Bayside Digital

When and why Bayside Digital services started.

During Hurricane Sandy, Lucine was in Virginia visiting her girlfriend Yogini. They stopped by one of Yogini's neighbours, Anthony. Anthony showed us the few framed photos he was left with. All the family photos that were at Anthony's father's house up in New York were completely LOST during Hurricane Sandy. Water had rushed thru the basement of his house and all the family's irreplaceable photos and albums were GONE!

Lucine decided to have her photo collection digitized, to save from loss and damage. Her son Alex, who has graphics design background, gladly took upon himself the huge pending project. Alex digitized all 8+ shoe boxes, plus two xerox boxes full of photos with professional tools! What a relief once all those were digitized! Over 9000 analog photos were now safe and accessible anytime and anywhere, ALL archived!

They found out many of their friends were in the same situation. They wished their collection were digitized. Hence, Bayside Digital was created by the end of May 2015.

Bayside Digital is here to help you out with all those boxes of paper photos and albums you cherish. Don't you wish they were all digitized? If you tried to do it yourself on flatbed, you know how time consuming and overwhelming task it is. Also it's not of the best quality output. We can do it at a fraction of the time with high quality output.

If you keep your photos in boxes, there is the threat of damage or loss from natural disasters and deterioration over time.

Let's turn your treasured photos into digital format, to share and enjoy on every modern device. You never know when you might need them!

Let's make it easy to relive those long forgotten family and friends gatherings, vacations, parties, celebrations.

Your treasured paper photos deserve to be digitized and archived. Once we have your photos organized, you'll be able to update and add all your other digital files in one place.

Look for our specials often. We also offer special discounts and donate to non-profit organizations holding special events.

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I will add a new FAQ soon

My scanner notes

 Here are some of my notes regarding scanners:

EPSON V550 scanning

 The official Epson website: https://epson.com/Support/Scanners/Perfection-Series/Epson-Perfection-V550-Photo/s/SPT_B11B210201# 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqI5CHNm34k

Troubleshoot Epson V550 problems scanning at: http://inside.scrippscollege.edu/it/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Epson-Perfection-Scanner-Tips-and-Troubleshooting.pdf

Film Scanning Tips for Epson Perfection Scanners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpmlEeJodw

http://www.1stinscanner.com/Perfection-V550_p_625.html

Scanning tips: articles

 This article has clear explanation and comparison of several scanning apps :

Why you should consider using vFlat for book scanning

Kunwoo Park

Nov 25, 2019 · 7 min read

 

Speaking of archiving, here is an interesting organization:

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine

San Francisco, CA archive.org

 

Info from the twitter account of archive.org here is more information:

Whether it’s @unsplash or @internetarchive there are quite a few inexpensive, or even free, resources available to help #filmmakers. We listed many of our favorites here: http://ow.ly/My7q50AZPn8

 

Open Library

@openlibrary

We lend ebooks worldwide, for free. Over two million free ebooks available and 1M more in our lending library. A web page for every book.

Brewster Kahle

@brewster_kahle

Digital Librarian http://openlibrary.org http://brewster.kahle.org http://archive.org

@internetarchive

@openlibrary

@great78project

Jason Scott

@textfiles

Proprietor of http://TEXTFILES.COM, historian, filmmaker, archivist, famous cat maintenance staff. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur.

 

Brewster Kahle

@brewster_kahle

Digital Librarian http://openlibrary.org http://brewster.kahle.org http://archive.org

@internetarchive

@openlibrary

@great78project

 

 

My notes:

I searched archive.org for a long time newspaper and it got wrong info:

The Armenian Reporter, a New York Armenian newspaper is not CORRECT at all! It's some business, totally unrelated. So I got to try and find out if they are really correct in archiving, as they claim.

 

 

 

What makes a photograph memorable?

We all have family photos in albums, envelopes, boxes. Occasionally we look at them. Most of the time they are not touched. They are stored somewhere, in the basement, the closet or the attic. What's the status of your photos? If they were all digitized, how would you go about discarding them? Here is a great article. Your thoughts, experience is welcome to share What makes a photograph memorable?

December is here, but don't panic

December is here, but don't panic

 

 

Special introductory offer for new clients

Here is the special introductory offer to new clients by Bayside Digital

Rack Cards by Vistaprint

Bayside digital photo scanning services archiving and preservation

Bayside digital photo scanning services archiving and preservation Bayside Digital has special bundles - get ready for upcoming holidays, family gatherings, celebrations, memorials, commemorations. Your precious photos don't belong in the basement, the attic, in boxes, drawers and envvelopes. These prices are for a limited time, take advantage of it and get them digitized. Let Bayside Digital bring your family photo and video collection to the 21st century!

Special discount on photo digitization for October 2015

Special discount on photo digitization for October 2015 Follow this blog link to the special October 2015 discount! Be ready for the special events coming up in the months ahead!

Scanning preserving photos family history and digitization blog

Scanning preserving photos family history and digitization blog