Thank you all so much - I never thought these images would get such a positive response; thank you again.
Given the variation in your format sizes from 135 to 10"x8", how do you do your scanning? I need to cull my slides down to a more realistic number.
Hugh - I have two scanners - a Polaroid SS120 film scanner which takes all medium formats up to 12x6cm, and 35mm, and an A3 flat-bed Epson Epression 1640 XL Pro which I use for 5x4", 5x7", 108" and 6x17cm (from a Fuji panoramic camera). I get good scans from both scanners by not using the max. resolution and by setting the scanner for multiple passes, usually 6 or 8.
About making a book - I don't have nearly enough good material from Turkey - these images were made during a short family holiday and so there are not many of them; at best 20-30 decent images.
And about being careful what I throw away - I twice had many hundreds of scans done commercially, once in India and once in the USA, plus, back in the days of film I was doing a lot of scanning myself. What I am keeping is all the images which have never been scanned but are good enough. So I will still have a onsiderable archive of my pre-2006 work but it will all have been digitised.
(In 2006 I switched completely to digital capture.)
