Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

[darren]

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It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

so mate you say you lost loads of digital photos some that meant a lot to you.

but have you still got the original photos mate.

[culnara]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

nah, I don't think it will, as other's have said, technology will advance, and these digital pic's will seem old hat, anyway u get software to make them look old and the Printers u get nowadays can print as tho they were out of the shop

on Trickyvees plight, yeah if the hard drive is ok, just take it out and stick it in the desktop
bob's yer uncle
on another note, even if you accidentally deleted them, u get recovery programs
I once got a virus on my PC, reluctantly ended up having to reformat and re-install
the os
I had years of Music/Videos/and Picture's stored on the hard drive which was now empty

don't ask me how, even tho the disk said it was free space apart from the os
I downloaded a program off the net and got every single thing back

hth

[memoman]

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Would it not be better to use a document scanner to scan the prints to your pc.?

[scotchmist]

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I must have had a very similar thought because I have been doing that also. I've contacted relatives and borrowed snaps from years ago and taken digital images from them. Photographs rather than scans. I've found the best way to do it is to take them from about 1.5m away on macro and zoom so they remain square edged. It is a cheaper option than hiring a rostrum camera. Whatever images you capture need backing up several times(just in case)

Interesting! I might try that method. I set my camera to "Documents setting" with the macro on and took them just close enough for the picture to fill the view-finder, about 7 inches away. My biggest concern was how to light the photographs I was copying. In the end I just used natural light placing the pics close to my living room window, that seemed to give the best result although there were some shadows on gloss prints. You also need to use the highest resolution setting you can get away with.

[Grosh62]

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I must have had a very similar thought because I have been doing that also. I've contacted relatives and borrowed snaps from years ago and taken digital images from them. Photographs rather than scans. I've found the best way to do it is to take them from about 1.5m away on macro and zoom so they remain square edged. It is a cheaper option than hiring a rostrum camera. Whatever images you capture need backing up several times(just in case)

[scotchmist]

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On this subject I had a brain-wave last year and "digitaly reprocessed" about 80 of my favourite old analogue prints. All I did was I photographed them with my digital camera! Sounds a bit lame I know, but the pictures came out really well and of course you can darken/lighten them and enhance them to your taste. There was one particularly faded black and white instant-polaroid (remember them) from 1975 which will probably be unrecognisable in a few years and now I have it preserved for eternity. It has very sentimantal value and you didn't get negatives with polaroid prints which makes the whole experience more rewarding!

[Grosh62]

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The thrill of getting your prints from the shop has gone (with a third being rubbish, over/under exposed, thumbs and pictures of the cat to use the film up); I miss that but love the new technology.

Exactly! It was a great waste of money but So very Exciting with everybody claiming first look too.

[Jacqueline]

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I agree TooSoonTom. (are you a Riddler?)

[TooSoonTom]

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The thrill of getting your prints from the shop has gone (with a third being rubbish, over/under exposed, thumbs and pictures of the cat to use the film up); I miss that but love the new technology.

[Paulos]

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Sorry but I disagree with the ageing photo bit.

Its the quality of what the photo says that brings the nostalgia not a fading photo.
Myself and my friends have just had a massive posting of photos and rare video footage on facebook from 20+ odd years ago when we were teenagers and its brought back a huge amount of nostalgia.

What digital photography is changing is the amount of photos we now have, it use to be that you would have 24 or 36 exposures which you had to pay once for the film and then again to get printed of which at least a quarter would come back a load of rubbish and blurred etc.
So you would take your photos carefully, nowadays we just snap away at anything.

One good photo in a album is worth at least 20 or 30 photos taken of the same day sitting on your hard drive doing nothing.

My latest project at home is going through all my archived digital photos and pulling out the gems which I am getting printed for a proper family photo album.

[Grosh62]

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So don't be so despondent Trickyvee

[memoman]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

if the harddrive is not physically destroyed they should be recoverable.if it was not the harddrive that died you could connect the harddrive as a "slave drive" to another pc.There are a number of recovery software options too.There are companies/shops that speialize in data recovery.

[Star Attraction]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

Have you still got the "dead" laptop? If so, can you open it up, take out the hard disk and fit it inside a desktop PC as an extra hard disk. I'd only recommend you do this if you are familiar with computer hardware, if you know nothing about computers do you have a friend who is familiar with computers?

That's why you shouldn't rely solely on your hard disk for storage, back up to DVDs regularly.

I've got loads of photos from the last couple of years on my PC, which is why the hard disk is almost full. Once I've sorted through all my 2009 photos (getting rid of dud ones I don't want), I'll archive the lot to DVDs - two sets not just one.

[Grosh62]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

It will be possible to do Something about this!!!!. Try PC World and explain. They will be able to take your Hard Drive out and transfer it for you I'm Sure. It may cost a bit but those images are priceless. Good Luck!!

[vanhelsing]

Re: Digital Photography will Ruin Nostalgia?..Discuss.

It's ruined it for me already. My old laptop died at the weekend and has all my digital photos on it from the last 6 years...no back ups or prints . There wasn't tons as I do a lot of deleting, but the ones that were there were precious. My own fault I know but gutted.

Sorry to hear that and believe me, I know how it feels to lose some of your best stuff (Don't know what I did but I accidenatlly wiped one of my flash drives last year) so you've got my sympathy. The best advice I can give his get yourself some back up SD cards and USB flashdrives and keep them in a very safe place. One thing Ilost involved a literary experiment I'd been hoping to do for years and finally got round to doing but this time I'm repeating the experiment with back ups and a more qualified and experienced (but a bit out of her depth) character.

Anyway, what about all those people who have their own darkrooms? Wasn't developing your own photoes part of the fun of photography as a hobby?
The same could be saifd for gaiming these days, all it took during thei eighties was a basic knowlege of machine code, bit of planning a few cans of lager (if you were old enough), some eighties music and a few nights a week sat in front of an 8-bit computer to create a good or even best selling game. But know it's all hollywood block buster budgets, several people working on it at once and months. years.