Deseret News | Reader comments: Negatives a big plus for Utahns

Reader comments: Negatives are a Utah treasure trove

Curator | 4:36 a.m. June 1, 2008

These are priceless. $75k is a good start, but I plead with voters to ask their legislators for more. In a place deeply interested in family history, these negatives have much to shed light on those who have preceded us.

Bob G | 4:37 a.m. June 1, 2008

Hopefully the historical society is making prints from these negatives to further preserve the images these negatives hold. Glad to hear the negatives are being treated well though, I wish I had kept many of my old negatives from years ago. Those images are lost forever. Digital images are not the same as the old negative printing methods, they are permenant records that could not be altered. Good job, but wish they would have alotted more funding for this very valuable collection. Just as the pyramids are a record of the Egyptians, negatives are the records of America.

Mahonri | 6:33 a.m. June 1, 2008

Digitize all you want but be sure to preserve the negatives. They will still be around long after bits & bytes from the digital files have deteriorated to the stage where the files can no longer be opened.
This should be a lesson to those who are so paranoid about people with cameras being around... their photos will be the only reliable records of what things actually looked like in a few years.

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We'd like to see 'em | 5:36 p.m. June 1, 2008

OK, here's my tax money. Now where do I see those 10,000 images you've digitized? SHARE, people!

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