Re: How to digitize precious photos?

In article <vrG_e.13428$L15.5591@trndny01>, jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx says...
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> <PunishSpammers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >>
> > I think you are right on this as long as the trasnfers get better and
> > better. So far in audio we have lost a lot of data on older digital
> > recordings. Many factors here but lets just call if fade, bits are gone,
> > high end suffers, etc.
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> While it probably is impossible to improve the files, once scanned, the
> inverse certainly IS true: the condition of the original pictures is
> currently about as good as it will ever be. They will only deteriorate over
> time. Might as well scan them now.
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> I saw a woman in New Orleans seeing her home for the first time since the
> flooding began. First thing she cried over was the family album--or what
> was left of it. It was as though her past memories had been taken from her.
> Had she kept copies stored off-site it would have made it possible to
> restore her memories, to a certain extent.
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> I never knew of a single person that stored their negatives in a
> geographically distant location, but there are tons of people that are
> swapping disks of family shots with relatives, to ensure that other copies
> will survive. At least for the short-term, the practice seems to have
> benefits. No way to really know if digitization will really keep the images
> alive for the long haul, but at least people are attempting to preserve them
> as best they can. Before digital, preservation of family photos was
> something that was not even on the radar screen.
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> Even if having extra copies of images does not ultimately help, it certainly
> cannot hurt--and I suspect that, even if a lot of images do become lost to
> the ravages of time, there will be a lot of them that will survive.
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I keep meaning to get around to scanning all the slides I have but I keep
wasting my time here instead. ;) But on a serious note keeping your
slides or negs in a safe is a good idea. I have a small watertight, heat
resistant safe that was pretty cheap. I am also slowly scanning all my
stuff on quality CDs. Don't use the cheapos. Offsite is a good idea as
well. Now that I think about it offsite is really the way to go for me
and my wife since we travel quite a bit. Now if we could just get the
Italians to get more high speed internet we would be in great shape. :)
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