| Joined: | Thu Apr 19th, 2012 |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Posts: | 4424 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
I am about to embark of a large task of photographing much of my collection of slides and negatives*.
What is to be done with the old material, destroy it to save space, or put it in boxes and store as backup.
*Duplicates, poor IQ and boring images excepted.
I've kept all my negatives and trannies ( and edited movie film rolls) in sealed boxes in the loft. Not ideal ....but am I really going to use or work them up ever again??? I've got selected prints that were used in exhibitions and portfolios. EVERYTHING has been digitised. Sadly, much was done years ago when scanning quality was not as good as today. But I ain't doing it again.
All the digitised images are on external hard drives and we are working through them making hard decisions about individual worth...a little weeding so to speak to keep meaningful searching the archive sensible.
Of course all my commercial work is stored on other hard drives...in case customers coming knocking again
Last edited on Sun Dec 23rd, 2018 17:52 by Eric
____________________
Eric