Because “Ok Boomer” is an insult used by to so-called “woke” millennials. It is on par with Cracker and N***** because it is targeting a specific group. As such it needs to go away.
Boomers have been complaining about millennials in a derogatory fashion for the last 10 years. Now that the tables are turning, boomers are getting their panties in a wad.
You’re nuts if you think it’s on par with either of those slurs.
@capecodcaper@Mehrocco_Mole@mike808@Sevylor7 Not as bad as a racial slur. Stop buying your christmas presents from meh and get gifts that show you are woke and you’ll have nothing to worry bout.
@Mehrocco_Mole It’s embarrassingly childish enough that I’m surprised if anybody’s still invoking the meme earnestly. It’s got to burn itself out fast on an individual level…
Anyways, it’s mostly a dismissive insult about generational gaps in perspective – much more “You’re so out of touch that you don’t understand how badly you’re missing the point,” and, “I give up attempting to communicate with you, because I am exhausted.” Don’t think I’ve seen anything about wokeness in there, or even hatred, when I’ve come across it. Was more economy, climate, that kind of thing… Then again, I avoid Twitter like it’s a plague.
Twitter’s a bad place. Some big chunk of people aren’t the right combination of mature and, maybe, mindful or something, to avoid getting wound up by it, and then they all get sucked into the snowball of pettiness. You can’t go there without seeing a bunch of people being small minded and pathetically, dickishly, uncommunicative.
I’m always weary as hell of these sorts of things being sold at a discount, as it says to me they prolly ain’t moving otherwise, which means the company prolly ain’t doing too well, which in turn means the time until this item, which requires the company to still be in business to have any value at all, becomes a fancy bit of useless landfill is limited at best.
Today’s homework: separate that out into more than one sentence.
@coblebaby@rpstrong@shahnm
If you get the ScanCafe.com offer (extended for CyberMonday), you only need to estimate. The 25% discount is applied to your order, whatever you send in and whatever tier you fall into. The purchase today “locks in” your discount, and is treated like a deposit towards the final charges since it is per scan.
Also, ScanCafe will take photos and slides and 35mm negatives in their Value Box.
The specs mentioned BetaMax. I had forgotten there was such a thing. Now am wondering where mine is, along with all the cassettes I made a long time ago. Superior HiFi stereo sound and decent video, at least for that time. Back in the 80’s, I did several years running of recording the old Year’s Top 100 music videos from MTV that they did every New Year’s Eve, or day, or week, or whenever it was. Lost a lot of sleep, but the end results were great for background music, with accompanying videos.
Of course, nowadays, there is YouTube, but then you get ads, and have to search out the tunes.
And now I remember that I made some party tapes, essentially just mix tapes, that were solely audio from my records and CD collections, on the BetaMax. Cheaper than regular audio tapes and easier to play back for specific songs, if you had them indexed. Up to 5 hours continuous music!
The BetaMax’s were so well engineered that if I can locate it, I bet it would still work. (Too bad Sony corporate wasn’t as good as their engineers. They pissed me off so many times I finally quit buying their products – Sony Dash, anyone? Or Sony PSP, a great potential handheld computer that Sony totally locked down against improvisations (hacking)? Or their crappy DRM policies, especially on movie DVDs.)
@phendrick VHS also had a hifi stereo option. I recorded cd’s on vhs tapes. I had a hi quality machine at the time with input adjustments & meters. Better sound quality than reel to reel.
@bleedmichigan Mediocrebot used to auto-post a tag to the current scapegoat whenever the word scapegoat was mentioned in a post. It no longer does that, or perhaps you might need to hit up @narfcake to get that turned on for you. Not sure if you wanted your mailbox to blow up or they decided to use lube this month since you’re a newb to Meh goat culture.
@yakkoTDI Seriously though, does this include the output in the price, or do we have to pay an extra $20 for “digital download” or “thumb drive”, like you do on their website?
If anyone has just photos, ScanCafe.com has a today-only deal (Dec 1, til midnight PST) on their “Value Pack”.
