We still have negatives made (occasionally) at a photo lab here in Dallas,
but now I'm beginning to wonder how much longer we'll be able to do that... 


Rachel Roberts
 
Dallas Historical Society
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Lynne
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:57 AM
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Subject: No Negative

  A resident who lived in our town in the late 1920's sent us some original
photos of his still-standing historic house here. He asked that they be
returned after copying them. I scanned them at a high resolution and saved
them to a CD. In light of the ongoing debates about digitizing images and
ever-changing technology, however, I also took them to two photo shops in
town and asked that negatives be made of them -- so we always have something
in hand. I was startled when both places said they don't make negatives
anymore and that they just scan the images too. They did note, though, that
if I brought the CD to them, they could print the images with whatever
technology they have that produces longer-lasting images than those from our
ink-jet printer.
    Is this true everywhere? Are negatives now unavailable and useless? We
have many negatives in our collection already and I foresee having to jump
in and start digitizing those images. Is this true of slides, too?
    Thanks!
Lynne 

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