Link Love: 2/1/2013
- Digitizing your personal collections of documents and photographs is a dauting task. The Library of Congress provides some advice on whether you should consider doing it youself or having someone else do it for you. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- The Getty Research Institute recently announced the addition of approximately 250,000 art sale records from more than 2,000 German auction catalogs dating from 1930–1945 to its free online art historical research resources. The new records will help to establish the history of ownership for art objects and will also serve as a rich primary sources for historians of Western art. [via InfoDocket]
- Is JPEG-2000 the best image preservation standard? Not necessarily so. [via The Signal, Digital Preservation, LOC]
- As analog film makes its slow march towards abosolence, Andrew Waits, takes a look at the people and equipment behind Capitol Hill 60 Minute Photo which closed at the end of 2012. [via PetaPixel]
- One of the very first digital cameras almost found its way into the dumpster. Thanks to the work of Todd Gustavson, of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the Kodak Tactical Camera was saved. [via PetaPixel]
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I was looking at the video of the oldest digital camera thinking "that does't look to much different from what's in the stores today".....then he shows the memory card! That is huge. It is absolutely amazing how quickly storage technology has advanced. Is there an exhibit/website that anyone is aware of where the advances are documented year-by-year and advancement by advancement?
Yes it is amazing how these bulky camera body's have changed very little over the years. The large square body's were originally required for film but are really not required in today's digital age. There are concept camera's today which do away with the body all together and look more like a telescope/tube. I wonder if these devices will catch on?
It is hard to say what will catch on these days when it comes to technology and cameras. Cameras that skew too far away from what we are used too may not catch on or may be totally the next greatest thing. Ultimately the people who buy them will determine what direction digital cameras may go in the future.
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