And certainly avoid relying on social networks to keep your photos (knowing they'll reduce the quality of old photos to save space, not including the myriad of privacy issues).įirst post after creating my forum account, so please be kind if I mess it up. I share the sentiments of what others have said - if one can afford it, do both local and cloud backups. No point in talking about my film archiving here but for my digital photos and film scans, I just use Lightroom and then back it up in several places (including on tape though I don't expect the average consumer will be doing that) both onsite and offsite. It's just a weird business space of organizing photos where some vast percentage are ones folks will never look at again but want to keep. I do fully expect I'm in the minority though. The idea of having to use machine learning to organize things, while cool, kinda exposes the point I'm trying to make here. Film aside, there's something to be said for taking fewer, better photos.

That makes organizing them way easier - not just because there's fewer of them, but because they're all worth something and more specific and thus easier to organize. One of the benefits of going back to film for me is I take far fewer photos, but far FAR more of them are important. I think the one thing worth mentioning is maybe we all take too many photos also.

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