Many of my old photos, slides and negatives have faded and with each passing year, they slowly deteriorate.
This weekend, I discovered how to preserve them forever (or until the world ends). I’d like to share my findings with you.
I purchased an Epson RX700 that scans photos, slides, negatives and prints them or transfers them to a flash card, memory stick and a host of other devices which you can then transfer to your computer.
I’m not advocating my Epson, as I’m sure there are similar brands that do similar things, but for under $200, this was a great buy.
I already saved money by printing 8X10s that I’ve entered for a photo contest in Garden RR magazine, and the quality is so much better than the machine does at Wal-Mart.
I was amazed at the great quality of the photos scanned from color negatives. When you use PhotoShop or similar program, you can remove some of the yellowing that develops over time.
There’s literally thousands of old photos, slides and negatives that I’ll be scanning over the coming months, many of them trains from the fallen flag era of 60s and 70s.
Here’s a small sampling of Kodak instamatic shots, scanned from badly fading square format photos:
Ah, Camp Lejeune in the early 1970s. Open squadbay and “Starchies”.
Guarding an armory in Camp Lejeune, early 1970s, from Communist forces that might at any moment land on the North Carolina coast.
One of my favorite railways was this private quarry line in the Rotterdam, NY area near the old NYC, which once ran on the south shore of the Mohawk
The Penn Central in 1971 nor