sharing photos
Sep 21, 2022 12:03:16 #
therwol wrote:
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The DVDs are almost impossible to find now, but there are Blu Ray options.
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The DVDs are almost impossible to find now, but there are Blu Ray options.
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B&H and Best Buy have blank DVDs.
Target and Walmart have them, but possibly not many in the stores.
Sep 21, 2022 12:12:37 #
therwol wrote:
M Discs (carbon based) are said to have a life of 1000 years, but compared with electronic media, the cost is much higher per gigabyte. The DVDs are almost impossible to find now, but there are Blu Ray options. The main issue would be the available of Blu Ray drives in the future. They are available now. How long will that continue?
"Obsolete" media I've used:
140 KB 5.25" Apple floppies
400 KB 3.5" Sony hard case floppies
800 KB 3.5" Sony hard case floppies
1.2 MB 3.5" Sony hard case floppies
120 MB 3.5" Superdiscs
100 MB Zip disks
250 MB Zip disks
1 TB Jaz disks
650 MB CD
700 MB CD
4.7 GB DVD
8.5 GB DVD
It's sad, but data is ephemeral. I no longer have working drives for any of these except CD and DVD discs. Companies that do data transfers charge an arm and a leg.
Sep 21, 2022 12:13:35 #
Sep 21, 2022 12:17:50 #
therwol
Loc: USA
Longshadow wrote:
B&H and Best Buy have blank DVDs.
Target and Walmart have them, but possibly not many in the stores.
Target and Walmart have them, but possibly not many in the stores.
I meant blank M Disc DVDs. Sorry for the confusion. By the way, I transferred all of our home video to M Disc DVDs before they became very hard to find. Verbatim even took them off of their web site. I see that Amazon now has one brand available at $51.99 for 15 discs.
https://www.amazon.com/Millenniata-M-Disc-Permanent-Archival-Recordable/dp/B00XINJDDQ/ref=sxts_rp_s_1_0?content-id=amzn1.sym.14b5a3ec-ddf3-42f1-bf1e-8515f8d25a34%3Aamzn1.sym.14b5a3ec-ddf3-42f1-bf1e-8515f8d25a34&crid=20L85DY6OL8WH&cv_ct_cx=m+disc&keywords=m+disc&pd_rd_i=B00XINJDDQ&pd_rd_r=829bfc15-d5aa-4d6c-b094-2fd1086e1c09&pd_rd_w=n6wv1&pd_rd_wg=yxLX4&pf_rd_p=14b5a3ec-ddf3-42f1-bf1e-8515f8d25a34&pf_rd_r=11AX77AZPNRKQMJY7G0K&psc=1&qid=1663776883&sprefix=m+disc%2Caps%2C140&sr=1-1-f0029781-b79b-4b60-9cb0-eeda4dea34d6
Sep 21, 2022 14:52:43 #
Longshadow wrote:
One Drive is free if the total size of all images is less than 50Gb.
Is that 50GB or 5GB ... checking their site storage up to 5 GB is free
Sep 21, 2022 14:54:38 #
Followup ... from their site ...
Store your photos
With our free 5 GB plan you can store 2,500 photos.1 With a Microsoft 365 subscription you get 1 TB of storage which is enough to hold 500,000 photos.1
Store your photos
With our free 5 GB plan you can store 2,500 photos.1 With a Microsoft 365 subscription you get 1 TB of storage which is enough to hold 500,000 photos.1
Sep 21, 2022 14:55:34 #
I have used three different methods (1) Dropbox, (2) Google Photo and (3) Shutterfly, depending on what the recipient wants to do with the photos and the recipients' skill level with computers (not photography).
Sep 21, 2022 15:15:45 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I just started doing the same thing. I'm using DropBox and it's working out well for me
Sep 21, 2022 16:24:10 #
Bogin Bob wrote:
Is that 50GB or 5GB ... checking their site storage up to 5 GB is free
Yes, 5Gb.
I was corrected earlier in the thread.
Sep 21, 2022 21:37:12 #
bbq4270 wrote:
I am restoring a few hundred old family photos left to me as the executor of my parents' estate. I need to share each restored jpeg. file to each sibling (7 members) who reside throughout the USA and the only practical way I can think of to accomplish this task is via a website. Can someone recommend the cheapest website build available which you have had success, or recommend a better way of distributing these restored photos? Any positive feedback will be appreciated. Thanks.
I share photos. By putting them in Dropbox and then emailing a link to people who are interested in them. This does not require the recipients to have Dropbox. If you don’t have Dropbox you can get up to 2 GB free.
Bud
Sep 21, 2022 21:43:25 #
therwol wrote:
I meant blank M Disc DVDs. Sorry for the confusi... (show quote)
Ahhhh.
The new thing that was the latest and greatest is already disappearing.
Imagine that.....
Sep 21, 2022 21:46:44 #
delder
Loc: Maryland
OP only mentioned 7 siblings.
A package of 10 USB 2 moderate thumb drives can run $20 or so
About $2 each.
100 can be had in bulk for about $160.00
A package of 10 USB 2 moderate thumb drives can run $20 or so
About $2 each.
100 can be had in bulk for about $160.00
Sep 22, 2022 00:00:46 #
Longshadow wrote:
Another reason why the cloud is good, they take care of that.
Another reason why the cloud is good, they take care of that.
Problem is we have a lot of sunny cloudless days here in CA. ;)
Sep 22, 2022 08:31:19 #
JD750 wrote:
Problem is we have a lot of sunny cloudless days here in CA. ;)
Wow, must be a pain scheduling the uploads.
Sep 22, 2022 13:27:02 #
bbq4270
Loc: Blainville, Quebec Canada
CHG_CANON wrote:
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