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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
