I took loads of slides starting about 1970, and since I got a 45 megapixel cam, haven't digitized them, only a few.
I think that this will give me about all I can get out of the slides, compared to a real expensive scanner.
But since I went digital, of course, thousands upon thousands of images on disk. It wasn't until I got a Coolpix P510 quite a few years back, that the collection exploded. It has an effective focal length or 24-1000 mm. and does fabulously well with macro close-ups, just not extreme ones. I am an optics nut (did optical engineering for years) and used nothing but that camera for over 10 years, and skipped the DSLR era entirely. It still delivers, and is now my "take it everywhere in the car" camera. It used to feel BIG, but since the mirrorless cameras, feels small.
I, too, have semi-organized photos on disk and the time has come to gather them all on one disk and back that up.
I do mirror backups (on a mac, using SuperDuper which is mac-only) so I can boot off the backup disk.
I also back up every one of my external disks, which have just about all my photos and saved articles. The phone gets hooked up to the computer for backups of phone photos, so they are part of the mix.
I quite honestly don't save any photos inside a photo program, because those change, and as plain old files, I get to sort them, rearrange and rename them as needed. No "import and export" needed.
But I'll say that the lessons I learned with film, like trying to get exposure just right, and framing photos as I shoo them, have paid back enormously,
I still shoot some film.
Ken Rockwell gives some reasons.
https://kenrockwell.com/tech/why-we-love-film.htm
I save film shooting for the super-ultra-best occasions, like a planned revisit to Sentinel Dome and Taft Point WHEN THE SNOW CLEARS (officially) from Glacier Point Road in Yosemite!!!!
plus digital, of course
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