Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] from the shoebox
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed Jan 18 05:26:53 2006
References: <8e.35dd4e20.30fefdf9@aol.com> <540B3641-46D4-4902-9E3E-DFBF79B2A642@interlink.es> <43CE038D.3090300@adrenaline.com>

Scott,
Kodak is trying out a business venture of high speed scanning of prints.
They have a advanced beta-store doing scans for fifty cents each.  The claim
to fame is the ability to stack up the prints in a feed bin and just let the
machine run.  Time will tell.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 1/18/06, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote:
>
> I also really enjoyed these images. What got me into photography
> a few years back was, yes, my grandparent's shoeboxes full of
> negs and old prints of my now deceased mother.
>
> I wonder if our young folk will discover old hard drives and CD's
> of images up in dusty old attics and thus rediscover in small part
> a bit of the past.
>
> I've thought there would be a business opportunity to provide a
> photo archiving site that featured serious, life long or even multi-
> generational  archiving - sort of an Iron Mountain (secure business
> document storage) kind of business, but for consumer photos (the
> consumers that could afford such a service).
>
> A good name for such a business might be "shoebox.com" :-)
>
> Scott
>
> Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote:
>
> >
> > On 18/01/2006, at 3:12, SonC@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> I had a wonderful moment recently.  I opened a big box from my
> >> parents home
> >> and found some  pictures.
> >
> >
> > World has changed a bit since these pictures were taken.
> > It's marvelous having that little windows to past times where we
> > come, it helps to do not loose the bearing.
> >
> > Great.
> >
> >
> >
> > Saludos
> > -----------------------------------------
> > http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/
> >
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com) ([Leica] from the shoebox)
Message from lmc at interlink.es (Luis Miguel Castañeda) ([Leica] from the shoebox)
Message from scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin) ([Leica] from the shoebox)