Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, it's possible to make an auto-playing DVD slideshow that folks can just watch on their TV. Just one thought. Now all we need is another 12 hours in every day to work on all of these projects. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- Subject: [Leica] Re: Family pictures and good cameras On Jul 1, 2007, at 12:35 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > One of my projects for 2007 has been to digitize all of my parents' > old > family photographs and make them accessible to relatives who aren't > ever > going to see and touch the physical albums that my mother has so > carefully > organized and classified. There are a lot of negatives; I try to > spend 90 > minutes each day working on them. Brian, You have touched on a hot topic. It seems that every photographer past a certain age is digitizing accumulated files of slides and negatives. I have over 4000 digitized photos in my collection now and the files hardly seem touched. The big problem for me, other than the time it takes for scanning, is the method of presentation to the interested relatives. How do you show off the pictures? Albums, no that would be too bulky. CDs, that's convenient but few of my relatives are computer literate enough, or have the patience to plow though a CD which may contain hundreds of photos. Blurb type books, OK for a special event like a 50th anniversary but far too expensive to distribute. Right now my digitized collection resides in a file of CDs and DVDs. They are a family's life in photography. But what do I do with them? Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information