Photos
Overview
In the span of a lifetime, people now take a lot of pictures. Unfortunately, most of them wind up sitting in boxes and rarely looked at. Computers help with that but, unless careful, become just an electrical replacement for the boxes.
We have pictures from a number of sources; some going back more than 100 years. The sources include old family photos, slides that my dad took and ones that I did. We went digital in 2000 when I picked up a Sony Cybershot in St. Thomas on a cruise.
While we started out taking slides, we changed over to film at some point. Bonita did a good job getting them organized and filed. Those photos have been scanned and are in the FastFolio directory.
Locations
Digital photos are in Media-Archive/photos-original. I do not assume that this is a complete set. There have been a lot of downloads from cameras and phones over time.
The Inateck drive (currently mounted as K:) has about the best collection at this point.
Plan
- Work in the Mylio tool to import and categorize the photo library.
- Bring the photos in from various sources, dedup and load into Mylio
- Scan slides and load into Mylio
The slide scanning can happen concurrent with other tasks.
Workflow...First cut
Paper photos
Scanning photos is easy and straightforward. The Epson photo scanner will scan the front and back of pictures in batches. Initially organize them by date. Larger format photos will need to be scanned on the flatbed. Same plan...scan, store by date and then come back and decide what to do with them. For now, the photos will be stored in a high-quality/low loss format like tiff. This will expand out the storage space requirement, but disk drives are cheap.
Slides
Scanning slides is a little more time consuming since they cannot be done in batches. The Plustek scanner will scan slides and negative film strips. The slides come from the high tech storage site... the box under the sink. Most of the slides are still in boxes although some of them are basically loose. What I want to do is scan a group together and then file them into sleeves rather than putting them back into boxes. The slides should be names according to sheet/slide location on the sheet. After finishing a sheet, scan it to capture any notations on the slides.
Filing and Organizing
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