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Yes thats right my dad put them hasselblads on the rockets!!!!!

Such stuff that dreams are made of

Anyway Rollo how did you know that??????

Will look into the four slide mount Alan Thank you

NASA used Hasselblad for all of the moon missions. Those were the days!

"These are 828s and 35 mm and and even some glass plates put through a hasselblad of the 1960"

What you need to do is to get a 35mm SLR camera - with standard lens fittings.
You then need a proper copying gadget which will have bellows a but like great grand dad's camera. These gadgets are not so cheap and have to be hundted down. Quite often they come with a camera body. As well as odd photo sizes you can then use the setup for all sorts of stuff such as old certificates, wills, oil paintings and so on and on.

You can get Russian screw mount converters to OM and Nikon.

Kemp,

I purchased a dedicated slide/negative scanner. It accepts four mounted slides or four negatives at a time. Once you get into the swing of it doesn't really take long.

The only thing that I use my flat bed scanner for is for really old photos which have been in the family for years and for which we have no negatives

Yes I have screw lens here to!!!

Help I wish I had listen to my dad

I cant even work the light meter!!! well unpack leather case and point at object to be photographed!!!


the momet old Ilford photo paper boxes are as good as shoe boxes! Rollo

Thank you all

These are 828s and 35 mm and and even some glass plates

put through a hasselblad of the 1960


I checked out how to scan to pc but it looks very time comsuming!!! more than one winters hobby!

Rollo,

I still have my old Chinon CE!! memotron SLR.The only reason that I purchased it back in 1975 was that it was one of the few cameras that would accept my Russian screw mount lenses.

I used to process my own slide film at the time, hence my rather large collection of slides

There are specialists who will scan odd film sizes eg 620 16mm 110 at reasonable cost.

I have one of the latest and greatest EOS digital cameras and various "lightweight" bridge and small cameras yet still find them soul less devices compared to my ancient cameras ( OM2n and Leica) which have been twice around the world and to war with me.

If digital was so wonderful why so many apps to make a digital photo look like one taken with 35mm or an old Rollei ?

"Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away "

"Time it was and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you"

Analog is for real.

A popular solution is simply to digitise the whole lot using a film scanner attached to the PC. Avoid SCSI based units and go for USB. They are ez to use and these days fairly cheap. For yr collection the whole lot will fit on a few DVDs depending on the resolution you choose. Once scanned backups and copies are very easy. Do not try and scan negs and transparencies using a flat bed scanner it will drive you nuts.

Once scanned you can of course embark on the popular winter time hobby of photoshop deleting people, removing evidence of smoking, adding in people, removing weight, adding rank, removing fingers on lens, removing red eye, fixing focussing problems, fixing tilted horizontals after one glass too many, sending old photos to twitter and so on.

As to the originals ... keep them dry, away from mould and direct sunlight. Shoe boxes are popular.

Kemp,

I've scanned my slides to PC and copied them to an external hard drive for a back up.

I've got to get started on the negatives with a slight problem that some of them are 16mm format which my scanner can't do. However, the vast majority are 35mm so no problems.

Allan

How do I store

1,000 slides
200 wallets of negatives and the photos that go with!

How do you people store all these things ?

Thank you