Rick, We went to my 93 year old aunt's funeral in Boston this weekend. We spent time with my cousin, her daughter, looking at old photos. There were no slides, but plenty of snapshots with old Brownie cameras. There was lots of trash, but some pearls too. I think we'll go back out this summer and shoot some copies. (This side of my family always did photos and I appreciate it now.) (I saw a little album of 5 or 6 - 2.5 inch square B&W photos. I recognized myself at 6 years old, taken on a central Illinois farm. Also pictures of my brother at 1.5 years and my sister at 6 months on the same farm... all taken by my aunt on a hot day.) Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My mother is having an (ahem) advanced birthday next week, and I went digging > around for some old photos. > > Well, there are thousands and thousands of photos in this house, prints here, > slides there, the negatives someplace else. Slides from about 1992 onwards > are fairly systematically filed in slide pages in loose leaf notebooks, but > there are still scads of prints and negs, because sometimes (for some reason) > I shot print film. > > This reminded me that a key advantage of digital is that it is tidy. Instead > of shoeboxes and closets and drawers full of photos, things are neatly stored > on hard drives, catalogued by date in Lightroom. > > It also reminded me of a key disadvantage of digital. I pulled out slides > and negs I shot in 1965, and they're a bit dusty and faded, but viewable with > a light box and loupe, and printable. Will anybody be able to view my DNGs > in 2051? > > Then there was the weird time travel of old family photos, and shots from old > family vacations and holidays and homes. > > Makes me feel old. I think I'll go to bed. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