The comparable package size to “40 packs of 25 photos” or 1000 photos is currently $217.40, vs $450 for this deal. They do other media too, this is the BF deal. They have other deals during the year too. Sign up to their mailing list for those.
I would also trust ScanCafe. They specialize in high-quality media digitization, and even have hand-curated restoration services for damaged or aged negatives. They even color correct for aging/fade.
Very high resolution TIFF scans are available as well, and they have cloud access to download your digital images if you don’t want a thumb drive or DVDs.
Half the price of this deal and IMHO, a better company.
@narfcake Anyone else remember the RCA Sound Tape Cartridge, or Sony’s Elcaset? Neither caught on. (though to be fair, one was ahead of its time, and the other was never marketed towards consumers)
Yeah sure, I’ll trust priceless and non-replaceable family mementos and records into the hands of complete strangers over the Internet, as well as the US Postal System both ways
@jmbunkin Wondering that also. I have 4 or 5 large 8mm reels. Maybe 3 small. It would save me money to splice them all into one huge reel? lol
I still have a edit/splicer.
@jmbunkin From their FAQs:
“We count the number of items, regardless of how big, small, long, or short the item is. A tape that has 5 hours of content is counted the same as one that has 5 minutes.”
While we convert 8mm, super 8, and 16mm of various sizes, unfortunately, it is not part of our process to digitize sound on film.
In our experience, 99% of film was recorded as silent. In rare instances, 8mm and Super 8 film may contain magnetic audio lines and 16mm film may contain magnetic, but more commonly optical, sound lines. Of this small percentage of film reels that do have a sound line, an even a smaller percentage of these used the proper recording equipment required to capture both the sound and picture.
Because these instances are so rare, and to ensure we’re providing the highest quality transfers, it is not part of our process to digitize the sound on film, when present. If you’d like any more information about this, contact our customer service team!
So, I send my 512gb thumb drive of photos going back to the 1930’s and they send back a 512gb thumb drive with my digitized images, well, digitized? I see the pure goodness in this and my heart all but stops at the sheer kindness involved. However, I must decline though it pains me to do so. I wish you the very best. Now, I shall retreat under my weighted blanket and marvel at this offering. I hope I can sleep.
i would want to know if they just stick whatever you give them into their recording devices and hit record and send you whatever comes out or if they watch everything and ya know make sure its all legal…
@sp3ar They claim that “All formats are carefully digitized by hand, right here in the United States”.
There must be some sort of worthless pun hidden in “digitized by hand” - like maybe when they get it right, they NAIL(!) it - but it isn’t worth looking for.
They did a spectacular job scanning hundreds of my parents slides from the 60s and 70s. I posted one of them here a while back (2yo me with my grandfather on a tractor). I authorized them to do restoration, since I had no idea what shape they were in, and they only needed to do it on one slide that was water damaged and they fixed it. And they scan them in high resolution so you can get them blown up to 16x20 if you want to.
@rpstrong@thechinglish I’ve sent ScanCafe hundreds of slides in the straight racks and they didn’t have any issues. I can see where the round carousels could be an issue just from a processing/bulk standpoint.
After my Mom died last Jan my sister back in Jersey used a guy in Jersey to convert a lot of my Dads (passed in 68) movie reels into digital…us kids and all. It really came out nice if you want the guys name PM me.
I’ve used these guys about a year ago and everything turned out nicely. We had some 8mm film converted to VHS many years ago by a different company. Good thing we saved the film as the VHS didn’t hold up as well (could be scanning tech is much better these days too). One odd thing is they sent physical media instead of a digital copy for one of my requests, I complained and they rescanned it for free. I would use them again.
My sisters and I have been using this service for a few years now. Every birthday and holiday, we get some film converted as gifts for my parents. It’s been wonderful! We have only experienced good service from LegacyBox!
