Hi! I work in digital cultural heritage (lol), digitizing museum and archive collections--recommend archival storage (acid free), such as Hollinger Metal Edge (brand that many professional archives use) for long-term storage: https://www.hollingermetaledge.com/photo-storage-and-kits/
re: disposable camera. I've been traveling with an Ilford Sprite 35-II and just buying film. You get the same quality and portability but it ends up being cheaper in the long run. Pictures look cool but you just need a TON of light for anything to clearly show.
Don't need to know anything - only setting is a flash (I've never used it). Indoors is tough but an outside, overcast day in Paris lead to very moody but legible/good photos.
My wedding album is that Greek key design at the bottom of your pile. You should have asked, your old ass reader contingent could have sent you dozens of these. Have fun! There's something so special about a photo you can hold in your hand.
I save everything digital on my own drives. I had a moment while attempting to break up with Dropbox and I lost everything I saved in the cloud. I'm not doing that again. Anyway, after I've shuffled off this mortal coil someone is going to have a really interesting time.
I'm going to start referring to myself as an analog apologist.
absolutely love this for me -- you can't understand how perfect the timing is of this post. as a fellow archivist who is convinced my memory or my digital storage will be gone one day without warning, meticulously writing as much down as possible and printing as much out as possible photos-wise is a similar trait. (I won't even start about the CD burning similarities... i've carried all of mine around in a big CD binder for the past 10 years from my hometown to my college town to my post grad town to my first job town to my current town lol) i haven't been able to find anything that is even remotely the high quality for storing photos in a nice album, let alone that isn't hideous. searching on ebay is enlightened?! thank you thank you, pls keep us updated
the older I get, the worse my memory gets, the more analog appeals to me. I long for a paper renaissance, despite being an early adopter to all kinds of technology. i believe you have inspired me to get some doorstopping photo albums of my own
Hi! I work in digital cultural heritage (lol), digitizing museum and archive collections--recommend archival storage (acid free), such as Hollinger Metal Edge (brand that many professional archives use) for long-term storage: https://www.hollingermetaledge.com/photo-storage-and-kits/
oh amazing....i will def be using this!
not cheap, but its the right stuff!
not archival by any means, but this has helped me organize the hundreds of photos I have.
https://www.containerstore.com/s/office/craft-hobby/iris-16-case-4-x-6-photo-craft-storage-carrier/12d?productId=11004246
re: disposable camera. I've been traveling with an Ilford Sprite 35-II and just buying film. You get the same quality and portability but it ends up being cheaper in the long run. Pictures look cool but you just need a TON of light for anything to clearly show.
ahh. do you have to know your photo basics still or is ti very point and shoot?
jk just did a modicum of research and this sounds pretty great! might get one!
Don't need to know anything - only setting is a flash (I've never used it). Indoors is tough but an outside, overcast day in Paris lead to very moody but legible/good photos.
My wedding album is that Greek key design at the bottom of your pile. You should have asked, your old ass reader contingent could have sent you dozens of these. Have fun! There's something so special about a photo you can hold in your hand.
I save everything digital on my own drives. I had a moment while attempting to break up with Dropbox and I lost everything I saved in the cloud. I'm not doing that again. Anyway, after I've shuffled off this mortal coil someone is going to have a really interesting time.
I'm going to start referring to myself as an analog apologist.
absolutely love this for me -- you can't understand how perfect the timing is of this post. as a fellow archivist who is convinced my memory or my digital storage will be gone one day without warning, meticulously writing as much down as possible and printing as much out as possible photos-wise is a similar trait. (I won't even start about the CD burning similarities... i've carried all of mine around in a big CD binder for the past 10 years from my hometown to my college town to my post grad town to my first job town to my current town lol) i haven't been able to find anything that is even remotely the high quality for storing photos in a nice album, let alone that isn't hideous. searching on ebay is enlightened?! thank you thank you, pls keep us updated
Remember to hand check the disposable cameras if you're going through airport security or the film will get ruined!
wow huge pro tip. thank you!
the older I get, the worse my memory gets, the more analog appeals to me. I long for a paper renaissance, despite being an early adopter to all kinds of technology. i believe you have inspired me to get some doorstopping photo albums of my own
Every so often I do a deep dive on photo albums on eBay for this exact reason. Glad you ended up with a lot and some fun ideas of how to use them 🤎