@piggo@jeder >who fucking cares to look at these old pictures They can become really interesting as time passes, at least I was fascinated by many pictures from my late grandpa's photo album (physical)
@eal@jeder yeah I suppose. I also scanned some really old correspondence, including some great grandparents who were in a nazi concentration camp. could be interesting for research, but ... who has the time to go through that
@eal@piggo i am quite interested in photos from 1970-1995 era but there's not really much of them in Poland(and at least of my city, however there was that one guy that did work as photo reporter and published many of his photos nowadays) since iirc you had to be a photo reporter to even have a camera because Reasons
@jeder my grandfather had a ton of Dias. We never came around digitalise them, but with a SLR already there such a setup would make the process way faster (especially a Día scanner is very expensive, one time use and there aren't many places to rent such a device anymore)
@jeder it probably is. But for that one time going through like some Dias for 50€ it's okay. And you can easily resell it on eBay or something, so the loss isn't too high.
Scanners are the easiest and fastest way because they do the same thing just automated and faster. Feed them a frame and you get the pictures saved on an SD card or directly onto your computer. But as mentioned, they where very expensive. Haven't checked in years...
A colleague asked me once if I have an idea how to digitalise Dias, and becak then they all where 1.000€+. But a local photograph shop had a scanner you could rent for a weekend for like 50€ or so. And he told me how it worked (and it was basically the fastest possible way)