So I told her about this cool project, described what a 35mm slide was, said how old they were, etc., and she looked at me impassively for a couple of beats and said, "Can we watch E.T.??" So we did. It was a spaghetti and movies and baking cookies evening.
I haven't given up on the idea, but she'll have to be in the mood to do it. Considering that I haven't been in the mood for a year and a half, I can't expect more from her!! We'll try again another time. Meanwhile, I will do a tray or two now and then. The small stack of trays in the corner of the dining room will not go back to oblivion on the bottom shelf.
Oh, those old 35 mm slides - Erich and Anne's early lives are on the dratted things, cannot throw them out, quality extremely variable, so many VERY unsuitable for printing out. Even a good slide seems to make a crumby print. Then came colour negatives and reasonably decent prints (but pricey), and somewhere about the time Anne's children arrived we moved to digital - and I remember being allowed to take pictures with an ancient Kodak pocket camera, the sort that had a leather bellows!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with the Project,
Gae, in Callala Bay