Re: Don is done!!!

On 13 Sep 2006 04:22:55 -0700, "TJ" <timjfisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On top of what you've done, I will probably export each edited TIF in
high quality JPEG

That's the next step for me. After editing (removing dust and
scratches, correcting color balance, etc.) I'll eventually end up with
high quality JPEGs as well. The idea is to fit them all on only a few
DVDs which I can always carry around with me.

This is all actually a part of a long term project for me. I call it
"digitizing my life". I moved around a lot in the past and as a
consequence inadvertently lost a fair amount of personal records along
the way so the plan is to be able to carry as much as possible on me.

Apparently this is also a part of academic research and is known as a
"personal petabyte". The calculation is, all the information a person
accumulates over a lifetime (text, images, sounds, etc) amounts to
about a petabyte of data.

and upload to Flickr for all the family to see. Now
that they've implemented geotagging, it'll be very cool to tag every
photo with a location, in addition to descriptive tags, to provide a
real context to each photo. I'm very excited!

I'm doing the same thing after I've gone digital! I've got a GPS and
note down the location of every photo.

As a point of interest, my first digital camera (Kodak 260) had an
option of having the GPS connected directly and automatically storing
the longitude and latitude with the image. I never made use of this
because the cabling was a bit clumsy (my favorite hobby: recreational
cycling) but I think it's only a matter of time - if it hasn't
happened already - before we see a digital camera with a built-in GPS.

Someday when [hopefully]
they increase the maximum photo size and add TIF support, I'll upload
the originals. That should provide me an additional backup source.

I was thinking about the very same thing! It's a "twofer" (two for the
price of one): back-up and publication. The main problem is image size
but, as you say, that is bound to change especially with various DSLs
becoming more prevalent so the up/down-loading doesn't take forever.

Thanks again Don!

My pleasure. And the best of luck with your scanning, Tim!

Don.
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Relevant Pages

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