Topic: Storing Original Prints As Best Option - A Discussion Upfront! Well Kept Prints Are By leaps and bounds this is UNEQUIVOCABLY The Best Option! Any and All Atempts To Explain Doing So Is Best Is To Be 'Preaching To The Choir'.
My Photographic Skils Come Out Of Large Format Cameras And Sporting Darkroom Tans. Give me properly processed 4x5 negatives and fibre based prints or Cibachrome Color Prints and I'll be the Most Happy guy around!!!!! Having established THAT data point! :-) I have to accept the photos in this box for what they mostly are. CHEAP Color Prints from the late Seventies to Early Nineties. By Definition that makes them NON-Archival. The later stuff will take a fair bit longer to self destruct, but self destruct they will. They have also lived a semi-rough life in the environs of my Grand Mothers home. Loved, but not well stored or temperature protected for the most part. The clock is ticking on these pictures. I would like to have a Non Computer Based Solution to 'Saving' these images and distributing them. I actually have one, but the agreggate cost might be daunting. I can take the Digital Files I am making and print them at the local Professional Photo Lab we have in this town. It's actually a semi- major player nationally and draws clients globally. I used to work there 7 or 8 years ago. Great People. For anything beyond snapshots EVERYTHING I need printed goes to them. Period. They aren't overwhelmingly expensive, but their Quality is Many Orders Of Magnitude Better than using Walgreens or Walmart or Snapfish or Whatever. It would likely cost 150+ dollars a copy just for each set of prints, but I have worked out a process of using Photoshop to divide an 8x10 into 5x8 halves showing each photo and an associated data block showing the available info for each photo. Going this route would buy in to the absolute best printing papers and high quality printing processes to give the longest living color prints I am likely to reasonably encounter. The high res scans would 'hold' more absolute photographic info, but the prints would have the benefit of only needing photon's and breathing people to be accessible in the future! The good ole Mark One Eyeball. Technology Extrordinaire! The likely availability of light and people 5-10 years from now is statistically pretty hopeful! The certainty of cd's, dvd's, or HD's a Decade out might be more squishy! LOL The issue for me is that 2 sets of prints and associated appropriate storage materials looks like a 500 dollar minimum buy in. It is definitely a goal to have this print set, but I don't see how to make it yet. Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
