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Dec 4, 2016 09:01:15 #
I was the person who inherited the family photos, because I found them to be wonderful. I was born late in my dad's life, so I had to ask who the people in the oldest pictures were. I got to look at my ancestors and hear stories about them. I got to see my mother when she was a girl, my dad when he was two, and my grandmother when she looked as beautiful as she was, and grandad wearing spats. I still have the negatives and a few hundred snaps that are carefully labeled in pencil. I will be very careful to pass them on to my nephew. He can see me at every stage of life, because Dad loved photography. Family matters.
Dec 4, 2016 09:14:18 #
Mac wrote:
The way digital storage has changed over the last few years that is a good question. Remember when floppy discs were the way to go? Now no computers have slots for them. There is no reason to think the same thing won't happen to DVDs, external hard drives, external solid state drives, clouds, etc. Maybe the best way is to print them out and keep then in an old shoe box.
I wouldn't worry too much. You can still buy brand new readers for the 1.44 floppies. As popular as today's recording media are there will be ways to access them for far longer then any of us will be around. Remember computer punch cards? There is a company that will read and digitize even those dinosaurs!
Dec 4, 2016 09:25:40 #
Keldon wrote:
I'm not trying to be rude but do you really believe that anyone other than the people actually in them will care about your photos? Unless you have shots of some monumental disaster or other world shaking event, no one will even bother looking at them. After all, how often do you ever look back on your photos or open an album to peruse whats inside, either on the computer or in a physical album? I know I very seldom look at mine after I've initially worked them and my family never does.
I look at photos from my family's collection, some dating to the late 1880's, at least once a year. A few really good photographers among my past relatives too, who had their own darkrooms and everything. And I am constantly putting together physical albums of my own work, which I also enjoy perusing - usually on lazy, rainy days.
I find it sad you do not get as excited about your own work, Keldon. And your family apparently even less so.
Watch less tv, peruse more photo albums!
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Dec 4, 2016 09:27:41 #
Juor wrote:
And so goes the song by Dennis Zager and Rick Evan... (show quote)
If the only place you have a backup of your photos is in a Dropbox account, well, I'm laughing already!
Dec 4, 2016 09:42:38 #
Not only Dropbox i also have about 10 external hard drives already full, the first one was a one GB and the one I'm using right now is a 3 TB, the ones already full are stored in a waterproof container, and that is because i once lost a laptop with photos on its hard drive caused by a water leak in the house.
So it's not only dropbox.I also lost some photos stored in a desktop computer that had the misfortune of getting sick with a virus, unfortunately, the geek doctors could not resuscitate it and it died taking my photos to its grave.
So it's not only dropbox.I also lost some photos stored in a desktop computer that had the misfortune of getting sick with a virus, unfortunately, the geek doctors could not resuscitate it and it died taking my photos to its grave.
Dec 4, 2016 09:48:38 #
Festus wrote:
If the only place you have a backup of your photos is in a Dropbox account, well, I'm laughing already!
Yeah. I left my Dropbox account sit idle for a full year and it disappeared from existence, along with all the files stored in it. (Fortunately nothing too important. I used it primarily to transfer images between iPad and desktop computer.) Although I don't mind using Dropbox, I would not consider it for long-term storage purposes.
Dec 4, 2016 10:01:08 #
My Grandkids pull out our photo albums at least 2-3 times a month between the 4 of them and there's no monumental deasasters in them.
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Dec 4, 2016 10:02:07 #
What I do is to buy photo books from Apple for any important events like birthdays, field trips, vacations . Each book costs about $30 and the product is exquisite. The paper is very high quality, the book is hardback and has a fly leaf and a cover slip for storage. My grandkids love them. Paper photography will long outlive our digital storage methods
Dec 4, 2016 10:50:11 #
Those who know how to draw, sculpt, tell stories, and sing songs will always be relevant. Most else is subject to change.
Dec 4, 2016 11:02:35 #
zigipha
Loc: north nj
unless you do something extraordinary, dont expect anyone past your grandkids to know about you...sad statement but that reality
Dec 4, 2016 11:18:03 #
started saving on a 5 1/4 inch disk, then moved to a 3.5 disk, then moved everything to tape drives, then to CD's then to DVD's now Ihave my pix on
external hard drives and the cloud. of course you can now save to blue ray, Then there is a new chip/box/drive, god knows what it is BUt its suppose to be able to store more than 1000 movies. Something about 3 dimensional storage. Then they are working on DNA storage , I guess you stick your finger in to the machine and it stores your info in your DNA? I have no idea.
So with all that said. I print my very best pix, and save them in archival sleeves. They will be around long after Im gone. Then IM sure a relative will see them and throw them away when they are cleaning house.
Which brings me to another point. My contracts now state that once a customers pix have been delivered, and signed for I am no longer responsible for storing those images. I do keep them but its good incase of a fire etc.
external hard drives and the cloud. of course you can now save to blue ray, Then there is a new chip/box/drive, god knows what it is BUt its suppose to be able to store more than 1000 movies. Something about 3 dimensional storage. Then they are working on DNA storage , I guess you stick your finger in to the machine and it stores your info in your DNA? I have no idea.
So with all that said. I print my very best pix, and save them in archival sleeves. They will be around long after Im gone. Then IM sure a relative will see them and throw them away when they are cleaning house.
Which brings me to another point. My contracts now state that once a customers pix have been delivered, and signed for I am no longer responsible for storing those images. I do keep them but its good incase of a fire etc.
Dec 4, 2016 11:18:43 #
zigipha wrote:
unless you do something extraordinary, dont expect anyone past your grandkids to know about you...sad statement but that reality
unless you do something extraordinary, dont expect anyone past your grandkids to know about you...sad statement but that reality
There are many people who are interested in learning about their forbearers beyond just their grandparents, hence the popularity of genealogical websites.
Dec 4, 2016 11:31:22 #
How about lifetime archival or 200 or more years. Check out the M-Disk, basically archive nearly forever, as long as there is something around that still reads DVDs.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag//artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html I use them all the time, no problems.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag//artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html I use them all the time, no problems.
Dec 4, 2016 11:41:41 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
There are many people who are interested in learning about their forbearers beyond just their grandparents, hence the popularity of genealogical websites.
Indeed - certainly true in my family, and at least one of my sons has the same interest, so he'll become the family archivist when we're gone.
Dec 4, 2016 11:45:09 #
Smudgey wrote:
How about lifetime archival or 200 or more years. Check out the M-Disk, basically archive nearly forever, as long as there is something around that still reads DVDs.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag//artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html I use them all the time, no problems.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag//artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html I use them all the time, no problems.
Excellent point, that's what I'm using for archive. Not cheap, but the available sizes (up to 100 GB now) are increasing, and the price per GB is dropping. Also, the majority of Bluray drives will read and write them.
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