Old Slides

I was motivated by the story about Spruce Tree House closing at Mesa Verde to dig through boxes to find slides from when we visited many years ago. I found them! We were there in August 1980. During that time my husband was doing all the photography and I did the filing. The Mesa Verde slides were in a notebook with each page (with pockets for each slide) neatly labeled. We don’t have a working slide viewer any more so I put together an ad hoc light table with a lamp on the floor and a piece of white acrylic resting on the top of the lamp shade.

Using the loupe to gain the magnification was not satisfying (field of view too small…and blurry around the edges) so I decided to try using just my camera.

The slides appeared to be in reasonable shape – not deteriorating over the 30+ years.

But – converting them to digital via a camera is really not the way to go. This one was done hand-held and is not as sharp as I want – and the set up to mount the camera and then feed in slides were be cumbersome.

My husband and I are talking about buying a slide to digital converter….and I’ll be adding another ‘project’ to my list.