@kirsch@mike808 Go to whatever print shop is next to whatever university you live next to and assuming the print shop makes course packs you should be able to get them to bulk scan for cheap
I’d like to believe something like this would work for digitizing all my dad’s old slides, but I don’t see how it would be feasible even at this price point.
I have a slide scanner, and scanning them is tedious, but I have found the other work is even more tedious. The scans never turn out well unless I clean the slides well beforehand. I also find manual cropping work and color correction is usually needed.
I don’t see any company putting the care into the process that would be desired from my family’s standpoint.
I’ve been using VueScan to do most of the work with my scanner. It works, but takes a LONG time to make any real progress on the boxes of old slides.
I am by no means well educated on photography or restoration, and maybe the slides I have are just much filthier than most after having been in a couple of basements for over 40 years.
I just grabbed one slide out at random from the Vietnam box and scanned it without doing anything to it at all. Here is the result (my dad is the one on the right looking at the camera):
If I clean it with a couple of drops of water and a lint free cloth, then run a few passes with some color correction, I can get the following:
These are both scaled down a lot, but I’d be concerned I would get something like the dirty one from this service and I know my family members would prefer something closer to the second.
@zachdeckerScanCafe.com applies color correction for the age and brand of slide film. They also include a couple of minutes per slide for hand correction/cleanup. They also air clean the slides and use professional slide scanners with IR dust removal if there us any left.
I tried scanning myself as well (and VueScan is definitely the right program too) but found the ICC color profile correction and manual cropping just tok much hassle. I couldn’t do it myself for anywhere close to 22¢/scan.
Pulled the trigger, and it cost me, but worth it in the end to let a pro do it.
@mike808 Thanks for the information! I read a lot of the FAQ for legacy, and was not reassured.
I’ll check out ScanCafe and see if it is more of what I’d be looking for.
@medz I agree. I’d probably play with the color adjustments some more for a copy I’d keep. Mainly I just wanted to highlight the cleaning and the fact that some form of color correction is needed. I’d hate to pay a bunch of money to get something that looks dirty and washed out.
Ah yes, better send my irreplaceable photos away since nothing has ever been destroyed in transit.
So, uh… How discreet are they?
@medz
@medz Ah, some “romantic videos” with the spouse, huh? (wink, wink; nudge, nudge)
@medz @phendrick no, just some old porn to leave to your kids (which they’ll really appreciate)
@medz @phendrick @robson Yeah, because it’s so hard to find any porn these days!
@Kyser_Soze they don’t make 'em like they used to, though
I am here again wearing my Members Only jacket because it’s only 82 degrees in my den. I just wanted to say fuck you guys making fun of us boomers.
@Sevylor7 What got your slanket all in a bunch?
@Sevylor7 ok boomer
@mike808 My antenna went out so I missed the Gene Barry Match Game reruns today.
@mike808 @Sevylor7 @capecodcaper
Because “Ok Boomer” is an insult used by to so-called “woke” millennials. It is on par with Cracker and N***** because it is targeting a specific group. As such it needs to go away.
@Mehrocco_Mole
Boomers have been complaining about millennials in a derogatory fashion for the last 10 years. Now that the tables are turning, boomers are getting their panties in a wad.
You’re nuts if you think it’s on par with either of those slurs.
@Mehrocco_Mole, at worst, it is insultingly dismissive. It does not even approach the degradation of a racial slur.
@capecodcaper @Mehrocco_Mole @mike808 @Sevylor7 to paraphrase Mulaney, “if you’re comparing two words, and you won’t even say one of the words? That’s the worse word. “
@capecodcaper @Mehrocco_Mole @mike808 @Sevylor7 just about all insults target a group, do you believe all insults are equally bad?
@capecodcaper @Mehrocco_Mole @mike808 @Sevylor7 Not as bad as a racial slur. Stop buying your christmas presents from meh and get gifts that show you are woke and you’ll have nothing to worry bout.
