[Leica] Re: Family pictures and good cameras

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

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