People are as strange as you make them.
I don't think it was suggested that anyone was "strange".
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251212-why-your-early-2000s-photos-are-probably-lost-forever
I thought this was an interesting read
Yet, you appear to have a keen interest in exchanging thoughts with people on photography in the online realm. It's not so far-fetched that some extend this to their photography. In fact, it's much the same. You can expect absolute strangers to have just about the same interest in your opinions as in your photos. I think it shouldn't keep someone from sharing if they so desire.
My digital archive still contains the first digital film scan I ever had done (professionally) from 1995.That BBC article is obviously written for people who don't know how to save files created since 2000. I still have my very first digital image files from circa 2001 or so, and all digital images created since then. How is that so hard?
Do you not digitize your work to share online??
Luckily, Shakespeare and Picasso and Cartier-Bresson and Mozart and thousands of other people didn't agree with you.
That BBC article is obviously written for people who don't know how to save files created since 2000. I still have my very first digital image files from circa 2001 or so, and all digital images created since then. How is that so hard?
Wow. Should I point out the irony of the fact that you freely share your opinions on this forum? That's not much different from the sharing of other things you create.
What an empty place the Internet would be if everyone had that opinion. I think of all the work I have encountered on Flickr over the past 20+ years and how it has influenced my ideas about photography. (In good ways)
The Internet is the one gallery that everyone has access to. You don't need to convince some snooty "art professional" that your work has merit and deserves to be seen, you can simply present it for others to view. By choosing not to share what you do, you rob yourself of opportunities.
I'll quote Picasso:
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
I'd like to think we're more friendly than absolute strangers that we just bumped into in the street. Most people like to share the results of their hobby with other enthusiasts more than checking with them to get answers to your problems. Maybe we can be more friendly if you;d start by adding your picture and real name to your avatar?Well I don't. If by work you mean "taking photos" then like AERO, all of it is on negatives and a lot of it on prints which people I know well enough are free to have a look at. There may be a case for sharing a negative on a forum for discussion if you have a processing issue which you can't resolve by yourself after asking some questions but other than that very limited need to share "online" I see little point in sharing with a world of absolute strangers anymore than I see the point of stopping a stranger in the street and asking him if he'd like copies of my prints which is in effect what you are doing when you go "online" in my opinion anyway
pentaxuser
In the years 2000-2005 where I lost the most photos, those are the years of my first digital camera. 2005 marks the time when people were starting to post online without the trouble of having to build HTML from scratch or limit their storage usage.
Though physical backups existed in those days, they tended to be slower. A lot of people were burning CDs as backups. Today, it's much faster, and sometimes even automated and in the background. Back then, you usually had to remember and be intentional about doing it.
The result was my father who was still using film cameras during those years and going to 1 hour photo labs still has all of it in nice boxes of 4x6. Me who spent all my time playing video games might have a few pictures if I dig hard enough but most are lost. This was pretty normal for someone in their teens.
Did you read the entire article? One of her points was that consumer backup solutions were not as standardised as they are today, they were not as cheap, there was no USB-C, so things ended up backed up, when they did, on a pot-pourri of different media, some of which still physical. Unless you put your mind to it to do this backup thing methodically, that is, and many people people in her age group then didn't care about RAID-0.
I suspect the vast majority of people started methodically backing up when Apple Iphones and iCloud did it for them by default.
The author also moved around a lot so things got lost in the process.
Wow. Should I point out the irony of the fact that you freely share your opinions on this forum? That's not much different from the sharing of other things you create.
What an empty place the Internet would be if everyone had that opinion. I think of all the work I have encountered on Flickr over the past 20+ years and how it has influenced my ideas about photography. (In good ways)
The Internet is the one gallery that everyone has access to. You don't need to convince some snooty "art professional" that your work has merit and deserves to be seen, you can simply present it for others to view. By choosing not to share what you do, you rob yourself of opportunities.
I'll quote Picasso:
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Sure, and that's your choice to make.To rob myself of an opportunity(ies) I'd have to be able to recognise what it or those are and I cannot see what it or they might be
Well, I think one's feelings about a matter are quite personal things by definition, so I feel the difference isn't all that big, really.more personal things like photos but I was only stating my feelings on the matter
It all boils down to the fact that
I'd like to think we're more friendly than absolute strangers that we just bumped into in the street. Most people like to share the results of their hobby with other enthusiasts more than checking with them to get answers to your problems. Maybe we can be more friendly if you;d start by adding your picture and real name to your avatar?
Well, I think one's feelings about a matter are quite personal things by definition, so I feel the difference isn't all that big, really.
When you die, your wife's next husband will throw out all your stuff.
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