like to convert them to snapshots or digital. Do you know the best way to do this. They are still in the Argus magazines - I found the projector so maybe I can have a slide show. The photos are primarily of summers in Canada in the early sixties.
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Post by innit Geezer on Jun 21, 2010 16:08:55 GMT -6
I found a bunch of old color slides (Kodachrome 35mm I believe) in my mom's stuff and would like to convert them to snapshots or digital. Do you know the best way to do this. Gordon and Tex-- nice pictures, I'll have to dig out an old photo of myself to post. Tex -- I don't know the best way to convert your old slides to pictures but an easy out would be to give them to a photo studio (or CVS/Walgreens possibly) and I'm sure it could be done. Hassle free! |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jun 21, 2010 17:04:47 GMT -6
Tex I think your best bet would be to go digital. If you dont have a good scanner find someone who does, maybe a neighbor kid, and give them a few bucks. For 35mm slides youre going to need 1000 dpi or greater to get all the details
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Post by Tex on Jun 21, 2010 20:22:38 GMT -6
I have a scanner (that how I posted the original picture). I found the old Argus slide projector and found several pictures that I wanted. One was from Summer 1963 on the Atlantic shore at Shediac, New Brunswick. We were staying with my dad's old war buddy from Canadian intelligence. The photo shows my dad' s friend, his wife, and my mom sitting by the sea in Adironback chairs chatting. The picture brought back fond memories. I am sure that no one has seen the slide since 1965.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jun 22, 2010 0:00:55 GMT -6
Nice pictures guys.
Got to start digging around in the old photo shoe box and see what I have.
Joe
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jun 22, 2010 6:04:07 GMT -6
I have a scanner (that how I posted the original picture). I found the old Argus slide projector and found several pictures that I wanted. One was from Summer 1963 on the Atlantic shore at Shediac, New Brunswick. We were staying with my dad's old war buddy from Canadian intelligence. The photo shows my dad' s friend, his wife, and my mom sitting by the sea in Adironback chairs chatting. The picture brought back fond memories. I am sure that no one has seen the slide since 1965. I can understand wanting to see the slides through a projector, it seems the most natural way to view them and brings back fond memories of the family gathered around to do the same. I still have the projector for those 70mm slides, but the mechanics of the thing causes every slide to jam and bend their aluminum frames. Also, with the colors being so washed out from time, they look a lot better on a monitor anymore. Tex, load your scanned slides on a USB drive and find a large screen TV with a USB port and "slide show mode". Not as quaint but still satisfying. |
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Post by Tex on Jun 22, 2010 6:44:59 GMT -6
The slide projector was jamming until I figured out that I did not quite have the magazine in it's track. The projector worked well but there were spider webs down by the lamp and those burning off stunk up the house.
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