Oregon Camera Blog
Photo Achiving
Posted on: Friday October 23, 2009
In your camera, on your computer, or online storage, all of these are ways to back up your digital images. Since the advent of digital cameras the number of images captured has increased exponentially, however the number of prints made from these digital images is very small. All digital images are files and can be lost at a keystroke.
Before the digital era, the primary way to save your images was in prints. If you were lucky you also had a negative. These methods of storage are chemical and unfortunately are also subject to loss from deterioration.
The chemistry in high-quality inkjet prints equals or exceeds the stability of silver images. Prints made using commercial inkjet technology can easily last 100 years. Images that are truly important to you should be made into a print and properly framed or stored using archival materials.
On your computer make a directory with a name like “keepers”, then browse through your thousands of images and make copies of the special ones to the “keepers” directory. Then make a copy of these images on portable media and take them somewhere and get prints made. You will not regret it.
Buying Local
Posted on: Sunday October 18, 2009
Buying local is when:
The person helping you in a store, owns the store.
They know your name and your kids names.
The stuff that you’re buying was grown or was made in the county.
You can talk to a real person face to face when you have a problem.
you can park your bike in the store.
Buying local is not:
Shopping online.
Shopping in a store that has forklifts in the store.
When the store’s bathroom is larger than your house.
When you never see the same face twice.
You saying:” I’d like to buy local but…”
spending $10 in gas to go to a nearby town, to save $5.
Caveat Emptor
Posted on: Sunday October 18, 2009
If a deal seems too good to be true: it probably is!
Unfortunately several times a year we hear a story about somebody who got just too good a deal online and then found that they had been taken. It could be with bait and switch or five hour batteries or being charged for the manual and the free software.
It’s a reality of our business to have customers come in, get advice, handle cameras and then having them buy the camera online. If our customers feel impelled to use the Internet for their purchases, we would like to make sure that they get a genuinely good deal. This is done by checking out the website that you are considering purchasing from first, before you place any orders. This can be done using a website called: www.resellerratings.com On this website a very reputable online seller B&H Photo has a rating of 9.72, Amazon.com has a rating of 7.9. A less sterling online seller Broadway Photo has a rating of 5.73