I have just joined this forum following many years of basic photography that started with my father in our makeshift darkroom in the early 1960's. I had a box brownie and its successor, cannot remember the name, but still have those old cameras stored somewhere.
I still rate myself as a beginner despite many years of taking photos.
My father was an avid photographer both in WA and Tasmania over many years, he is now 94 and confined to a retirement home.
I have inherited his darkroom equipment which includes a home made enlarger, many boxes of unopened photographic paper which has most likely expired now.
My main interest currently is in scanning the thousands of negatives to make a large printed volume of his work for my family. I am having trouble with the scanning process with most of the negatives and that is why I have joined this site.
I am not sure if there is a technical help thread regarding scanning old negatives, as being new I know I am not able to see all the threads, I have read the info created for new members and it seemed very much focussed on competitions and help with camera techniques.
I also tried to message Ricktas to ask if this forum site is appropriate to my current needs but could not access pm's due to my current new status.
I plan to participate once I can adequately scan the old negatives with a focus on my fathers pics based on history in both WA and Tasmania.
kenlaughlin