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My Mom never left! She has a cell phone but still uses an old point and click film camera (at least it has autowind and doesn’t use the old lever to advance the

My Mom never left! She has a cell phone but still uses an old point and click film camera (at least it has autowind and doesn’t use the old lever to advance the film). We keep trying to convince her that paying for film and development isn’t such a good thing, but she is set in her ways. The grandkids at least are amazed when she brings it out. She even has a laptop and a desktop computer where she could store the photos. She has a kindle, a tablet, and a phone. She can email, text, FaceTime, etc. But she simply won’t take pictures with a phone.

elzbardico 3y ago
In 50 years probably the only photos your kids will have from today will be her grandma prints.
- ghaff 3y ago
  I've had a couple of photo books made but I print very little. No room on the walls and I don't really need more physical "stuff." And while various things can happen to physical prints, I expect that most families don't really have a way to systematically pass down digital artifacts.
  - irrational 3y ago
    We have about 3 terabytes of family photos and videos. They are stored both on a local hardrive and on a cloud backup. They are probably the most irreplaceable thing we own. But I haven’t really figured out how to make them available to all the kids at some point. They know about the physical drive, but I’m not sure how to pass on the account information for the cloud backup. I don’t really want that information in my will right now since I’m not ready for the kids to access it and they have copies of the will.
    - ghaff 3y ago
      Assuming you're willing to share the photos themselves today, probably some sort of rotating trading of USB drives? Provides redundancy too and 8TB or whatever drives are pretty cheap.
- irrational 3y ago
  We make photo books for every vacation and every year. We leave them stacked up on the coffee table and the kids love looking back through them. We are old enough that we used film cameras for the first 10-15 years of our marriage. But at a certain point we digitized all of our old negatives and then threw the physical photos and negatives away. They take up way too much space.

elzbardico 3y ago

In 50 years probably the only photos your kids will have from today will be her grandma prints.

ghaff 3y ago
I've had a couple of photo books made but I print very little. No room on the walls and I don't really need more physical "stuff." And while various things can happen to physical prints, I expect that most families don't really have a way to systematically pass down digital artifacts.
- irrational 3y ago
  We have about 3 terabytes of family photos and videos. They are stored both on a local hardrive and on a cloud backup. They are probably the most irreplaceable thing we own. But I haven’t really figured out how to make them available to all the kids at some point. They know about the physical drive, but I’m not sure how to pass on the account information for the cloud backup. I don’t really want that information in my will right now since I’m not ready for the kids to access it and they have copies of the will.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    Assuming you're willing to share the photos themselves today, probably some sort of rotating trading of USB drives? Provides redundancy too and 8TB or whatever drives are pretty cheap.
irrational 3y ago
We make photo books for every vacation and every year. We leave them stacked up on the coffee table and the kids love looking back through them. We are old enough that we used film cameras for the first 10-15 years of our marriage. But at a certain point we digitized all of our old negatives and then threw the physical photos and negatives away. They take up way too much space.