@Mehrocco_Mole It’s embarrassingly childish enough that I’m surprised if anybody’s still invoking the meme earnestly. It’s got to burn itself out fast on an individual level…
Anyways, it’s mostly a dismissive insult about generational gaps in perspective – much more “You’re so out of touch that you don’t understand how badly you’re missing the point,” and, “I give up attempting to communicate with you, because I am exhausted.” Don’t think I’ve seen anything about wokeness in there, or even hatred, when I’ve come across it. Was more economy, climate, that kind of thing… Then again, I avoid Twitter like it’s a plague.
Twitter’s a bad place. Some big chunk of people aren’t the right combination of mature and, maybe, mindful or something, to avoid getting wound up by it, and then they all get sucked into the snowball of pettiness. You can’t go there without seeing a bunch of people being small minded and pathetically, dickishly, uncommunicative.
Not worth worrying about, you ask me.
@mike808 @Sevylor7 It’ Gene Rayburn.
@mike808 @Trinityscrew Yea, remembered that after I posted. Gene Barry was a decent actor though.
@capecodcaper @Mehrocco_Mole @mike808 @Sevylor7 Herbert! Herbert!
I’m always weary as hell of these sorts of things being sold at a discount, as it says to me they prolly ain’t moving otherwise, which means the company prolly ain’t doing too well, which in turn means the time until this item, which requires the company to still be in business to have any value at all, becomes a fancy bit of useless landfill is limited at best.
Today’s homework: separate that out into more than one sentence.
@nogoodwithnames Welcome to Meh.com!
@nogoodwithnames So you’re saying if a store or service has a sale it means they are not doing well ? We are doomed
I would have seriously considered this, but I will not have time to count out the specific number of “items” I have before time will run out on it…
@shahnm Same. I love this deal and wish I could take advantage of it, but having to dig everything out on short notice just won’t happen today.
@coblebaby @shahnm According to the FAQs, you can “round down” but then add additional items for $15 each.
@coblebaby @rpstrong @shahnm
If you get the ScanCafe.com offer (extended for CyberMonday), you only need to estimate. The 25% discount is applied to your order, whatever you send in and whatever tier you fall into. The purchase today “locks in” your discount, and is treated like a deposit towards the final charges since it is per scan.
Also, ScanCafe will take photos and slides and 35mm negatives in their Value Box.
@mike808 That looks like a pretty sweet deal! Thanks for sharing it.
The specs mentioned BetaMax. I had forgotten there was such a thing. Now am wondering where mine is, along with all the cassettes I made a long time ago. Superior HiFi stereo sound and decent video, at least for that time. Back in the 80’s, I did several years running of recording the old Year’s Top 100 music videos from MTV that they did every New Year’s Eve, or day, or week, or whenever it was. Lost a lot of sleep, but the end results were great for background music, with accompanying videos.
Of course, nowadays, there is YouTube, but then you get ads, and have to search out the tunes.
And now I remember that I made some party tapes, essentially just mix tapes, that were solely audio from my records and CD collections, on the BetaMax. Cheaper than regular audio tapes and easier to play back for specific songs, if you had them indexed. Up to 5 hours continuous music!
The BetaMax’s were so well engineered that if I can locate it, I bet it would still work. (Too bad Sony corporate wasn’t as good as their engineers. They pissed me off so many times I finally quit buying their products – Sony Dash, anyone? Or Sony PSP, a great potential handheld computer that Sony totally locked down against improvisations (hacking)? Or their crappy DRM policies, especially on movie DVDs.)
@phendrick VHS also had a hifi stereo option. I recorded cd’s on vhs tapes. I had a hi quality machine at the time with input adjustments & meters. Better sound quality than reel to reel.
@phendrick Yep, Sony Dash here.
I read that someone’s rooted it so it can run normal Chumby, but I haven’t tried it.
STAY AWAY…HORRIBLE SERVICE
I last used them 2 years ago…They damaged my minidv tapes…the tapes that they didn’t damage were converted rather amateurishly…STAY AWAY
Just buy a scanner, and do it yourself.
Like the last handful of scanners I’ve bought, and still never done it myself.
