I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT - Page 2

footfootfoot · 04-29-2011, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Yup, on it, thanks UT. Now is the time to scan all the ones we cherish.....

I will point out the obvious irony here of scanning photos (which still exist) from 1980's into a computer storage system that surely will not exist 20-30 years from now. If you don't throw away those photos, you will be able to scan them into whatever gizmo we'll be using then. Guaranteed.

monster · 04-29-2011, 02:40 PM

but clearly, now I have found them, my karma is hell-bent on destroying them as quickly as possible, they will not be around in another 20-30 years.

footfootfoot · 04-29-2011, 02:49 PM

It sometimes bums me out to see how young and youthful and relatively handsome I was in my old photos.

glatt · 04-29-2011, 03:05 PM

It's kind of amazing isn't it? Hard to believe we looked like that.

ZenGum · 04-29-2011, 06:42 PM

Yet another reason to marry a nerd. Go Beest!

Beest · 05-03-2011, 12:21 PM

Back in my post grad days we use to develop and print all our negtives and pictures, crop them and stick little printed out arrows and labels on them.

When I started working we use to capture all our pictures on polaroids.

So I knew the picture wouldn't just wipe off.

monster · 05-03-2011, 12:24 PM

And back in your batchelor's degree days you just painting the fucking things straight on to the cave walls.

lookout123 · 05-03-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Think two chess moves ahead, here:

Once you have them scanned, the digital copy is the one you'll want to protect. The original prints are too much trouble, as we see.

Unless someone in those photos becomes historically notable (you can't rule that out), the only thing someone in the future will want to do with those originals is to SCAN them!

But any future scan will inevitably start from a print that is degraded from your current scan.

You obviously haven't thought ahead to the inevitable EMP attack. We'll be going back to printed photos soon.

Perry Winkle · 05-03-2011, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

You obviously haven't thought ahead to the inevitable EMP attack. We'll be going back to printed photos soon.

Guess my blacksmithing obsession could come in handy...

04-29-2011, 02:40 PM	#17
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	but clearly, now I have found them, my karma is hell-bent on destroying them as quickly as possible, they will not be around in another 20-30 years. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 02:49 PM	#18
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	It sometimes bums me out to see how young and youthful and relatively handsome I was in my old photos. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

04-29-2011, 06:42 PM	#20
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Yet another reason to marry a nerd. Go Beest! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

05-03-2011, 12:24 PM	#22
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	And back in your batchelor's degree days you just painting the fucking things straight on to the cave walls. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 03:05 PM	#19
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It's kind of amazing isn't it? Hard to believe we looked like that.

05-03-2011, 12:21 PM	#21
Beest Adapt and Survive Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ann Arbor, Mi Posts: 957	Back in my post grad days we use to develop and print all our negtives and pictures, crop them and stick little printed out arrows and labels on them. When I started working we use to capture all our pictures on polaroids. So I knew the picture wouldn't just wipe off.

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