Re: PING: William Graham One thing I forgot to tell you is that you should make sure your computer
has lots of volatile memory (RAM) before you try to do this.....I had 250
megs, and it was taking me forever, so I investigated upgrading my memory,
and I added another 500 megs for about $75. It was the best buy time-wise
that I ever made....It made a world of difference, both in
scanning/processing, and in boot-up time.
If I had 30,000 slides, I would try to find a machine with an automatic
feeder, so I wouldn't have to hand feed and process each slide.....For that
kind of volume, you might be better off finding a needy teenager that needs
a part time job, and teach them to scan slides for you. Perhaps you could
just do the triage work, and then let them do the actual scanning of what
you select. Even this takes time.....I had to build a light box that I could
view my slides against....The little ones that were available were too
small, because I wanted to use a viewer, which blew the image up to where I
could see if it had a cropable image trapped in it somewhere.....IOW,
looking at a dozen or so of them at one time just wasn't cutting it. I built
one that was 18" square, by about 6" deep, and put out lots of light....I
installed 8, 60 watt bulbs in it. Except I used these little spiral wound
fluorescents that only draw 13 watts each, but put out the equivalent of a
60 watt incandescent bulb. I set it on the table about 3 feet in front of
me, and it puts out a tremendous square of light that is almost equivalent
to being outside, looking at the sun directly.
William Graham
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