On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 10:02:58 AM UTC-5, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2021-02-19 23:43, RichA wrote:
On Friday, 19 February 2021 at 08:32:47 UTC-5, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2021-02-17 16:34, -hh wrote:
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Get a light table and magnifier or projector so you can vet the junk from the quality first.
Avoiding scanning stuff not worth scanning is a good idea.

I did forget to put that in. It's such a habit with me to not scan
crud, that I assume everyone is the same.

A fair enough statement.

A light table requires the original to be a transparently of some sort, and
while it can be used with really dirty slides/etc, it doesn’t eliminate the need
to clean before proceeding.

A pro photog I know has a program to very rapidly go through his digital
take.. He can 'reject' a 100 photos per minute - and that program
completely erases them as if it never happened.

Working with legacy analog stuff hasn’t made it to digital yet ... plus it also
has the dilemma that it’s originator had kept it for some reason, even if it’s
not yet (if ever) known why.

-hh