Pastimes And Hobbies

A very full and varied life there Karen....do you ever get time to yourself we ask ourselves.....2 options for getting the old photos onto PC and disc.

To do it yourself you would need to buy a scanner. these plug into the PC and are fairly simple to operate. If you dont want that hassle you need to find a shop, photo or otherwise, that offers a digitising service if there is such a word but their charges can be quite high, I think the likes of Jacobs and Jessops maybe offer the service

I think you may need to come back on the Quizzy and tell people who he is....we don't seem to be getting very far with him:(

Ooo, we have a scanner in the loft, finger crossed it plugs in to our new laptop, thanks Dave.....if not, will follow James' suggestion, do you have to download the programme? 

i will ring my mate now karen he put it on for me

hang about

i have just phoned my mate --not available till later.

as soon as he calls i will give you the details no problem--on my cd i have about 45 pics on with the music from "once upon a time in america " it looks really good --imagine all your family in that film.

We have Windows 7

That sounds great James, can think of a few soundtracks already :)

Cathy, you can get dedicated scanners for slides and negs but they tend to be poor quality unless you spend a lot on a professional piece of kit. Best option is a normal home/smalloffice scanner but make sure it has the ability to allow slides and negs to be scanned. you can get these over here for round the £100 + mark. you just need to read the blurb about them

 Karen, depending  what OS you run...XP...Vista....7   you will be able to download the required drivers for the scanner unless ofcourse you have the original installation disc. Just do a GOOGLE search for whatever make and model scanner you have..........something like .....'Epson ABC123 drivers'   and you will get loads of links just need to open one or two and follow the instructions, sounds alot more complicated than it is.....

Nice thread you started, James.

My greatest hobby is collecting comic books and comic character related items. I’m a collector for more than 35 years and my collection includes more than 35,000 items (books, articles, stamps, toys, posters, catalogs, etc). Strolling around on boot fairs and in 2e hand shops and bookstores is a part of this hobby. And of course organizing and ordering the collection.