years old or so. What do I do with these to preserve them and send them on to future generations? Everyone likes to see who they're related to, you know?
2007-10-14 13:42:20 · 5 answers · asked by jacquie 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
First take them into a place to get them laminated (it preserves most photos) and make sure you take it to a place who knows what they're doing and will tell you what will work or not. They may even offer a service where they can scan them for you and put them on a disk for you so that you can print out more copies.
2007-10-14 14:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wasn't going to post an answer because I am not an expert in photo preservation, but al lI can say is - check into this very carefully before you have anything precious laminated. I sure wouldn't do it. It just gives you one MORE thing to worry about going bad. I've seen laminations gone bad after just a couple fo years and it's not a pretty site. Maybe there are some people out there who can give you a 100 year guarantee or something, but - well tread carefully is all I will say.
2007-10-14 23:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd scan them into the computer, then move them from there to CDs or DVDs, and some of those little flashdrives. And if you can find a website that'll let you store lots of photos online, use that, too.
Also, if you have a photo printer, print them out on some very good quality photo paper. That might be a bit expensive, though, if it'd use up alot of ink and paper.
Putting them online, on cds/dvds and flashdrives (doing all of them..not just one) might be your best bet. That way, even if you lose the original photos, you'll at least have copies.
Edit: Oops, thanks PixdeeArtist..you made a good point that I forgot--I agree that it's a good idea to transfer the images to newer media ASAP, for the reason you gave.
heh, floppy disks..I can just imagine if I live to be an old man and have grandkids, telling them things like "When ah was a kid, we didn't have these fancy memory things. Our computers have floppy disks that were actually FLOPPY..And Nintendo was only for nerds or geeks, till Sega , Sonic the Hedgehog and Mortal Kombat made games cool!" LOL
2007-10-14 20:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think scanning them and keeping them on disk is a good thing (as long as you remember to transfer them when media changes, alot of people have stuff on the old fashioned floppy disks that they wish they could get to).
Another thought is that you could make a book, like on picaboo.com or shutterfly.com. Some of them have family tree type themes which could be interesting. I think mypublisher.com has one like that.
2007-10-14 21:03:20 · answer #4 · answered by PixdeeArtist 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Check for information at archivalmethods.com and ilfordphoto.com.
2007-10-15 12:40:22 · answer #5 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