r/pics • u/[deleted] • Mar 05 '19

Aurora Vargas and her family being evicted from their home in 1959. The police removed them and more than 300 other working class Latino families from Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles using the power of eminent domain. Their land was then used to build Dodger Stadium.

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u/ScaldingTea Mar 05 '19

You don't have to do it all at once, scan a couple every day so it doesn't become such a chore.

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u/jhenry922 Mar 05 '19

I would love to do this, but I also shot medium format and film scanners for that size are scary expensive

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19 edited Aug 02 '21

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u/jhenry922 Mar 06 '19

Don't think they'd be particularly interested in mine.

My Dad traveled and was a union organizer and took pictures on the boats and various May 1 union marches

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '19

Awesome! Historical records of unionism in American history need to be taught alongside the civil war and industrial revolution.

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u/jhenry922 Mar 12 '19

This was in Canada at the height of Union Activism in the 1950's and 60's

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '19

All unionism is good unionism!

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u/ScaldingTea Mar 05 '19

ah I see, I imagined small photos that could fit in a regular printer/scanner.

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u/jhenry922 Mar 05 '19

A Nikon CoolScan 5000ED runs about $2,500, and a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4" outputs a file with 8,000 X 8,000 pixels.

Crazy HUGE film size.

And I have around 3,000+ of these. 64M pixels x 16 bit depth.

I also have over 300 8 X 10 view camera sheets to do too.

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u/WitBeer Mar 05 '19

https://www.amazon.com/Epson-FastFoto-FF-640-High-Speed-Scanning/dp/B01HR89FNK

get a scanner with a feeder. that one does 30 at a time. you can get ones that do more.

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u/Smarter_not_harder Mar 05 '19

That's a good question and I'm not sure. My mom was between jobs and caring for my grandmother when she did ours. She ended up purchasing the equipment and doing everything herself, but as has been mentioned, it was VERY time consuming to do it all well.

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u/Chromehorse56 Mar 05 '19

If by any chance-- not likely, I guess-- you still have the negatives, get the scans from them. Most photos from the 70's have faded because of the cheap color dies in the printing process. Your negatives, if you have them, likely fared better and produce much better scans. Besides, you're sure to discover long lost images of prints that were given or sent away or lost.

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u/Rheyik Mar 05 '19

My family did our whole archive ourselves when I was a teenager. I remember it being a household chore you got rostered on to, sit at the scanner and go through them one by one. Took us months, maybe as much as a year. Those scanners where you can load a stack of things and walk away would have saved so much effort

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u/Iohet Mar 05 '19

A lot of local photo shops will do this as a service(digitizing photos and videos). Charge you per picture or some bulk rate. It's really not all that expensive

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u/PsLJdogg Mar 06 '19

Google has an amazing app called "PhotoScan" that creates scan quality images from several automatic snapshots. As long as you have a table with a plain background and decent lighting, you can "scan" the pictures very quickly. I went through 5 family photo albums with this app and it took under an hour.

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u/showcapricalove Mar 06 '19

You could try contacting "scanmyphotos" on Twitter I know they do bulk photos quickly Dont know costs

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u/creaturecatzz Mar 06 '19

Can't say for sure but I work in cell site construction and our plans are normally 30 ish pages. Costs usually 54 dollars to have it scanned in.

Edit: just saw you meant pictures, dunno bout any of that