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Thousands of slides Hello all, I was interested in what other photographers do with all their slides. I have literally thousands of slides that are in a file cabinet, some are professional quality, some personal and most likely some that need to be tossed. Quite a few years ago I was represented by a stock agency who went out of business and I am trying to figure out what to do with them. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Mark Feldstein |
Hi ya Patricia. I suggest you get a light box or table, a good loupe and start culling through and indexing them, a couple of boxes at a time, tossing the ones you don't want to scan into a separate pile, organize them by subject and sub-categories and then start scanning. Keep the trashable ones for awhile after the project in case you want to go through those again and change your mind deciding to save them. That process should help make them easier to find and view, and also less of them. If you never want to look at the keepers again, get archival storage sleeves from places like Light Impressions, among others, and store them that way in a cool and very dry and dark place. Take it light.
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Bob Cammarata |
Mark's advice is right on. My archives are stored in those sleeves in three-ring binders and categorized alphabetically by subject. The thousand or so I've scanned and uploaded to are arranged chronologically using the photo I.D. numbers. Bob
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Bob Cammarata |
...Sorry, the link didn't work. That last sentence was supposed to say..."The thousand or so I've scanned and uploaded to my website are arranged chronologically using the photo I.D. numbers."
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A large file cabinet and lots of index pages really help. Have fun and keep shooting, Mark H.
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