I just located all the old slides and other photo stuff at my parents' house and mailed them back to myself and have spent the last several days culling slides. I went from over a thousand to 376, and my son and dil helped yesterday with the final culling.
They said digitize them professionally. I had been leaning towards getting a scanner myself, but they said the pros could do a better job more cheaply, and be done with it. That's my first question--what would you do now, just take them to be digitalized and then be done with them for a while? I would print favorites out for albums because that is how I like to see my photographs.
The other issue is old negatives. I have some really old negatives, circa 1918, and even some glass plate negatives from family in Nebraska. What do you all recommend with these very old negatives? We didn't even deal with these yet, just finished the slides.
How do I give these to the pros to digitize without losing my organizational system, which right now is baggies with different categories and the number of slides within?
I probably have some more recent negatives, from the 50's, but I would probably discard those. . .
Anybody done this, and have suggestions?