[Leica] from the shoebox

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Yep, keep making the prints for posterity and grandmas and  
refrigerators. We have a literal shoebox of photos thanks to my  
Luddite wife. Most of my family snaps are digital, and everyone else  
in the family shoots digital now. Every couple of weeks, I run  
through iPhoto printing snaps for the shoebox.

On the other hand, aren't places like this and gallery.leica- 
users.org just the most ass-kicking shoebox ever?

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies


On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Sonny showed:
> Subject: [Leica] from the shoebox
>> I had a wonderful moment recently.  I  opened a big box from my  
>> parents home
>> and found some  pictures.
>>
>> http://www.sonc.com/grandparents/<<<<<
>
> Hi Sonny,
>
> Magical moment "happy snaps." They all were in those days :-) your  
> ancestors shown in these pictures were good old fashion folks and  
> pictures were as much of a miracle to them as many of us look at  
> digital cameras and printers today. :-)
>
> Those of us with the good fortune to find a family shoebox of  
> pictures, in many cases a gold mine of wonderful moments of where  
> and who we came from show wonderful times of their lives as hard as  
> it may have been working and surviving. But they damn well did  
> because they were a different breed to many of the whiners we hear  
> from these days who want everything done for them. (Sorry getting  
> off track)
>
> Where list members wring their hands about not having negatives and  
> other worries about digital output should put those fears away.  
> Edit the work, select the cream and make prints!!! Put them in an  
> album or "shoebox"  with the full intention long after they become  
> dead and dust under ground, hopefully some member of their family  
> in the future will be just as excited as we are when we find a  
> "shoebox" full of old prints.
>
> In our family we've found several albums from before WW1 all shot  
> in the UK brought to Canada by my dad or mom. Faded for sure, but  
> still prints to see. Did we find any negatives?  Not a one any where!
>
> But we have prints, if others in the family want a print I flatbed  
> scan with an Epson Perfection 4990 and beautiful reproductions  
> looking better than the original in the album.
>
> So those making waves about digital and no negatives forget it!  
> Relax and make the best quality prints you can on the best archival  
> paper you can get your hands on. Then make your shoebox prints!:-)
>
> Instead of whining about technology and no negs " all this will  
> fade" one should be far more concerned about making prints for  
> those of the future because the longer you sit around at the key  
> board whining about fading, no negs etc, the greater the chance  
> you'll bite the bullet and you wont leave anything at all! :-(
>
> And that my friends is the greatest danger we face instead of  
> whinnying about no negs.
>
> So get yer butt ends in motion, make prints and think about the  
> legacy you're leaving for future generations!
>
> Besides who the hell will care a hundred years from now? ;-) Yeah I  
> know every living family member at that time. ;-)
>
> ted
>
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