A Beginners Guide on Safekeeping Digital Photos
by David Tong
We all learn the hard way when it comes to insuring our possessions, only when something goes wrong will we ever say damn, I shouldve , but its often too late.
Nicky - Circa 2001
When I first started digital photography around the late 90s (darn Im old!), the company I worked for bought a Kodak DC290, a 2MB digital camera that was uber high-tech for most of us and a far cry from the clunky Sony Mavica floppy-disk storage cameras. I was able to borrow the camera from the company for quite a while and took some wonderful family shots with the camera, especially when my niece, Nicole, was still a little toddler.
At that time, the popular online photo storage site was Yahoo! Photos (which later was dissolved and integrated into Flickr), I stored quite a few photos in Yahoo! Photos and nowhere else, which was fine until I realized that Yahoo! Photos only stored low-resolution files at that time. A few years down the road, when I learned the importance of having an original file, I didnt have much to work with.
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by David Tong
We all learn the hard way when it comes to insuring our possessions, only when something goes wrong will we ever say damn, I shouldve , but its often too late.
Nicky - Circa 2001
When I first started digital photography around the late 90s (darn Im old!), the company I worked for bought a Kodak DC290, a 2MB digital camera that was uber high-tech for most of us and a far cry from the clunky Sony Mavica floppy-disk storage cameras. I was able to borrow the camera from the company for quite a while and took some wonderful family shots with the camera, especially when my niece, Nicole, was still a little toddler.
At that time, the popular online photo storage site was Yahoo! Photos (which later was dissolved and integrated into Flickr), I stored quite a few photos in Yahoo! Photos and nowhere else, which was fine until I realized that Yahoo! Photos only stored low-resolution files at that time. A few years down the road, when I learned the importance of having an original file, I didnt have much to work with.
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