Life Before
The fisher folk came by this morn, wearing white and cloaked in dawn. Accent the grey, dark the brown; closely fitted, a feather gown ...
Public Speaking: Beyond Fear
The ideas, concepts and tools contained in this book may catapult you to levels of freedom and ease with public speaking that you’ve never had before.
Dealers: Buying, Selling & Making Money
Treasure Hunter, Collector, Bargainer, Speculator or Investor--which are you using to your disadvantage and how do you turn that around?
There's No Sex in Golf
Weird name for a golf book, but then it's not a normal golf book—looking at golf beyond the mental game.
Wedding Speeches
You may only need this book once in your life but it's the the one to have if you're getting married; full of ideas and coaching.
The First Five Years
A compelling true story of courage, endeavor and success; one of Australia’s largely unknown but nevertheless intrepid, gutsy pioneering families
Advanced Speaking Concepts
Concepts to assist you going beyond all of the old, worn public speaking techniques that everyone else uses to be competent, average and safe.
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Converting 50 Year Old 35mm Slides

As part of my latest book, The First 5 Years, I'm using some of my Dad's fifty year old old 35mm slides, but how to get them into the computer?

Digital scanning costs about $2 per slide and there is around 400 of them; it seems like a big expense. So, I have been experimenting with fixing the slide to the screen of my laptop, making the desktop bright white, and photographing the slide with a macro lens; it didn't work out so well.

This is what I came up with: an old slide projector, a light box made out of a paper box and a digital camera with macro lens. It worked so well that I'm converting the lot; all 400 slides. Guess I'll have to surrender the kitchen bench and cutting board eventually!

 

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