Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's why I usually do when I want to send pictures to my sister (she has no computer). Works fine. In fact, with her DVD player, I don't even need to use DVD creation software--I can just dump the JPEGs onto a DVD and her player will just display them. For other family members with access to the internet (which is the vast majority of them), I just create web sites, like the one I did for my son's birthday last night. Nathan G Hopkinson wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!