Digital BW, The Print

I suspect that is far from the norm.  My parents kept albums/scrapbooks of both of us (I was born in 1939, my brother in 1944 I think--harder to get film in that period), but there are NO negatives.  Even though my grandfather was an amateur photographer, only his slides remain--no negs for any of his prints.  Photographs were put in the albums but the color photos are very degraded--the black and whites reasonably good condition----but, as I said, no negatives and I suspect this is more likely the norm.

Diane
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Diane B. Fields
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Kale 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] the contax toast/film thingy


  I very much doubt that your situation is the norm.


  > From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>

  > My parents actually have negatives of photos of me, from infancy
  > onwards.  And when I scan them today, they look a hundred times better
  > than they did when they got drugstore prints of those negatives decades
  > ago.  One of the advantages of film was that it stored a huge amount of
  > information, even before there was an economical way to extract it.  I
  > scanned some 40-year-old Tri-X negatives (from a shoebox!) not long ago,
  > and they looked like they had been shot yesterday.
  > 
  > 



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