What do I do with the mountains of photographs.....scan the best and then throw them out?
Terry and Jo said
04:53 PM Aug 27, 2011
With some of the online photo sharing sites, you can have an awful lot of space for photos. Some even have no limits at all. Photobucket is unlimited in the number of photos you can post to their site, and videos are limited to 500. Plus, it is free.
With that in mind, you could scan them all and post them to the photo sharing site. As a backup, I would also suggest saving all to a CD or DVD as well. Keep in mind, regardless of what some say, CD's and DVD's don't last as long as some want to claim.
Terry
Racerguy said
05:53 PM Aug 27, 2011
Like Terry said we saved a lot to Photobucket then made albums for each kid(6) and each grandchild(6) then gave the rest to our siblings.To our surprise the grandchildren seemed more pleased with the albums than their parents.
Laura and Bunk said
06:23 PM Aug 27, 2011
Racerguy, your right, the grandchildren have far more interest in the photos than the kids. I have been scanning for weeks now getting ready to go and the grandkids want the photos posted on line and then they want the actual photos! They also are taking a lot of the "old memories" that have been packed away forever. Of course their parents have to find a place to put it all
-- Edited by Laura and Bunk on Saturday 27th of August 2011 06:27:29 PM
Waggin Tails said
07:47 PM Aug 27, 2011
I agree with the group of scan and give away. I highly recommend storing on flash drives instead of CD or DVD simply because CD and DVD drives have mechanical parts that can break. My daughter recently lost her main backup drive which just happened to be a large external hard drive. Flash memory is running about $2 per GB and there are no moving parts.
Just recently scanned my slides. Only kept about 25% of them. Those I tossed were of people and places that we just could not remember.
bjoyce said
10:36 PM Aug 27, 2011
My sister-in-law just had a flash drive break in half and she wasn't doing anything rough with it. She was not happy since it had work files on it. Best to have more than one backup, DVDs and maybe flash drives. I have multiple sets of DVD backups of my digital photos, about 200GB per set. I have lots of photos, negative and slides in storage that I need to scan someday. I take a lot of photos and have done so since I was a teenager.
kimbrellsf said
06:34 AM Aug 28, 2011
I'm a back up nut. I back up to an external hard drive, plus use Carbonite. I figure with the dual approach, I should be covered. Better start scanning......
SueMac said
07:07 AM Feb 15, 2012
I scanned in all our old photos, then boxed them up and saved them at our son's.
My hobby is photography so I have lots of photos from our travels. And I too am a back up nut. I have them on 2 computers, back up hard drives and DVD's. The more places the better. There are too many for a flash drive.
Rosie RV Thumper and Dog Dog said
07:18 PM Apr 25, 2012
Hi Kim,
From one photographer to another I use an external drive 1 Terrabit to hold all my photos. That way I have access to the photos all the time. With being a backup nut thiss is the best of both worlds. If you would like to visit my website here is the link:
-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Thursday 26th of April 2012 09:19:21 PM
Neil and Connie said
10:24 PM Apr 26, 2012
Scan, put them on a cloud storage service and put the family heirloom ones in storage unless somebody else in the family wants them.
For a storage service; I strongly recommend a pay service instead of a free service. Most of the free ones give themselves too many rights to use your photos as they wish and some even transfer ownership of the image copyright to the service. Given the small annual fee (I use smugmug.com and it's 60 bucks a year for a Power account which lets you store both video and still photos) and the fact that you retain complete control with the pay service, going the flickr or yahoo or google or picassa or whatever that's free route doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
What do I do with the mountains of photographs.....scan the best and then throw them out?
With some of the online photo sharing sites, you can have an awful lot of space for photos. Some even have no limits at all. Photobucket is unlimited in the number of photos you can post to their site, and videos are limited to 500. Plus, it is free.
With that in mind, you could scan them all and post them to the photo sharing site. As a backup, I would also suggest saving all to a CD or DVD as well. Keep in mind, regardless of what some say, CD's and DVD's don't last as long as some want to claim.
Terry
Racerguy, your right, the grandchildren have far more interest in the photos than the kids. I have been scanning for weeks now getting ready to go and the grandkids want the photos posted on line and then they want the actual photos! They also are taking a lot of the "old memories" that have been packed away forever. Of course their parents have to find a place to put it all
-- Edited by Laura and Bunk on Saturday 27th of August 2011 06:27:29 PM
Just recently scanned my slides. Only kept about 25% of them. Those I tossed were of people and places that we just could not remember.
I have multiple sets of DVD backups of my digital photos, about 200GB per set. I have lots of photos, negative and slides in storage that I need to scan someday. I take a lot of photos and have done so since I was a teenager.
I scanned in all our old photos, then boxed them up and saved them at our son's.
My hobby is photography so I have lots of photos from our travels. And I too am a back up nut. I have them on 2 computers, back up hard drives and DVD's. The more places the better. There are too many for a flash drive.
Hi Kim,
From one photographer to another I use an external drive 1 Terrabit to hold all my photos. That way I have access to the photos all the time. With being a backup nut thiss is the best of both worlds. If you would like to visit my website here is the link:
http://torkomian.artistwebsites.com/index.html
Good Luck
Thmper
Edit by moderator: Activate link. Terry
-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Thursday 26th of April 2012 09:17:57 PM
Nice photos. Do you sell any? I've tried on some of mine, but none sold. So my photography is for our pleasure.
Here is my photo site:
http://sdwind.zenfolio.com/
Edit by moderator: Activated link. Terry
-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Thursday 26th of April 2012 09:19:21 PM
Scan, put them on a cloud storage service and put the family heirloom ones in storage unless somebody else in the family wants them.
For a storage service; I strongly recommend a pay service instead of a free service. Most of the free ones give themselves too many rights to use your photos as they wish and some even transfer ownership of the image copyright to the service. Given the small annual fee (I use smugmug.com and it's 60 bucks a year for a Power account which lets you store both video and still photos) and the fact that you retain complete control with the pay service, going the flickr or yahoo or google or picassa or whatever that's free route doesn't make a lot of sense to me.