Last year in the fall KT got a call from a long time friend who lives in New Jersey. My friend is now 89 years old, and his wife, a few years younger than him has Alzheimer's disease, and he has had to put her in a Nursing Home, so he decided to go with her. One of the problems he called me about was that he had a collection of 35mm slides that he had taken over 25 years of trips to Arkansas to go with a group of mineral collectors, and since KT is the youngest surviving member of that group at 76, he wanted to know if His Majesty wanted this slide collection. KT said yes, and since His Majesty has a slide to digital image converter, He promised He would convert all the slides worth keeping into digital images.
A month later a box measuring 2 ft long by 1.5 ft by 1.5 ft, arrived at the Royal Castle by UPS! When KT opened it, it contained about 1800 35mm slides in various containers! Needless to say, KT ruminated on this project for several months before finally starting it earlier this year. KT found his slide converter and got Prince John to locate the installation software from the internet as the original installation disk was misplaced years ago.
Then KT started by purchasing a magnifying 2X slide viewer and went through the slides looking at them....about 25% were thrown away due to being badly overexposed, underexposed, or out of focus. That filled a small trash can by KT's Royal Desk! But that initial phase had to be done, before starting to scan the slides.
Then the scanning phase of the project began. Kt likens this to eating an elephant, one does it a few bites at a time, and then gets up and walks away! HA HA About 1 hour at a time is all His Majesty can handle in a session. KT has been working on this project now for a couple of months, and it already feels like several more months! As the slides are scanned, KT uses digital software to crop the images if needed, correct the colors and saturation if needed, sharpen the focus, and save them. Then each image has its own title, with peoples names, location, date, and photographer's initials, i.e. the best documentation that can be done. KT thinks he is now about 70% finished with it. Then the digital images are filed away.
The final product will be a file holding file folders of the images by locations, documenting all the activities of the group over many years, mostly from KT's friend's perspective. There will be a few collectors who will want this photographic data, which they will receive via a Thumbdrive. And the slides themselves, along with 2 sets of the digital images will be given to the Office of State Geologist, the former Arkansas Geological Survey, which archives such data.
The pictures you see below show the equipment, the scanned slides as of this date, and that which remains to be done to complete the scanning portion of the project.
Enjoy the pictures!
A month later a box measuring 2 ft long by 1.5 ft by 1.5 ft, arrived at the Royal Castle by UPS! When KT opened it, it contained about 1800 35mm slides in various containers! Needless to say, KT ruminated on this project for several months before finally starting it earlier this year. KT found his slide converter and got Prince John to locate the installation software from the internet as the original installation disk was misplaced years ago.
Then KT started by purchasing a magnifying 2X slide viewer and went through the slides looking at them....about 25% were thrown away due to being badly overexposed, underexposed, or out of focus. That filled a small trash can by KT's Royal Desk! But that initial phase had to be done, before starting to scan the slides.
Then the scanning phase of the project began. Kt likens this to eating an elephant, one does it a few bites at a time, and then gets up and walks away! HA HA About 1 hour at a time is all His Majesty can handle in a session. KT has been working on this project now for a couple of months, and it already feels like several more months! As the slides are scanned, KT uses digital software to crop the images if needed, correct the colors and saturation if needed, sharpen the focus, and save them. Then each image has its own title, with peoples names, location, date, and photographer's initials, i.e. the best documentation that can be done. KT thinks he is now about 70% finished with it. Then the digital images are filed away.
The final product will be a file holding file folders of the images by locations, documenting all the activities of the group over many years, mostly from KT's friend's perspective. There will be a few collectors who will want this photographic data, which they will receive via a Thumbdrive. And the slides themselves, along with 2 sets of the digital images will be given to the Office of State Geologist, the former Arkansas Geological Survey, which archives such data.
The pictures you see below show the equipment, the scanned slides as of this date, and that which remains to be done to complete the scanning portion of the project.
Enjoy the pictures!
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