@blaineg I think you know who is to blame here.
/blame scapegoat
Hmm. No blame tag or scapegoat mediocrebots.
Now that deserves some real blame.
More blame for @bleedmichigan
@mike808 oddly enough I mentioned the legacy box today in my post. If I become Meh Overlord I will look in to granting your request.
/giphy scapegoats
@bleedmichigan Mediocrebot used to auto-post a tag to the current scapegoat whenever the word scapegoat was mentioned in a post. It no longer does that, or perhaps you might need to hit up @narfcake to get that turned on for you. Not sure if you wanted your mailbox to blow up or they decided to use lube this month since you’re a newb to Meh goat culture.
@mike808 blow up the mailbox I don’t care that’s what filters are for.
@bleedmichigan @mike808 Alas, that’s not something that a Vol.Mod. could do.
/image cat mailbox
What will it convert my digits into?
@yakkoTDI It will convert your digits into matches which you can then use to burn your money if you buy this deal.
@yakkoTDI Seriously though, does this include the output in the price, or do we have to pay an extra $20 for “digital download” or “thumb drive”, like you do on their website?
Almost jumped on this with out reading it… thought it was something good…
If anyone has just photos, ScanCafe.com has a today-only deal (Dec 1, til midnight PST) on their “Value Pack”.
The comparable package size to “40 packs of 25 photos” or 1000 photos is currently $217.40, vs $450 for this deal. They do other media too, this is the BF deal. They have other deals during the year too. Sign up to their mailing list for those.
I would also trust ScanCafe. They specialize in high-quality media digitization, and even have hand-curated restoration services for damaged or aged negatives. They even color correct for aging/fade.
Very high resolution TIFF scans are available as well, and they have cloud access to download your digital images if you don’t want a thumb drive or DVDs.
Half the price of this deal and IMHO, a better company.
https://www.scancafe.com/coupons
This deal has been extended. See the posting in the December Deals topic for details.
Basically 1/2 the price of LegacyBox and 600dpi photo scans with 3000dpi film scans.
Under ‘Audio’, it lists ‘audio cassette’, ‘cassette tape’, and ‘compact cassette’. All three of those things are the same.
@PooltoyWolf They were also called “Musicassette”.
Back in the 90s, there was also the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC). It didn’t survive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
@PooltoyWolf Not same, different numbers of letters.
@narfcake Anyone else remember the RCA Sound Tape Cartridge, or Sony’s Elcaset? Neither caught on. (though to be fair, one was ahead of its time, and the other was never marketed towards consumers)
Wow price
Who cares about the past. Future all the way. #future
@gwaki are you 12?..
Didn’t see Boomer anywhere in the write up…
/giphy boomer
/giphy ok boomer
Yeah sure, I’ll trust priceless and non-replaceable family mementos and records into the hands of complete strangers over the Internet, as well as the US Postal System both ways
@pat4ever Actually, they use UPS.
@pat4ever Just be sure to make back-up copies before you send the originals.
@rpstrong I see what you did there!
3 8MM films,if you have 6-8 small reels spliced on to 1 reel is that considered to be 1 film ?
@jmbunkin Wondering that also. I have 4 or 5 large 8mm reels. Maybe 3 small. It would save me money to splice them all into one huge reel? lol
I still have a edit/splicer.
@daveinwarsh @jmbunkin I’m assuming they’re counting reels.
/giphy 8mm
@jmbunkin From their FAQs:
“We count the number of items, regardless of how big, small, long, or short the item is. A tape that has 5 hours of content is counted the same as one that has 5 minutes.”
It’s only $399 @ Groupon and Select members get up to 25% off. Making it $299 for a 40 item trunk.
@Woody1 They’ve got a cyber Monday sale now, two items and a jump drive for $30, 10 for $124.
Is audio included in the transfer from Super 8? Can’t find an answer on their site…
@potestasx If it’s a part of the original media, I’d assume it would be included rather than stripped away.
