Quotes I believe in....
Apr 4, 2024 03:00:13 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
BebuLamar wrote:
But the digital data is something you can preserve forever not the slides nor the prints.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
yeah, I have been in a lot of second hand stores and thrift shops and while I have seen a lot of boxes of old photographs I have never seen a box of cds, SD cards, labeled "family photos" or the "data" written down on a piece of paper to be reconstructed exactly. More likely not at all.
Apr 4, 2024 03:17:10 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
Longshadow wrote:
Simply keep migrating them to the "latest" storage media.......
Simply keep migrating them to the latest storage media is handy if you know how to do that. There are innumerable folks whose images get no farther than the back of their camera or smart phone. These images and the ones on SD cards in drawers are destined to be digital dust.
Apr 4, 2024 07:29:06 #
RodeoMan wrote:
yeah, I have been in a lot of second hand stores and thrift shops and while I have seen a lot of boxes of old photographs I have never seen a box of cds, SD cards, labeled "family photos" or the "data" written down on a piece of paper to be reconstructed exactly. More likely not at all.
Apr 4, 2024 07:29:35 #
RodeoMan wrote:
Simply keep migrating them to the latest storage media is handy if you know how to do that. There are innumerable folks whose images get no farther than the back of their camera or smart phone. These images and the ones on SD cards in drawers are destined to be digital dust.
Apr 4, 2024 07:36:53 #
RodeoMan wrote:
Simply keep migrating them to the latest storage media is handy if you know how to do that. There are innumerable folks whose images get no farther than the back of their camera or smart phone. These images and the ones on SD cards in drawers are destined to be digital dust.
That is because they don't want to preserve them and honestly most of my pictures are not worth to be preserved. But if you want to preserve a digital image you can not so with prints or slides.
Apr 4, 2024 07:39:04 #
RodeoMan wrote:
yeah, I have been in a lot of second hand stores and thrift shops and while I have seen a lot of boxes of old photographs I have never seen a box of cds, SD cards, labeled "family photos" or the "data" written down on a piece of paper to be reconstructed exactly. More likely not at all.
And the people who owned those boxes of old photographs didn't want them. They are old and faded. Not even worth a few pennies in the thift shop.
Apr 4, 2024 08:07:03 #
BebuLamar wrote:
And the people who owned those boxes of old photographs didn't want them. They are old and faded. Not even worth a few pennies in the thrift shop.
Sad for ancestral family photos..... I keep mine.
But even I wouldn't want someone else's old family photos.
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