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johnalex141r
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A new thread; but very related to Stuart's "remember film?" thread.
A while ago, before he died, I "kinda" knew the historian for the Canadian Pacific Railway. I vividly remember his wording of thoughts on photographs were that "they get more important as time goes on"
Sure enough, the local steam train and regular train pics that I took in the '80s are now keepers. 25 years later. At the time, they were just experimental photographs, taken for interest and fun.
So, how do we properly archive digital photos so that, sometime in the future, ones of interest can be found??
Sure, we can label them "Mom on long walk", but what may be really of interest is not "Mom" but, where she's walking.
Negatives (or slides) can be easily, quickly, scanned. Someone can walk up to my negative collection, and quickly go through it. When things are on CD, that becomes really incredibly difficult.
I'm concerned about it; last year, firing/driving the final dregs of steam in Poland, I took along an older nikon P&S. This year, I'm deciding between my M8, OR FILM. Some of what I did last year is no longer available this year; there really is a seminal change going on; I just try and record it; I'll leave it to others in the future to determine what is important or not.
Scary thought - forgoing digital for film...
JohnS.
A while ago, before he died, I "kinda" knew the historian for the Canadian Pacific Railway. I vividly remember his wording of thoughts on photographs were that "they get more important as time goes on"
Sure enough, the local steam train and regular train pics that I took in the '80s are now keepers. 25 years later. At the time, they were just experimental photographs, taken for interest and fun.
So, how do we properly archive digital photos so that, sometime in the future, ones of interest can be found??
Sure, we can label them "Mom on long walk", but what may be really of interest is not "Mom" but, where she's walking.
Negatives (or slides) can be easily, quickly, scanned. Someone can walk up to my negative collection, and quickly go through it. When things are on CD, that becomes really incredibly difficult.
I'm concerned about it; last year, firing/driving the final dregs of steam in Poland, I took along an older nikon P&S. This year, I'm deciding between my M8, OR FILM. Some of what I did last year is no longer available this year; there really is a seminal change going on; I just try and record it; I'll leave it to others in the future to determine what is important or not.
Scary thought - forgoing digital for film...
JohnS.