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Scanning Photos

Scanning Photos

Hi, I'm Ben Long. And this week on The Practicing Photographer, I'm hiding from my relatives. No, not really. I'm here at this family gathering. And I've started a process before I got here. Which was to begin an archiving process that I think is going to go on for a long time. My parents have a bunch of pictures. There are lots of other relatives with lots of pictures. I know that I would like to have copies of them The pictures. And I'm sure that we would all like to have copies of each others pictures. So I got here, and went out an bought a cheap scanner. I didn't bring it with me. You can get scanners for under $50 now. So I just went and got one and had it setup. But before I came, I asked all the relatives I could get a hold of to start bringing photo albums, prints, not slides. That's a whole, other question. So, I've got this big mess of, of prints here that I want to start scanning. This is a great kind of a long-term project to do around holidays. Or any time you're going…

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