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ulf, 6 days ago to random

New CEO came down with Covid on Friday last week, the project manager I work with tested positive yesterday. A co-worker who has been nearly as paranoid as me for 4 years got Covid on a flight back from the UK last week - masked for 35 hours, but sitting next to someone obviously sick.

#CovidIsNotOver

ohno, 6 days ago to random

Hiya fedi, I need your knowledge! The family wants to digitise a big collection of old photographs, negatives and photo slides. I know there’s services we can send the material to that do this for a living, but grandpa is afraid to hand them off for fear of them getting damaged, lost etc. So I need to figure out how to do this “in house” as best I can.

I’ve figured out there’s specific photo scanners, instead of a flat bed scanner, that should be able to handle the negatives and the slides.

But what I don’t know is about good software to scan and archive them properly, what things to watch out for when doing this and what kind of software exists that could help restore and enhance the digital copies.

It doesn’t matter if this is a slow going process, there’s no deadline here.

If you have any recommendations for hardware equipment, software or documentation and protocols to read I’d be very grateful. I would prefer to do this using open source software but if there’s proprietary software that makes a meaningful difference I’m happy to consider it.

(I know how to search the web myself, so I’m looking for advice from folks with practical experience, not just a Google search hit or whatever an LLM misgenerated.)

Boost would be appreciated since unfortunately I’m short on folks with this type of knowledge in my own social circles.

Niall, 6 days ago to random

Forcing people to use Facebook (or other proprietary monopolistic corporations) to get updates on essential services should be illegal.
Luckily I'm offgrid and so I'm just looking as a tourist but the point stands. Grrrrrrrrrr.

DropBear, 6 days ago to Israel

Remember Hind Rajab.
#IsraelPalestineConflict
#israel
#Palestine
#WarCrimes
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
@palestine @israel

geoff_eg, 6 days ago to movies

Hello Mastadon!... time to try something new.

First an introduction - I go by Dyptre online, I'm a photographer based in Western Canada with a primary focus on capturing landscapes with a focus on natural and real editing. I shoot #film, I and primarily shoot #fujifilm

If you want to see more - give me a follow here I guess!

#photography #realphotographs #canada #nature #naturephotography

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