HOLIDAY SNAPS

I was talking to Mike today. He's off to Wellington soon and will be staying with Chris and Sue.
I believe that Richard and Shelley will be coming around for dinner so he'll be able to hear all about the Italian Campaign.


Richard apparently has threatened promised to put on a slide show of his holiday snaps. kind of like what people did in the 1950s and 60s.

I guess that as Richard's latest photographs are all digital he'll be able to show them on a computer screen. He may of course, since he'll have a captive audience, bring out old slides of his holidays in the 60s and 70s - resplendent in his red corduroy trousers, hippie necklace and vinyl jacket.

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While we were talking, Mike and I reminisced about the photos we took when we were young and it turns out that we both used colour slides. I think that this was because they were much cheaper than having colour prints made. Mike says that he has hundreds of slides from his OE experiences in the 1970s and I have, somewhere hundreds from the 1970s that I took after buying my first decent camera - a Praktica SLR 35mm.

Mike says that he still has a slide projector and is going to get it going and look at his slides.

I don't have one of these and don't know how I'll view my slides if I find them. They are likely to be in a box somewhere that hasn't been opened for 40 years. I'm keen to see them though as no doubt there will be some nice family snaps.

I'm a bit of a Luddite regarding technology but there must be a simple way of transferring the slides to digital. A quick Google search came up with professional companies doing this for $1 a slide. I don't think I'll take up that offer and will look on Trade Me for a machine that can do this.