Glass Plate Negative Scans

Great find and sad to think in 100 years our great grand kids won't have anything to find apart from a DVD which won't work
 
stumac said:
Great find and sad to think in 100 years our great grand kids won't have anything to find apart from a DVD which won't work
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For those of shooting film, there is always the possibility that negatives will still be knocking around in many years to come, however, digital files, as you say Stuart, could be a different matter.

I wonder how many people actually print their photos onto paper to have something physical to hold and look at, both now and in the future.

I print just about all my photos, albiet many are only as contact prints, primarily as a reference for myself if i wish to return and print larger.

I think the majority of people simply hold them on hard drives / discs or some other for of digital media, which is fine for sharing and ease of viewing, but what happens at that later date.......
 
I reckon that just as finding some old glass negatives in a box thats not been touched for years, future generations will be just as intrigued by those metal boxes that we store images on now. OK so they will probably have to rig up a power supply that is suitable and plug the device into an old legacy computer device, but they will be just as fascinated.

Of course exact dating of the images should be easy if they have a device that runs a version of Photoshop too.

The biggest threat to anything such as this is not the technology (you can still find legacy 78rpm record players) but the human interaction that 'bins' or destroys them.

Divorce and death being the two biggest factors.
 
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Hi would be highly surprised if any info would still be on a disc , hard drive or anything digital in 100 years
 
shreds said:
I reckon that just as finding some old glass negatives in a box thats not been touched for years, future generations will be just as intrigued by those metal boxes that we store images on now. OK so they will probably have to rig up a power supply that is suitable and plug the device into an old legacy computer device, but they will be just as fascinated.

Of course exact dating of the images should be easy if they have a device that runs a version of Photoshop too.

The biggest threat to anything such as this is not the technology (you can still find legacy 78rpm record players) but the human interaction that 'bins' or destroys them.

Divorce and death being the two biggest factors.
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Agreed that the fascination for future generations finding discs / hard drives etc will probably be on a par to us coming across glass negs that go back towards the onset of photography and also that divorces and deaths lead to the loss of artifacts such as these, however, perhaps i am alone with this belief, but imo products and materials of modern times are no longer produced to stand the test of time.

I'm a long way from understanding the ins and outs of computers but have had an external hardrive seize with no means of rescuing the enclosed files.....it was only several years old.
Similarly with back up discs etc, they can be prone to not holding or losing the info on them...or at least that is what i've found in my experience.

Don't get me wrong, photograph paper , the inks ,and film negatives are prone to deterioration like anything else but personally I would prefer to leave a legacy of selfies ( ok perhaps not too many of them :D) on negatives and prints in a drawer for someone to find in decades to come, than a pixelated version of myself on a potentially seized up HD, although it's unlikely anyone would be interested in them anyway:(
 
Lost count of the actual amount of HD's I've lost.... I back-up but I have had both go at the same time. Happy chappie (not)
 
Asha said:
perhaps i am alone with this belief, but imo products and materials of modern times are no longer produced to stand the test of time.
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Entirely agree with you.

I currently have some old magnetic tape recorder tapes I was given, that are well over 50 years old, but everyone advises that trying to play them might destroy them or the iron oxide particles will deposited on the head of the player. So they sit on a shelf.

Still I don't think my kids will be enamoured with my music tastes or bother much about my photography. It usually takes a couple of generations for the 'fascination' to take hold.
 
That's what I'm saying , yes music records , negs etc are a bit different to a load of numbers and letters stored on a disc , sure is the life span for a disc not under 10 years as stated by most manufactures
 
yep. i love grandads pentax spotmatic, but feel less so about my dads pentax a1 or whatever it is, but my mum threw away my grandparents photo's and likely grandmas omd 1 :(
 
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