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Frankly most of the problem could be fixed by screening what you put into long term storage. If photo looks bad now it won't look any better in 10 years!
by ilyt 4y ago
Frankly most of the problem could be fixed by screening what you put into long term storage. If photo looks bad now it won't look any better in 10 years!
- eitland 4y agoHere's the thing: There exist plenty relatively high quality photos from Christmas and other family gatherings. Photos of ordinary things like cutting grass or milking cows however are really few and far between. Which means some things will forever be hard to explain to my kids. I keep almost everything except duplicates because I can always delete them later.
- vr46 4y agoNo, that's exactly the wrong take in a different way. A photograph may has intrinsic qualities aside from technical ones, and time will change how you or others feel about the picture. And for the technical issues on top of that, technology has certainly allowed me to extract more from older photos. I suspect film scanning tech has topped out, but the processing on computer has improved slightly, and I'm able to eke pretty much all the useful information there is out of a negative or transparency. RAW processors too have improved a lot in ten years, I revisited a photo story from 2009 and pulled out a few previously unseen pictures and 2022 Capture One smoked the Lightroom 5 processor. The camera has been superseded by 2 or 3 generations (a Canon 5DII) but you could not tell. Combining technological advances with a picture of something or someone that might not be around in ten years and you'll be glad to have it. Maybe start culling pictures from 20 years ago now instead? :D