Need file repository for sharing large files
I am doing a project of digitizing my fathers old slides from the 60's during his 5 year Air Force posting to France. Couple thousand slides of camping trips throughout Europe and England. We trave...
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Again, more great input from all, thank you.
It isn't likely that any of us will be printing these pics. Maybe a select few will ever see the printer.
The primary recipients of my work are 2 brothers.
One of my brothers is heavily into photography and does extensive photo editing of his work. He lives in Cabo Mexico and does a lot of wildlife photography there. He, like myself is picky about quality and detail.
Amongst the 3 of us, we have 12 children. They likely don't care as much about high quality as my one brother and I do. But if I am going to scan them, why not do hi res pics instead of low? High can be reduced, but low cannot be increased.
Most of us, including the kids, have large smart TVs. The viewing device of choice will mostly be showing them on these large screens. Therefore, the higher the quality, the better for seeing a 4 foot wide image. I ran a few on mine and I like the quality.
Unfortunately, my dedicated slide and film scanner is very old. In its day in the early 2000s it was $1200. new. Though obsolete now, it is still better quality than the cheap ones available today. It is a TWAIN driven scanner, technology no longer used. I bought VueScan, very good software, and they reverse engineer the TWAIN drivers to make them function with Windows 10. Scanner is a Canon Canoscan FS4000US. But it is painfully slowwwwwww. About an hour to scan 4 slides, once set up. About 1 hr, 20 min including setup, naming and saving files etc.
I don't buy cheap stuff to get me by. If I buy another it would be a professional grade unit. With quality, I maintain "You only cry once".
My dad's slides total approx 1200. I haven't counted them. My wonderful lady has about the same number of her fathers slides. And I have roughly 3000 of my own.
Not everyone is interested in viewing them, but I know my grandchildren would love to see Great Grandpas photographic record of European travels, along with Grandpas (myself) records of their own parents, and cousins, uncles, aunts when they were kids.
All this is why having an online stash for all to draw from makes the most sense. Yes, I could grab a bunch of thumb drives and hand them out. I'm a techno kind of guy and enjoy doing stuff like this.
Onedrive was mentioned. I have that myself, never use it. I think it came with my MS Office subscription, not sure. Perhaps I should look at that.
Still, I don't trust cloud storage. Not that there is any value to these pics other than family memories, but I still don't think anyone has any right or business to use them aside from those I give them to.
Thanks for the input.
It isn't likely that any of us will be printing these pics. Maybe a select few will ever see the printer.
The primary recipients of my work are 2 brothers.
One of my brothers is heavily into photography and does extensive photo editing of his work. He lives in Cabo Mexico and does a lot of wildlife photography there. He, like myself is picky about quality and detail.
Amongst the 3 of us, we have 12 children. They likely don't care as much about high quality as my one brother and I do. But if I am going to scan them, why not do hi res pics instead of low? High can be reduced, but low cannot be increased.
Most of us, including the kids, have large smart TVs. The viewing device of choice will mostly be showing them on these large screens. Therefore, the higher the quality, the better for seeing a 4 foot wide image. I ran a few on mine and I like the quality.
Unfortunately, my dedicated slide and film scanner is very old. In its day in the early 2000s it was $1200. new. Though obsolete now, it is still better quality than the cheap ones available today. It is a TWAIN driven scanner, technology no longer used. I bought VueScan, very good software, and they reverse engineer the TWAIN drivers to make them function with Windows 10. Scanner is a Canon Canoscan FS4000US. But it is painfully slowwwwwww. About an hour to scan 4 slides, once set up. About 1 hr, 20 min including setup, naming and saving files etc.
I don't buy cheap stuff to get me by. If I buy another it would be a professional grade unit. With quality, I maintain "You only cry once".
My dad's slides total approx 1200. I haven't counted them. My wonderful lady has about the same number of her fathers slides. And I have roughly 3000 of my own.
Not everyone is interested in viewing them, but I know my grandchildren would love to see Great Grandpas photographic record of European travels, along with Grandpas (myself) records of their own parents, and cousins, uncles, aunts when they were kids.
All this is why having an online stash for all to draw from makes the most sense. Yes, I could grab a bunch of thumb drives and hand them out. I'm a techno kind of guy and enjoy doing stuff like this.
Onedrive was mentioned. I have that myself, never use it. I think it came with my MS Office subscription, not sure. Perhaps I should look at that.
Still, I don't trust cloud storage. Not that there is any value to these pics other than family memories, but I still don't think anyone has any right or business to use them aside from those I give them to.
Thanks for the input.
