A flurry of installing software and swearing at the tangle of cables under the desk as you work out which plug can be safely unplugged in order to plug in the scanner then follows.
At last I have access to all the photos I've taken over the years! Of course I've always had access, sort of, but in order to make any use of them, and also in order to be able to give copies to the kids, I needed them in digital format. Since the age of about 14 until we got the digital camera about 4 years ago, I've taken 35mm colour slides. There are hundreds of the things sitting in boxes. I suppose I could have had prints made, but that's expensive, but I can now happily work my way through them and burn them to CD.
I need to play around with the settings a bit more to get the colours and brightness right, and these pictures are reduced in size and resolution, for putting on the web. But I think with a bit of experimentation, I will have a workable system.
The geeky looking girl is, of course, me. The hall is Heaton Hall in Heaton Park in Manchester. Photos taken in 1967.