@potestasx i thought I just read if you have “film” with audio they don’t record it
https://legacybox.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions
While we convert 8mm, super 8, and 16mm of various sizes, unfortunately, it is not part of our process to digitize sound on film.
In our experience, 99% of film was recorded as silent. In rare instances, 8mm and Super 8 film may contain magnetic audio lines and 16mm film may contain magnetic, but more commonly optical, sound lines. Of this small percentage of film reels that do have a sound line, an even a smaller percentage of these used the proper recording equipment required to capture both the sound and picture.
Because these instances are so rare, and to ensure we’re providing the highest quality transfers, it is not part of our process to digitize the sound on film, when present. If you’d like any more information about this, contact our customer service team!
@sp3ar Thanks! Dealbreaker, unfortunately
. I didn’t realize they had an FAQ page. This was what I found before. No mention either way: https://legacybox.com/blogs/analog/does-my-film-reel-have-sound
Perfect for the hoarder in your life!
Does it do 3d modeling of sculptures?
So, I send my 512gb thumb drive of photos going back to the 1930’s and they send back a 512gb thumb drive with my digitized images, well, digitized? I see the pure goodness in this and my heart all but stops at the sheer kindness involved. However, I must decline though it pains me to do so. I wish you the very best. Now, I shall retreat under my weighted blanket and marvel at this offering. I hope I can sleep.
i would want to know if they just stick whatever you give them into their recording devices and hit record and send you whatever comes out or if they watch everything and ya know make sure its all legal…
/giphy ummm
@sp3ar
@sp3ar They claim that “All formats are carefully digitized by hand, right here in the United States”.
There must be some sort of worthless pun hidden in “digitized by hand” - like maybe when they get it right, they NAIL(!) it - but it isn’t worth looking for.
Wow! Meh’s price is better than Rush’s discount and Cyber Monday sales.
Do you get the originals back?
@eonfifty I was looking for an answer to that as well, but I would have to assume yes, the original media is returned.
@eonfifty Yes.
https://legacybox.com/pages/how-it-works
Does a 100 slide carousel count as 1 item or 101?
@thechinglish Check scancafe.com. They count slides, period.
They did a spectacular job scanning hundreds of my parents slides from the 60s and 70s. I posted one of them here a while back (2yo me with my grandfather on a tractor). I authorized them to do restoration, since I had no idea what shape they were in, and they only needed to do it on one slide that was water damaged and they fixed it. And they scan them in high resolution so you can get them blown up to 16x20 if you want to.
@thechinglish They do not accept carousels, albums, sleeves, etc. - only loose loose slides (up to 25) in an envelope.
@rpstrong @thechinglish I’ve sent ScanCafe hundreds of slides in the straight racks and they didn’t have any issues. I can see where the round carousels could be an issue just from a processing/bulk standpoint.
Are you talking ScanCafe or LegacyBox?
@mike808 @thechinglish My reply was directed to @thechinglish who I assumed was asking about LegacyBox.
I have 42 daguerreotype processes images… how many 8mm can these be transferred to in a fixed viewer format?
After my Mom died last Jan my sister back in Jersey used a guy in Jersey to convert a lot of my Dads (passed in 68) movie reels into digital…us kids and all. It really came out nice if you want the guys name PM me.
@fastharrydotcom Thank you for the contact information. I will reach out to him.Much appreciated.Dave
I’ve used these guys about a year ago and everything turned out nicely. We had some 8mm film converted to VHS many years ago by a different company. Good thing we saved the film as the VHS didn’t hold up as well (could be scanning tech is much better these days too). One odd thing is they sent physical media instead of a digital copy for one of my requests, I complained and they rescanned it for free. I would use them again.
Specs
*** ACCEPTED FORMATS ***
What’s in the Box?
3 Item Legacy Box
OR
10 Item Legacy Box
OR
20 Item Legacy Box
OR
40 Item Legacy Box
Price Comparison
$449.99 (for 40 Item Bundle) at Groupon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
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or go to a garage sale…pick up a VHS player for 5 bucks…and come home and enjoy your memories
@fastharrydotcom If you find a VHS player that works for $5 buy it,they are very hard to find.
