Milsurp After Hours

I have been saving my digital images on memory sticks. It's all pretty straight forward and a relatively quick process. The print film negatives I have in sleeves, and most of them, going back many decades, I have also as prints. However, my slide film has pretty much been mostly forgotten in boxes for years now. My slide projector hasn't been plugged in since probably George Bush Junior was in his first term. I wonder if the bulb in it is still good. So... I decided to scan them all and save them with the digital stuff on a memory stick.

The process is slow motion. The scanner setup I have only does four at a time. On top of that the various slide processors had different looking cardboard frames and sometimes what was right side up with the logo side facing up on one positive image was the other way around on the next one. Another problem was dust. A very small speck of dust to the eye becomes magnified greatly in a digitized image. The reversed image was quickly fixed with the software flipping the image horizontally, but it's isn't the preferred process.

Slide film, particularly Kodachrome, supposed to last without deterioration for an easy 100 years if kept with some care. But....they are not easily viewed without a projector or prints or turning into digitized images. The images I have are Kodachrome, Ektachrome, and some movie film processed by a company that's been out of business for 20 years or more.

I have an Epson 550V scanner but after a quick rush of blood to the head one week I decided that my 35mm slides could stay in their sleeves.! The same with the negatives. I also have Medium Format slides and film which will stay in their respective storage units too!

I don't really have many slides and converted the ones I do have years ago with a device similar to yours.
What I have been slowly working on is converting VHS and VHS-C home movies to digital. The real problem is
finding a VCR that works as they seem to degrade over time and most of them don't work anymore.
The last new VCR player was made in 2016 and the last tapes in 2008. I have several and whenever I find one
for sale that works, I buy it, luckily they are cheap..........

Was looking at the photos you posted and one that caught my eye is the Corsair F4U-1C, it is rare, only 200 made
out of 12,500 production total. It has 4 Hispano M2 20mm cannons instead of the normal 6 50cal machine guns.
There were problems with the cannons that made this version less popular than the reliable machine guns, but
the cannons gave it awesome firepower.

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