In our digital picture age are physical photo histories being lost?
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nope. I still take film pictures.
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no! not at all! at least not of the great pioneers of the art. perhapsmany family photo histories are being lost, but that is more due to lack of care than because of the 'digital age'.
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Only when you figure film and photos age and fade, while digital ones don't. You can always reprint a digital photo.
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No, not at all. In fact. Physical photo histories are collected now and put on line or on disc and distributed much more widely than has ever been possible.
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the sad thing is that our "digital photos" will someday be a lost generation of photos, because they are being printed on cheap, short term paper, not to mention that most photos are sotred digitall and may someday be past the point of being able to be opened.. its sad really...
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myabe not. everyone is shooting them
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Even with digital, photos ae being lost. There will soon be no opeing up an old cardboard box and going thru old photos, and remembering what was, or what the good old days looked like for your family. There is something 'colder' about the digital photos. There is no curling up wiht a photo album. IT's more staring into a screen. And if people don't print them out and they don't keep photo media up dated, then they will be lost. Will we have to pay to have our ancient dvds transferred to whatever will ber new in the future? THis wasn't necessary with photos. THey just were, always waiting for someone to find and cherish, remember...
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There is a company that will preserve all manner of things called iforem at http://www.iforem.com - You pay once and they invest the money in an irrevocable trust for you, and then keep the technology hot to make it all work. Found them on this blog, http://www.deathproof.com. At least this way I dont have to go through the hassle of changing formats time after time. Hope that helps.
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