Comments on: A Very Special Gift for My Grandmother

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:08:47 +0000

sounds like a wonderful thing you did,
congradulations.

If your granny ever wants to see more photos from the 40s or 50s.

By: One Frugal Girl

One Frugal Girl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:23:41 +0000

So I finally found the link to the PDF I used to setup my scanner.
I scan at a minimum of 600dpi. I use the Epson Perfection 4180 Photo scanner. These instructions are specific to the scanner I use, but I bet they are similar to any of the flatbeds.

By: One Frugal Girl

One Frugal Girl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:41:28 +0000

I'll blog about this tomorrow. I'm not in front of my scanner right now, but I'll see if I can document the steps myself or find a PDF that includes the necessary details. My scanning process is unbelievably painful and slow with my scanner but I'd be happy to share the info.

By: 2million

2million — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:16:33 +0000

What kind of device do you use to be able to scan your slides on a flatbed scanner?

By: Mrs. Accountability

Mrs. Accountability — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:26:21 +0000

Wow. And here I sit with a gallon ziploc bag with maybe fifty photos that belonged to my Grandma, that my mom keeps asking for me to give back to her. I want to scan them first! I should be ashamed of myself, since it won't take me near as long as it takes for the slides. This is such a wonderful gift for your grandma and an amazing legacy for the rest of the family!! And I don't think it's too soon to start thinking about Christmas gifts when they are handmade or scanning photos!! Would you consider creating a post on how you scan the slides (and photos)? That is one thing that has held me back because I wasn't too excited about the quality of the photos I scanned. I set my program to color and 600dpi, do you think that's as good as I can get? 600dpi is the highest my scanner will get. Thanks.

By: One Frugal Girl

One Frugal Girl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:46:20 +0000

Thank you for all of the kind comments. You can't imagine how much this gift meant to my grandmother and I am absolutely elated to provide her with a new set of photographs this year.

@sense - I'm actually using a flatbed scanner to convert the photographs. The problem with this approach is that I can only convert 4 slides at a time and each slide takes at least 8 minutes to convert, which means I'm pretty much living in the home office for hours and days on end. I'm considering buying a scanner that could convert more slides at once, but so far I'm not finding much luck finding one within a reasonable price range.

By: Sense

Sense — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:04:02 +0000

That is such a meaningful gift! You are a very thoughtful person. :)

my grandma and grandpa also used to show us slides--of my mom and her brothers and sister when they were young! They have since died and I have no idea what happened to those slides. I'd love to get my hands on them and digitize them like you are. How do you digitize projector slides, though??

By: me in millions

me in millions — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:53:02 +0000

That is so sweet and thoughtful. We have boxes of old slides in my parents basement that we never got around to doing that with before my grandpa died. I really regret that.

By: Dan E

Dan E — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:23:14 +0000

to make sure you hit your christmas deadline you may want to check out scancafe.com

Good luck

By: Vanessa (Last Night's Leftovers)

Vanessa (Last Night's Leftovers) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:17:52 +0000

Make that sweetest post I've ever *read* – sorry, it is late 😛