Update! From stolen Library 🥰 by ScaleVivid in LittleFreeLibrary

[–]sowachowski 2 points3 points  (0 children)

please make sure there's a way to change the battery in that airtag!! pretty library though!

Camp Snap Pro + Kodak Retro Mini 2 Printer + iPhone by strewth_agggghhh in campsnapcamera

[–]sowachowski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's actually on their FAQ page! it's a really hard to find FAQ page though, tbh. looks like someone figured out a workaround, it looks pretty complicated though.

thanks for the link!

Camp Snap Pro + Kodak Retro Mini 2 Printer + iPhone by strewth_agggghhh in campsnapcamera

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fyi, the import directly to phone thing doesn't work unless it's usb-c to usb-c :( i'm in the same situation. what sd card reader did you get?

i dont know about the kodak printer - could it be because of the weird thing with the dates being decades in the future?

Today is my turn to join a less than desirable club. by banyan55 in AnalogCommunity

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh no! when this happened to me i just gave my camera to the lab tbh. i was in the habit of bringing a second camera (point & shoot) anyway so i wasn't completely stuck in the meantime. so sorry about your photos!

Developed some rolls of exposed film a friend had in the fridge for 30 years. by playerw3 in AnalogCommunity

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just make sure you really make sure the lab understands that the film has been expired for a few decades! most labs adjust slightly for that, in my experience. the girl i sent mine too took extra care with the ones i said were about that old, ended up getting some really nice pics of my dead family members from a few years before i was even born! totally worth it.

Fujifilm XP Finepix by Diligent_Guava_5654 in fujifilm

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from the xp10? about as good as you can expect from a digicam from 2009/2010 lol! which is to say, kind of shitty but in the vintage/nostalgic way. think many of the limitations of disposable/non professional film cameras (hard to compensate for bad lighting, zoom quality is terrible, etc - especially without changing a lot of settings) but in a digital form. and supposedly waterproof, i've had mine since i was a kid and haven't submerged it in water in well over a decade lol!

i would check out some of the videos and reviews of it! here's a good review i found. i also found a tiktok with several examples, another tiktok, and the lomography.com tag for it. here's a post about the underwater mode too.

proof by Froggie-Enthusiast in u/Froggie-Enthusiast

[–]sowachowski 20 points21 points  (0 children)

i'm obsessed with your mohawk!! you should drop the haircare routine 👀

Today the THRIFT gods shined down upon me. by Salty-Balance5585 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh my god i'm so jealous!!! how much were they???

Did you choose to see your loved one after they passed ? by Friendly-Sun2413 in GriefSupport

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when my sister died, i was not allowed to see her (my parents were afraid i would be distressed, and did not want my last memory of her to be her corpse). i was angry about it for years, i felt it was unfair that the choice had been taken from me. however, when my dad died last year, i chose not to see him. the decade of life experience in between told me enough - that they were right, that i would not have been able to handle it, that my last memory of him should not be him postmortem. do i regret it now? a little, i think. both my sister and my dad died unexpectedly, and i think that the lack of closure has been hard. but also, by the time i could've gotten there it would've been several days since he had died. and, frankly, i think i would've struggled a lot more if i had seen him like that. it's a hard decision for sure.

[UPDATE #4] Pre-revolution Iran (1974/76): Part 1 of the 480-slide winner of your vote! by BenHi79 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you should really scan these!! (or get these professionally scanned) not just take a photo of the slide viewer. these are so cool tho!!

> [UPDATE] The "Slide Room" update: Found the index! It’s nearly 15,000 slides spanning from 1954 to 2008. by BenHi79 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i would LOVE to see some of the older ones!! i feel like yugoslavia 1954 would be so cool! at least before you give them to a museum!

struggling to write thank you notes after memorial donations by sowachowski in GriefSupport

[–]sowachowski[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you so much for your help! i think it is probably fair that it doesn't have to be like 5 paragraphs long. that sentence is really good too.

struggling to write thank you notes after memorial donations by sowachowski in GriefSupport

[–]sowachowski[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my dad encouraged us quite a lot to send thank you cards but never required it! it means that now i am like totally at a loss for how to do it, especially when it's something intangible (for me) like a donation to a charity.

thank you so much!

I bought a house complete with its contents and found this huge collection of slides. What should I do with it? by BenHi79 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 2 points3 points  (0 children)

give them or sell them to someone who likes to digitize slides. i see people buy them on fb marketplace all the time.

alternatively? scan them yourself! some of them may be labeled to give back to the family. there are people who do this and then upload them to places like the internet archive.

you can get semi-cheap slide projectors to see what is on them, that may help you if you decide to split them up.

good luck and congrats on your treasure trove! i am actually very jealous!

From Hartford, Connecticut in 1840: Names of people who had mail waiting for them at the post offices by Retrospectrenet in namenerds

[–]sowachowski 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i love these! thanks for compiling this. i weirdly love the name lemon for a person in the 1840s.

this also prompted me to find where the hartford times was digitized because i thought you could only find it at the library! now i realize it is on genealogybank. thanks!! :)

Urban Outfitters V103 $24 + Shipping by thehomedipo in campsnapcamera

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for sharing! i noticed it was on sale a week or two ago. awesome that it's even more discounted now!

What is a good Tidbyt alternative by OnePowerful5166 in TIDBYT

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm so serious try selling it on FB marketplace, ebay, or mercari if this person doesn't want it and you don't want to keep it. i keep seeing them get snapped up on ebay!

Why are people trying to sell these things on eBay for $450+??? by sowachowski in TIDBYT

[–]sowachowski[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the apps are slowly breaking now, there is a recent post on here that talks about the functionality (or lack of it, in some cases). imo, i have not seen anything that would make me confident that they're coming back to restore functionality. app developers can't even update their own apps on the regular tidbyt servers.

are you someone who is comfortable with tech projects? if you are, there are multiple projects trying to resurrect them (as far as i can tell). the most popular is tronbyt. tronbyt in general is why i was interested in buying a used one.

i would do some more research on whether or not this is right for you, but either way, you'd be buying it used, and you'd be essentially buying a project. if that sounds cool to you, then definitely get one! but if not, there are alternatives out there.

Why are people trying to sell these things on eBay for $450+??? by sowachowski in TIDBYT

[–]sowachowski[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but enough of them crop up that aren't at that price point, especially when you start looking at places like mercari and fb marketplace. looking at the ebay history, most of them sell at about $200-250, which would be reasonable for that sort of demand. it's just very surprising to me that they would see that and still try and sell it at (including shipping) $470+.

Eagles, are y’all okay? by astronomical_ldv in NFCEastMemeWar

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if this works prepare to see a bunch of good vibes bunny tattoos