Good AFternoon, Just putting in my two cent's worth here. I would think that storing a roll/rolls of undeveloped color film one could encounter color shifts when it was developed or fading caused by the aging of the film. I think probably a digital camera is probably the best option to actually safeguard personal information and belongings. Have a great day. Pat in KS ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: [OHPICKAW] Re: CD's > In a message dated 1/13/2006 3:21:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > Just a word of warning. > If you take pictures of your home & belongings with roll film, KEEP THE > ROLL > OF FILM in a safe place. Don't give it to a developer! > They will have not only pix, but your name, phone # and/or address! > Instead of using a whole roll for this, I just finished rolls with this > kind > of record - so there might be 2 or 3 pictures at the end of vacation roll > or > Christmas roll. And don't rolls of film eventually go bad to the point > that > you cannot develope it?? I think you would be better off to find a > developer > you can trust, or buy or borrow a digital camera. > > Bev > > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

There is no "perfectly safe" way of preserving your hard earned information or treasured photographs. If I had copied all my data and photos ten years ago on my computer, I would be unable to access any of it now, had I not consistently upgraded it when my newer models were installed. I have a whole shelf full of wonderful music that I bought over the course of the 1950s and '60s, on "Hi-Fi" and Stereo LPs. Remember those 12" vinyl disks? Then along came 8-track tapes and I bought a few. They dropped through a hole in the space-time continuum pretty quickly, and then there were cassettes. Then CDs. I have a few of them. At present I can still play my CDs, but my granddaughter has a gadget called an MP3 that her tunes are on; it's not much bigger than your thumb, and she has about 300 songs on it (if you can call such drivel songs). The first computer we bought was in 1983 and it had a one megabyte (that's right, megabyte) hard disc drive! A million character strokes! Whoa! We had hit the bigtime then! How would we ever fill all that space?! The programs I use today wouldn't even load on that machine, much less run on it. At one point I saved all my PAF files onto multiple 5.25" floppies and took a set up to Roanoke to my mother's for an "off-premises" backup. After she passed away in 2003, they were still there, safe and sound, but none of my computers will utilize 5.25" floppies, and I'll soon not be able to use the 3.5" floppies that replaced them! Paper is subject to steady decay no matter what you do with it, but "archival" quality is far superior to your regular old printer paper as far as longevity is concerned. Print any important data on archival quality paper and store it in a dark, cool, dry place. Not the top of the closet. Not in the cellar/basement. Not the garage. Not in the attic. If you are not comfortable in the storage space in all seasons, your papers and photos will not be either!. Digital cameras may give you wonderful capabilities to see what you're getting at the moment, but they are not to be depended upon for permanent storage. Remember all those photos we took with Polaroid cameras? Some of them can barely be said to have an image, much less a recognizable image. Do not take photos and leave the film undeveloped! Film deteriorates like anything else. How do you know if you have pictures? I have missed many a shot over the years, and had I not developed the rolls, I wouldn't even know I didn't have them, or that one was too dark or too blurred, etc., so that I could possibly reshoot! Regardless of how you store your photos, on photographic paper or digitally, make multiple hard copies, put them in photo-safe storage containers, and take or send a set of hard copies to someone in another locality to hold for you. The best way to "save" your photos and data is to have hard copies that you spread around to distant relatives who will take care of them. That way, should you be in a fire, a flood, an earthquake, tornado, or hurricane (termites got into some papers that I had stored in the converted garage of my home!), your archives can come home to you! Nothing is fool-proof. Okay, I'm putting away my soap box, now. Carolyn HALE BRUCE Co-author, Rebel King, Hammer of the Scots and Rebel King, The Har'ships http://www.RebelKing.com Author, Virginiana, A Visitors' Guide to Virginia History and Other Stuff http://www.VirginianaBooks.com Available now at www.JonesArt.com: Herb Jones, Poet With a Paintbrush by Barbara Jones Jones

Hey Pat, I kept some film undeveloped for several years and when I did develop it, some of the pictures were faded. I would not try it. Happy Hunting doc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patsy Sutton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: [OHPICKAW] Re: CD's > Good AFternoon, > > Just putting in my two cent's worth here. I would think that storing a > roll/rolls of undeveloped color film one could encounter color shifts when > it was developed or fading caused by the aging of the film. I think > probably a digital camera is probably the best option to actually > safeguard personal information and belongings. > > Have a great day. > > Pat in KS > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:20 PM > Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: [OHPICKAW] Re: CD's > > >> In a message dated 1/13/2006 3:21:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> Just a word of warning. >> If you take pictures of your home & belongings with roll film, KEEP THE >> ROLL >> OF FILM in a safe place. Don't give it to a developer! >> They will have not only pix, but your name, phone # and/or address! >> Instead of using a whole roll for this, I just finished rolls with this >> kind >> of record - so there might be 2 or 3 pictures at the end of vacation roll >> or >> Christmas roll. And don't rolls of film eventually go bad to the point >> that >> you cannot develope it?? I think you would be better off to find a >> developer >> you can trust, or buy or borrow a digital camera. >> >> Bev >> >> >> ============================== >> Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >> ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >> >> > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >