Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, I agree. I digitized my film images and passed them on to my sons as CDs. They may never look at them again, but, if the need arises, at least one of the three should have them available. One son, who recently remarried, used them to introduce his new wife to his childhood, along with family members. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] thousands of street photographers undevelopednegatives found after her death > Jim Shulman wrote: > >>This is precisely why I fear the passing of film: can you imagine anyone >>finding these as digital images in a storage locker? Perhaps as a stack >>of >>ROMs (good luck playing them thirty or forty years after being burned) or >>an >>old computer's hard drive (and good luck booting it up thirty or forty >>years >>in the future.) > > OTOH I've distributed master copies of my digital images to several > responsible (and tech-savvy) family members who live in widely separated > parts of the planet. I can't do that with my film images. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >