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Thanks for this info! As soon as we get a new computer, we have boxes and boxes of old negatives and slides to scan (we are archiving our grandfather’s photos – he was a photographer). I haven’t even started to think about the best way to preserve these digitally, so I appreciate your thoughts.
There are many ways to create digital copies of the old photos, from scanning them yourself (as I do) or paying for a service. The choice is yours. One of the most important points to make is to choose an archiving workflow the works for you.
Digitizing your grandfather’s old photos will allow many generations in the future to enjoy his hardwork.
I’m hoping to get a photo scanner for Christmas. I thought it would produce better images on my blog that just taking a picture of a picture with my digital camera.
Many people use a digital camera to take pictures of a picture. If done right, you could end up with a great digital copy. Obviously, if you get a scanner for Christmas it will make the digital copies much better, plus you have more control over the colours of the image.
From the very beginning, when I first got my scanner I made sure that I put all my photos in surname main folders, and then as I scanned others in branches of that family line I could find them easily. I did a main folder for my husband’s surname, and then one for my maiden name. Will you be backing up your photos on archival disks too? Just curious.
Sounds like you have developed an archiving strategy that works for you. In terms of backing up, I do several things. First I move the pictures to an external hard drive. From there, they are automatically backed up online. Once that is done I burn them to two DVDs. The DVDs are Taiyo Yuden +R discs. Taiyo Yuden’s are well known as great quality that rival archival DVDs.
I use a Fujitsu S510 scanner for all of my scanning. I have about 30,000 searchable pdf documents on file. I keep them on 2 different drives and I back them up daily. I do use Cobian backup which is a free backup software which works great.
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