Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, I am also going through the process of digitizing old photos and slides. My kids all work with computers and are much more computer-literate than I will ever be. My intent is to provide them with CDs and let them finalize their own record of the photos that are important to each of them. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:25 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Family pictures and good cameras > > On Jul 1, 2007, at 12:35 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > >> One of my projects for 2007 has been to digitize all of my parents' old >> family photographs and make them accessible to relatives who aren't ever >> going to see and touch the physical albums that my mother has so >> carefully >> organized and classified. There are a lot of negatives; I try to spend >> 90 >> minutes each day working on them. > > Brian, > > You have touched on a hot topic. It seems that every photographer past a > certain age is digitizing accumulated files of slides and negatives. I > have over 4000 digitized photos in my collection now and the files hardly > seem touched. The big problem for me, other than the time it takes for > scanning, is the method of presentation to the interested relatives. How > do you show off the pictures? Albums, no that would be too bulky. CDs, > that's convenient but few of my relatives are computer literate enough, > or have the patience to plow though a CD which may contain hundreds of > photos. Blurb type books, OK for a special event like a 50th anniversary > but far too expensive to distribute. > > Right now my digitized collection resides in a file of CDs and DVDs. They > are a family's life in photography. But what do I do with them? > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >