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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 14, 2013 - 10:36am PT
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They've been in a closet of one house or another for the last 35 years, but I'm finally scanning the best and then throwing them all in the trash. I'm saving someone from a big, boring, time consuming job after I die.
I sure did take a lot of sunset, tree, rock and flower shots!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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I'll probably pare down from 4000 photos to maybe 400. Once they are digital, they are all going to the trash.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jul 14, 2013 - 11:03am PT
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If any are really special, keep it. Film will outlast digital media (no it's not permanent) and your family 50 years from now will be glad you did!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 11:26am PT
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I'll be dead in 50 years and no one will care. Ellen, my daughter will be 65 and I'll bet she'll have no desire whatsoever to scan slides. In fact, In 50 years, the technology to scan a slide will probably not exist.
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Dr. Christ
Mountain climber
State of Mine
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Jul 14, 2013 - 11:49am PT
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I'm saving someone from a big, boring, time consuming job after I die.
One of the best things I did after my dad died was go through the box of old photos. Many of them were lame and boring... but even those meant something.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 11:54am PT
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I'm saving the good ones. Ellen will have hundreds of photos to look at but, rocks, flowers, sunsets and tree shots I thought were cool 85 years before, will be of little interest to her, I'm sure.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 12:01pm PT
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Max racking up for the Zodiac in the fall of 1977.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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you might be right, 50 years from now you may not be able to scan a slide, but you will be able to hold it up to a sunny window and see it.
Don't underestimate the power of the mundane.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:23pm PT
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....it was taken in the age before the river had eroded the floor of the Valley into a flat flood plane...
as for your images... certainly do what you like, but do consider how you view an image's value and what you had in mind originally when creating the image, and then the other values of an image.
From a creative artistic point of view, those images, or pieces of them, might be of value to others... they just need to be available. Our concepts of "copyright" and intellectual property (and artistic property?) are limited to our own use, but when you expand that to the larger creative community you cannot tell if the stuff you have is any good or not.
In the coming era images are collections of bits, digitized and dispersed in the larger digital storage universe... keeping original copies on film isn't such a bad thing, someone someday may have a use for them... if you care to have any connection into the distant future, index them and keep a hard copy list of the index with them...
let them be passed on and used for things we can't imagine.
Why throw them out?
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 12:41pm PT
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I'm not a keep it around in case kind of guy. I don't want to leave more than a small box of stuff when I die.
I'm scanning the best photos and keeping those, I don't see any need to keep the slide.
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Gene
climber
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:49pm PT
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Mark,
For me at least, there is something very special about holding old prints that I find much more rewarding than viewing a scanned image on a monitor. This is especially true of old family pictures. No matter how good the scan or the quality of the printer, something is lost in translation. The same applies to old letters and such. I have scanned many but primarily as a backup. Nothing beats the original.
That said, there is probably no good reason to archive every pic you ever took.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:49pm PT
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scan them all (I know, big work) and let them loose on the internet to be used by anyone for anything...
or not...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:51pm PT
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eKat-
Why don't you check out the website Find a Grave and put up memorials to your ancestors along with scans of their photos there? Those are going to be part of a digital archive or whatever future media comes along in the future and it's maintained by them and not yourself. Ancestry.com is also a good place to store images, although you have to pay a subscription at least until you get them up there. Once they're digitized, you can even print your own family history book using Ancestry's software. Ancestry's info is backed up in underground vaults in Salt Lake City that are said to be able to withstand a nuclear attack.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 12:58pm PT
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Nope, trash!
If anyone ever thinks my contributions to climbing are significant enough, they can contact Ellen if I'm dead and she will have the photos on a disc. That's as good as its going to get.
Beyond that, the trash goes out on Thursday morning.
Besides, I'm doing at least as good of a job scanning the slides as anyone wanting to put them in a magazine or book will do.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 14, 2013 - 01:34pm PT
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yup. trash. lighten the load!
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jul 14, 2013 - 01:34pm PT
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That's my retirement project... Someday when I retire... Scanning and tossing.
I've started on the project with a Nikon scanner, and it's tedious work but I am pleased with the results:
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 01:37pm PT
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I'm borrowing a Nikon Coolscan from Max, who is borrowing it from a neighbor. So far, the results are very nice. It does take time though.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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Jul 14, 2013 - 02:49pm PT
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You never do know who might come along 40-something years later, just hoping to find a picture of someone she never had a chance to know. (And, no, I'm not implying anything there!)
One of the most touching photos sent to me of Dolt was located by Natalie Sherrick online. She had Googled "Tahquitz" and just happened upon it. The photo was a casual group shot, but it captured the folks in it in that unique way that only a combination of a group of personalities can.
Consider donating them so that they can be archived. Any number of the folks who look up to you would be blessed (and probably really psyched) if given the opportunity to see the world through your eyes.
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Trad is Rad
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo California
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Jul 14, 2013 - 02:53pm PT
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You should send all the good ones to me, Id love to have the originals just for shts and giggles. I find the retro photos to be full of awesomness and stoke.
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Johnny K.
climber
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Jul 14, 2013 - 03:07pm PT
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What happens if technology bites the dust one day and there is no way to look at digital formats?Nothing can replace original photos imo.
As mentioned earlier,there is something special about original prints,especially with handwritten messages/notes on the backings.I was very fortunate to have many original photos dating back many many generations.I will pass those on to the future generations as well adding my own.
Scanning original prints to digital form is a great idea.Though,I personally would never throw them away,I put the originals in a fire/waterproof container for safekeeping to pass on when the time comes.
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