12-05-2006, 03:09 PM
[quote davester]...unless of course I'd specifically asked for it myself.
You just hit on the piece we don't really know, and I should have mentioned that myself, because, you're right, and that is an important factor. If a slide scanner is someone else's idea of a "really fun gift", then that's a different story. I got the impression from the initial post that this was something the gentleman felt his wife would want, since she's apparently already got a flatbed scanner. I know that I would certainly not have wanted anyone to pack up every slide and negative they could find in the house and do this for me. But, I'm kind of a compulsive neat freak, and I used the whole project as an opportunity to review and reorganize everything as I went along. By the time the images were scanned, they were also well organized, both digitally and physically. Even though I didn't necessarily get a big charge out of sitting next to the scanner listening to it, I did get a huge amount of satisfaction out of the whole project, and much of that satisfaction came from the "process" aspect of it.,
I did go back and reread the original post, and, ahem, those references to "we" do cast a bit of a cloud over whose idea this really is.
You just hit on the piece we don't really know, and I should have mentioned that myself, because, you're right, and that is an important factor. If a slide scanner is someone else's idea of a "really fun gift", then that's a different story. I got the impression from the initial post that this was something the gentleman felt his wife would want, since she's apparently already got a flatbed scanner. I know that I would certainly not have wanted anyone to pack up every slide and negative they could find in the house and do this for me. But, I'm kind of a compulsive neat freak, and I used the whole project as an opportunity to review and reorganize everything as I went along. By the time the images were scanned, they were also well organized, both digitally and physically. Even though I didn't necessarily get a big charge out of sitting next to the scanner listening to it, I did get a huge amount of satisfaction out of the whole project, and much of that satisfaction came from the "process" aspect of it.,
I did go back and reread the original post, and, ahem, those references to "we" do cast a bit of a cloud over whose idea this really is.