Are we that much better?
Jul 21, 2012 21:19:56 #
I got a box of 4 x5 glass negatives on eBay. Printed them and this is what I got. The dress is 1900 so they must be over 100yrs old. Will sthe stff on our computers last that long?
Jul 21, 2012 21:22:58 #
Great old pictures. I hope to be round long enough to answer that question. LOL.
Jul 21, 2012 22:33:07 #
wilsondl2 wrote:
I got a box of 4 x5 glass negatives on eBay. Printed them and this is what I got. The dress is 1900 so they must be over 100yrs old. Will sthe stff on our computers last that long?
That's a real concern of historians. How much of our culture wil make it into the future?
Jul 22, 2012 05:50:13 #
donrent
Loc: Punta Gorda , Fl
I'd betcha a dollar to a donut they are a lot older than a hundred years old.. My guess is closer to the 1880's....
Jul 22, 2012 07:37:31 #
donrent wrote:
I'd betcha a dollar to a donut they are a lot older than a hundred years old.. My guess is closer to the 1880's....
I agree. Those rocks look really old.
Jul 22, 2012 08:01:10 #
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Jul 22, 2012 09:29:37 #
fotosteve
Loc: Cincinnati,Oh
Love the vintage images. When I see them I can almost put myself in that time. As if I really did experience these older events in time. What a find you have. Now lets make art out of them. A filter here, a dodge and burn there. But don't forget to always maintain the original image, as this is art in it's purest infant state.
Jul 22, 2012 11:07:51 #
donrent
Loc: Punta Gorda , Fl
"I agree. Those rocks look really old"
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I am trying very very hard to make believe I did'nt read that ..... :roll:
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I am trying very very hard to make believe I did'nt read that ..... :roll:
Jul 22, 2012 11:48:32 #
donrent wrote:
"I agree. Those rocks look really old"
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I am trying very very hard to make believe I did'nt read that ..... :roll:
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I am trying very very hard to make believe I did'nt read that ..... :roll:
Ah, entering the land of make-believe. I'm a semi-permanent resident there.
Jul 22, 2012 11:58:46 #
Stuff like that is fun to look at but I'll take the new technology thanks.
I used to shoot exclusively B&W and did my own film developing and printing and remember thinking how awsome my stuff looked.
Looking at most of that now and it really looks like crap.
Just because something is old does not at all mean it was better then.
I would much rather watch TV on my 50" plasma in HD then on the tiny B&W Philco my parents first bought.
Will my digital images last 100 or more years?
Don't know, but don't really care much either.
If some bird shot I took in 2010 starts to deteriorate in 80 years what the hell do I care? I'll be dead anyway.
I used to shoot exclusively B&W and did my own film developing and printing and remember thinking how awsome my stuff looked.
Looking at most of that now and it really looks like crap.
Just because something is old does not at all mean it was better then.
I would much rather watch TV on my 50" plasma in HD then on the tiny B&W Philco my parents first bought.
Will my digital images last 100 or more years?
Don't know, but don't really care much either.
If some bird shot I took in 2010 starts to deteriorate in 80 years what the hell do I care? I'll be dead anyway.
Jul 22, 2012 12:04:16 #
Swamp Gator wrote:
If some bird shot I took in 2010 starts to deteriorate in 80 years what the hell do I care? I'll be dead anyway.
Well, that's pretty pessimistic! :D
Jul 22, 2012 12:04:55 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Well, that's pretty pessimistic! :D
Swamp Gator wrote:
If some bird shot I took in 2010 starts to deteriorate in 80 years what the hell do I care? I'll be dead anyway.
Well, that's pretty pessimistic! :D
How so? It's simply a fact of life.
Jul 22, 2012 12:38:12 #
Digital images last as long as the technology to read them does. As technology changes, you may need to migrate your images to the new platforms so you can still retrieve them. This would be changes in both hardware and software. If you have a digital image you want to save forever, the best advice is to print it.
Jul 22, 2012 13:35:34 #
I've got boxes of old photos like this. A slew of people with nothing to identify them and shots of landscapes from who knows where. They were important to somebody.
If my images outlast me, on whatever medium, that's something I won't know about. A legacy of sorts. Maybe someone will look at them and wonder. I can't scribble a description of who or where on the back of a jpg image but I can embed data.
If my images outlast me, on whatever medium, that's something I won't know about. A legacy of sorts. Maybe someone will look at them and wonder. I can't scribble a description of who or where on the back of a jpg image but I can embed data.
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