Negs or Photo's

Mannesty
Posted 30/01/2011 - 13:39 Link
Smeggypants wrote:
Mannesty wrote:
I'm going through just such an exercise right now, except I'm scanning my slides & negatives.

After they're scanned, they're binned.

I've got room in my cupboards for loads of other junk now.

PS: I have 4 separate copies of my pictures & videos, one copy is about 15 miles away from my house. Only an earthquake, war, or similar disaster will destroy all of them. If that happens, I won't be in any position to care.
madness!!
Maybe, but how many of your digital images do you print and place in a presentation wallet? I'm guessing none.

I'm happy using just one medium, digital, of which I can make as many copies as I like/need and there won't be any arguments as to who gets what after I'm gone.
Peter E Smith - flickr Photostream
Edited by Mannesty: 30/01/2011 - 13:40
Don
Posted 30/01/2011 - 15:13 Link
I'd set my d-slr up on a tripod/copystand, and photograph each photo, then box up the originals for proper storage.

between my Pentax camera, Aperture and digital storage. Apertures faces feature works well BTW I got a huge archive from Gerri's dad for Christmas and it took Aperture 3 (Iphoto works just as well) one night to identify with great accuracy all the people in the photos. I clicked on Gerri (we won't mention how old she is) and Aperture successfully identified her in old yellowed photos right down to when she was four years old. Only a couple instances where it identified her (more recent photos) as her Mother... Picked my boy out from 6 months to six years, no mistakes.
A couple archival photo albums...
a few binders with archival neg sleeves...
some cardboard boxes...
you'll have it sorted properly over a weekend.
Fired many shots. Didn't kill anything.
Smeggypants
Posted 30/01/2011 - 15:43 Link
Indeed. I would trust film far more than any modern digital methods.
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