@fastharrydotcom I tried that.
My 8mm film kept getting all jammed up.
If NASA’d had one of these we could go back to the moon.
@Bevvie “back” to the moon…yeah…that’s the ticket.
My sisters and I have been using this service for a few years now. Every birthday and holiday, we get some film converted as gifts for my parents. It’s been wonderful! We have only experienced good service from LegacyBox!
At $0.31 per scanned photo in the best case, this seems like a really bad deal.
Wake me up when cost is 10 cents per photo for bulk scanning.
@kirsch ScanCafe runs 23¢ to 16¢ per scan at 25% off. I doubt youll find lower for a professional job.
@kirsch @mike808 Go to whatever print shop is next to whatever university you live next to and assuming the print shop makes course packs you should be able to get them to bulk scan for cheap
@kirsch thank you for doing the math.
I’d like to believe something like this would work for digitizing all my dad’s old slides, but I don’t see how it would be feasible even at this price point.
I have a slide scanner, and scanning them is tedious, but I have found the other work is even more tedious. The scans never turn out well unless I clean the slides well beforehand. I also find manual cropping work and color correction is usually needed.
I don’t see any company putting the care into the process that would be desired from my family’s standpoint.
I’ve been using VueScan to do most of the work with my scanner. It works, but takes a LONG time to make any real progress on the boxes of old slides.
I am by no means well educated on photography or restoration, and maybe the slides I have are just much filthier than most after having been in a couple of basements for over 40 years.
I just grabbed one slide out at random from the Vietnam box and scanned it without doing anything to it at all. Here is the result (my dad is the one on the right looking at the camera):
If I clean it with a couple of drops of water and a lint free cloth, then run a few passes with some color correction, I can get the following:
These are both scaled down a lot, but I’d be concerned I would get something like the dirty one from this service and I know my family members would prefer something closer to the second.
@zachdecker ScanCafe.com applies color correction for the age and brand of slide film. They also include a couple of minutes per slide for hand correction/cleanup. They also air clean the slides and use professional slide scanners with IR dust removal if there us any left.
I tried scanning myself as well (and VueScan is definitely the right program too) but found the ICC color profile correction and manual cropping just tok much hassle. I couldn’t do it myself for anywhere close to 22¢/scan.
Pulled the trigger, and it cost me, but worth it in the end to let a pro do it.
@mike808 Thanks for the information! I read a lot of the FAQ for legacy, and was not reassured.
I’ll check out ScanCafe and see if it is more of what I’d be looking for.
@zachdecker Here’s a slide from the mid 60s scanned ~50 years later.
@mike808 @zachdecker Your Dad was on American Pickers 50 years ago Mike?
@therealjrn @zachdecker That’s me and my grandfather riding on the tractor. Circa '68 or so.
@zachdecker All those guys look sun burnt in the 2nd one.
@medz I agree. I’d probably play with the color adjustments some more for a copy I’d keep. Mainly I just wanted to highlight the cleaning and the fact that some form of color correction is needed. I’d hate to pay a bunch of money to get something that looks dirty and washed out.
@medz @zachdecker VueScan Pro has the ICC profiles for the different brands of slide and film.
Where is the order number? I can’t activate and can’t find it anywhere in what they sent me.
@cjlacava I have the same issue! Activation code is included in the package, but no order number so there is no way to activate online.
@cjlacava @queequeg Isn’t your order number that three word code?
@cjlacava @sammydog01 Nope, I tried that. Said “Order number not valid”
@cjlacava @queequeg @sammydog01 I guess the only thing to do is contact Meh’s Customer Service, meh.com/support
They should know what to do.
@cjlacava Legacybox responded this morning: Your order number is the first set of numbers before the dash (-) on each of your barcode stickers.
I figured it out: the order number is on the return shipping sticker under the QR code.