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WhatsApp is an easy way to share photographs and videos with family and friends. However, if you have had your old family memories digitised, there is an important difference between sharing them on WhatsApp and sharing the actual digital files. When you send a photograph or video as normal media in a WhatsApp message, WhatsApp compresses it. This reduces the file size and makes it quicker to send, but it also reduces the quality. You may not notice much difference when looki

If you have found a box of small, square photographic slides among your old family belongings, you may be wondering exactly what they are and what you can do with them. 35mm slides are photographic transparencies, usually mounted in small square frames. Unlike a conventional photographic negative, which must be printed or scanned and inverted to create a normal photograph, a slide contains a positive image that you can view directly when light passes through it. For many year

If you have a collection of old family photographs, you may also have the original negatives tucked away in a drawer, envelope or photo album. So, if you have both, which should you digitise? The answer is usually the negative, if it is still in good condition. However, negatives are more expensive to scan than photographic prints, so you don't necessarily need to scan every negative you have. For many collections, a mix of photographs and negatives is the best approach. Use

When you digitise a collection of old family photographs and videos, you end up with digital image files that are much easier to store, copy, and share. But you can do more with those files than simply look at the photographs. You can also add information about them, such as when a photograph was taken, where it was taken and who is in it. This information is called metadata. What Is Metadata? Metadata is simply information about a digital file. With a digital photograph, som