HYEE up and running on ebay....again
 

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXCEPTIONAL-...item3a8682f4a1

Let the bloodbath begin.

Oh no! Here we go again!

A question...

He is offering literally hundreds of Slide Transparencies this time around. What do people do with these tiny Slides? Many of the images feature gorgeous colors and are clear as a bell. But is there a way to view/display them, that I'm missing? I suppose you could make color prints from them, but is that what winning bidders generally intend to do with these?

Just curious... here's a link to one of the many examples...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Origin...ht_5043wt_1231

I've asked the same question about the negatives he sells. Some of them go for a lot of money but I'm not sure what you do with them after you buy them.

Probably in part because they're historical artifacts, akin to baseball card printing plates. I don't have a use or collecting interest in negatives, but have a few as interesting production items. I've had a few glass plates, which are interesting to show people.

As with others, I'm more of a hang-on-the-wall photo type person. Some people collect baseball card wrappers and probably empty vintage film boxes, so I'm not judging what others buy. My taste is just my taste.

What I usually do after I get em is call doc brown and see if he can take me back to when the negative was made and develop as many photos as i can and then when I get back sell them on ebay..lol...honestly there are alot of hardcore collectors who collect original negatives. You cant do much with them except just display and appreciate them. Its knowing that you have a original negative of a beautiful photo from that period that makes it collectable

As DRC said, people collect the oddest things so the demand for original negatives doesn't shock me.
After all, it is the original piece handled by the original photographer used to develope the photos(closest thing to the beginning of that process). I think owning a glass plate negative by Mr Conlon, would be pretty f n sweet personally(example).
These are also of a high profile photographer which can produce some beautiful images.
They are a part of history and the process of baseball photography.

As far as what do you do with them?? IDK.. look at them.. envision the process(photographer using them to produce photos).. store them in a box.. develope them to get a high end print for yourself..

What does one do with an unused Mickey Mantle pencil set after all? :) Different strokes for different folks I guess. I own a couple burke negs(babe ruth ad rookie williams). I bought them to own a piece of history, learn from them(handle/study them and have as exemplars). I think they are pretty cool personally but don't really know why ..haha. No doubt though, my passion is in the end product(original photos) which is pretty obvious.

I saw a display of historical barb wire and a museum of historical bathrooms (in Kohler Wisconsin, where many of your toilets, sinks and bathtubs are made). Both were surprisingly interesting.

Exactly the analogy I was prepared to make before reading further down the page. One difference between negatives and printing plates though being that you can actually use a negative or transparency to produce the end product, a photograph, much more easily than you can use a printing plate to produce a card :)

One advantage transparencies have over negatives though is that you can view and enjoy the transparencies without having to make a print or scan/invert the image. Sure, they're a bit smaller than most baseball cards, even tobacco cards, but the image quality is a heck of a lot better. And when they're in a slide mount, there really isn't a whole lot of difference between those and cards as far as feel and how you handle them (just don't bare-finger the film portion). In fact, I often store individual slides in a toploader right along with the cards if they're not part of a larger collection (in which case 20-pocket pages are more convenient). With all the crap they're cramming in cards these days, I'm actually surprised we don't see more transparency cards (there have been a few on the non-sport side as "film" cards), especially with the process for mounting a frame of film in a mount being very similar with how it would be mounted in a card.

Some beautiful photos..