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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 15, 2013 - 03:15pm PT
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Oh yeah, huh? I don't know, they were in the gear bag for some reason.
We probably had a couple 4" bongs for that pitch but we were pretty good free climbers back then. I suspect I free climbed a lot of it, even wearing RRs, and aided a bit also.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jul 15, 2013 - 07:52pm PT
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If you really want to make sure these images aren't lost, download your photos onto a USB drive from your hard drive. Lots of pictures in 10 GB.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 15, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
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Okay, I'm DONE!
Never, ever again will I ever scan another slide! EVER!
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:15pm PT
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I'm borrowing a Nikon Coolscan from Max, who is borrowing it from a neighbor. So far, the results are very nice. It does take time though.
scancafe.com
You could mail them that garbage pail as-is and you'd get back a few DVD's. Very high rez, corrected, blah, blah, all for very cheap. Super happy with my process. I mindlessly dumped every negative and slide I had from my climbing career into a box, didn't even have a count - no problems - everything got scanned - sort through it some other time.
The thing is - give this some thought - even the shittiest most worthless photos - some blurry and accidental shutter releases - they all brought back emotions and memories. I have them ALL.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:25pm PT
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Mark, I did that a couple of months ago.
The thing is - give this some thought - even the shittiest most worthless photos - some blurry and accidental shutter releases - they all brought back emotions and memories. I have them ALL.
You're right! I wish I hadn't thrown out so much. But I did, and it's gone.
I ain't looking back, only forward!
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:25pm PT
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Mark, You're right on top of one of my biggest regrets. I tell my kids often, forget all those damn photos of rocks, mountains, glaciers, lakes, clouds, streams and other objects. They'll be here long long after we're all gone, your buddies and family won't be. I had a camera when I was in jr. high and high school and I've got thousands of slides of objects and butt shots. There's been nothing remarkable about my climbing career except just how long I've been at it. What a shame as I witnessed history in the making or spent time with an old friend laughing in the sun I didn't record it. Oh well, fond memories just the same.
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:37pm PT
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Its all temporary. I lost 30 years of climbing photos in a fire. It hurt then, and huts even now, ten years later. It does make one put these artifacts in perspective. As many have pointed out, media changes over time, and our corporeal residence on this plane is fleeting.
If I can positively influence those around me, and send positive echos into the future via these encounters, then my pain over lost images is ultimately insignificant.
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:44pm PT
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BURN THEM!!!!
That would be Savage.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jul 15, 2013 - 11:54pm PT
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Mark,
for an offsite backup, consider something like an Amazon S3 bucket:
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
5GB free for the first year, really cheap after that.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 17, 2013 - 01:21am PT
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to cause us to be dumbstruck by the awesomeness of your trash can,
you'll have to get down really low and shoot skyward, sheesh
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Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
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Jul 17, 2013 - 10:34pm PT
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I'm saving someone from a big, boring, time consuming job after I die.
No kidding, Mark.
I have at least 60,000 climbing-related slides, mostly adventure stuff (Africa, Alaska, South America, Australia, etc.), but also portraits of everyone from RR (in '94) to Wilford (in '92)...a huge, huge compendium of stuff.
Not sure what to do with it all except scan it.
Camster
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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going through my family's slides, I looked for an easier way than to scan them one by one. I thought, Boomer already paid hundreds to have these loaded onto four CDs in 2007: there has got to be a way to get these images off the CD and I figured it out, eventually.
I just now tossed all eighteen boxes of slides. I live in a studio, and space is more precious than old slides I'll never need. Each of the kids got a set of CDs, so nobody's gonna miss'em or even know they're gone.
The thing is, somebody has to scan the slides, and unless you have nada to do, I recommend going through them, deciding which to keep, and sending them out to have them scanned and loaded on to disc. You can make copies off the disc, a simple process, as you need them. Works for me, but I ain't the one that paid to have the discs made!
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