Editing

Started going through some of my boxes of transparencies. First cull is of the real rubbish. This has removed 75% of the images. Next will be a cross check against the images I have in hangers. It may be that I have master versions already saved. therefore this remains ng 25% may also be culled by 75%. No idea how many images I have looked at, but a box of mounted slides in boxes is 1000 images approximately, un mounted in sleeves possibly 2+ times that many.

Archives and Space

One of things I'm starting to look is my photo archive.

Having photographs that I have shot, going back more than 50 years, plus all the family archives that now stretch back well over a hundred years I am running into a problem of space and what to do about the future.

It is hard to count how much I have but at a very conservative guess over three quarters of a million images.

It was brought home to me strongly today when I opened an archive box. The contents are over 5000 slides that are spares from early shoots.

No idea what exactly is here. Many will go straight out but even a quick check shows there are lots of pictures of the family, houses and cars that I don't have anywhere else. 

I also tried to do a list of how many different formats I have stored. At a rough count I recon that there are nearly 80 different film formats counting, colour and B+W and slides. Plus all the polaroid formats. Ranging in size from 110 to 10"x8". Plus digital and some video and a bit of audio. 

Archives

I have in my collection many thousand slides. many going back nearly 60 years. Scanning them on a film scanner is slow and mostly overkill.

So I have resurrected my old computer, with a monitor from an old PC. Although not used in 10 years, it fired up fine and although slow it is not a problem as the bottleneck is how fast I can change slides.

Just found a box with almost 1000 slides inside. It will take a few days to copy and any that are worth scanning at higher resolution can be put through my film scanner.