You have collections of photos, slides and negatives in an assortment of albums, shoe cartons, and slide boxes and don’t quite know what to do with them? It would be a shame to throw them away, but why should you keep them when you don’t ever look at them in the first place?… Don’t worry! Your resistance against throwing out these images is there for good reason.
An entire century of history recorded on film is stored private homes or in institutions, such as museums, foundations and archives. However even with ideal storage conditions, deterioration in image quality is only a question of time. Analog images have to be transferred to a digital medium.
