some case pieces from the past

i'm on a mission to economically digitize my predigital images and it's quite a process.  my photographer was partial to 4x5 transparencies and satin prints, neither of which have i had much luck scanning to get high quality. larger images. so, after a little experimentation, i've got a pretty good set up now for sunny days where i just set my digital camera on a tripod, place the transparency on a little frosted glass easel that i made and take a quick photo before the transparency curls from the sun ... it's the best way yet that i've found to copy them.  i've also got a set up for 35mm that works too, but i need to get a new viewer ...
for more photos of both sideboards and case pieces visit our dorset custom furniture blog.  click the photos to enlarge them ...

sideboards here

case pieces here

 1989  natural cherry

 

 my 'transparency copier'

 1986 .. mahogany and black milk paint ... origin piece of our 'studio style'

 1993

 +/- 1993 .. can't remember

 early 90's sometime

 ditto ... 

goes with the piece above and has a mirror too ..

 'studio style'

for comparison, a purely digital image

 1990

 1996.  copy of an existing antique

 yee hah !! 1994.  where are these customers these days ???

 remarkably, 1983

 disassembled and reconfigured in a new location in 2010

 90's

90's

the wife ... 1971 ..  

for your 35 mm slides, find your old slide viewer and take it from there.