On 20/06/2012, Richard L. Hess wrote:

> In my experience, most archives are strapped for cash and are looking
> for oddball things. I feel much better about giving something to an
> archive which may be able to use it (or its parts) than I do about
> selling something on eBay for a few bucks and much more hassle. I sent
> off about 750 pounds of stuff, mostly through this and the AMIA list,
> mostly to LoC, free for shipping on the recipients FedEx ground
> account.
> 
> No, I wouldn't post a skateboard, but a nice classic 3 MP digicam is a
> very useful tool for documenting preservation and archiving procedures
> which are on-topic. I'm spoiled in that I have a Nikon D100 6 MP DSLR
> with a micro-Nikkor 60 mm f/2.8 lens on it for this purpose, but a
> friend finds that her Kodak DX4330 which is the same class camera as
> the one Tom gave away is quite useful--so useful in fact, that we
> bought her a second one on eBay when the one I gave her broke and the
> 7-8 MP compact Nikon Coolpix she bought to have something smaller had
> far worse low-light performance even though being 4-5 years newer.
> 
> I am fairly sure that Tom made someone happy today. Maybe even that
> person might use the camera to try and explain an archiving issue (as
> I have). I see the camera as an important tool in archiving work and,
> indeed, one of the D100s lives in the studio. (As an aside, my main
> picture-taking camera is a D200 with other lenses--it's getting long
> in the tooth, but I've got two kids going to university starting this
> fall for the first one).
> 
Digital cameras are becoming obsolete long before they wear out. The
same was true of computers in the 1980s.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
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