I had my father over for dinner last night, he brought 3,400 slides with him. They start in 1964 and end in 1994, pretty much all family stuff. I think most of them were shot with a Yashica Lynx 5000 followed by a Minolta srTsc II. Since my mother past away a few years ago my father has been slowly clearing stuff from the house that he has lived in for over 50 years. One of those situations where they didn't throw anything away. I told him I would go through them and give them a new home. I also have his old slide projector to view them with since it's set up for the round slide carousels. It's a Sawyers Crestline Deluxe projector that we viewed these slides with since my childhood. I know it well, he used to let me operate it.
I'll probably scan some of the slides as I go through them. He already scanned several of them a while back but I think I can do better. He used a service through Costco several years ago that was mediocre back then. As I go through them I will transfer the information for each slide to a sheet that can be stored with them. Right now everything is writen on the boxes for the carousels. I bought a few Logan slide files that each hold 750 slides. I figure that is the most compact way to store them going forward. I'll keep a few of the round carousels to go with the projector but will likely get rid of the rest of them. Anyone need slide carousels that hold 100 slides each? They work with Sawyers, Keystone, Nikon, GAF, Argus, Minolta, Haminex, Anscomatic, Focal and several re-branded projectors.
I'm looking forward to this since I haven't seen most of these in a very long time. I'll take my time so it doesn't seem like a major chore. Maybe I'll post a few shots here to prove that I once had hair on top of my head.