9 Converting Digital Formats
Most people are concerned about their older physical photos suffering from fading, yellowing, mold, and other kinds of decay. It’s obviously important to preserve these memories through archival scanning, but what most people don’t realize is that losing their digital photos might be an even greater risk.
If you have a tintype from the 1860s, a print from the 1920s, and a slide from the 1950s, you need only one piece of equipment to view all these formats: the human eye. When it comes to digital photos, there are hundreds of different formats that were developed in just the last twenty years. Many of these formats have already become obsolete and almost impossible to view, so it’s important to evaluate your digital ...
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