{"id":773,"date":"2008-08-28T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/08\/28\/cheap-scans\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:08:43","slug":"cheap-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/08\/28\/cheap-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Archive those attic snaps<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York <i>Pravda<\/i> may well have its editorial head stuck where the sun never shines, but now and then they have a useful photography piece, such as <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/14\/technology\/personaltech\/14pogue.html?em target=_blank>this one<\/a> (account needed) on scanning all those old snaps in brown paper bags in the attic.<\/p>\n<p>The service they profile, <a href=http:\/\/ScanMyPhotos.com\/ target=_blank>ScanMyPhotos<\/a> is inexpensive and worth looking into, the point being that all those memories in the shoebox in the attic are probably not backed up.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/ScanMyPhotos.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that even digiphobes would appreciate that a scan of precious, decaying originals makes sense.  Of course, you also need a back-up drive as your hard drive will fail sooner or later.  Mercifully, digital storage is becoming insanely inexpensive.  Some prefer to upload their scans to a file sharing service, though I fail to see why that should be any more secure (how do you <i>know<\/i> they back-up properly? Recall the recent fiasco with lost emails when Apple&#8217;s poorly debugged MobileMe debuted?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archive those attic snaps. The New York Pravda may well have its editorial head stuck where the sun never shines, but now and then they have a useful photography piece, such as this one (account needed) on scanning all those old snaps in brown paper bags in the attic. The service they profile, ScanMyPhotos is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/08\/28\/cheap-scans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheap scans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}