January 30, 2006

Sliding Home

For a decade I only took slides. I liked the simplicity of dropping the film off to be processed and picking up the slides a few hours later. This was in the days before one hour processing and digital imaging. I admit that the slide format now seems archaic especially since film cameras and slide projectors are not as popular as in the past.

Like the millions of people who also chose slides as their photographic medium for family events and vacations I wonder about the future of the boxes of slides stored in my home. What’s going to happen to them? If you own slide collections--film or glass--you’re probably trying to decide how to share, preserve, and copy them...

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