Scanning Advantages? Tell Us More…
Scanning your photos has only advantages! If you are still wondering what those are, read on! Don’t forget, DittoBee is here exactly for enabling you to take advantage of these advantages! 😊
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It was an honor to scan these amazing photographs.
It's an exciting day when rare historical images come through to be scanned. This week we had the honor of scanning photographs taken by the ship's photographer of the U.S.S. Wisconsin in 1945. The intimate details of this bold ship and it's crew were a sight to see!
The photos including scenes from Pearl Harbor, Japan, and more. Most of the photos meant business and war. Jets in formation. Canons being launched. However the best photographs were when the crew was given a break from the war. They were treated to a beer, some dancing and taste of regular life {however, usually still in uniform}.
I love seeing the history of our great country in such detail. Historical stock photos are easy to come by but the true intimate details are a great treasure.
Thank you to all those who have served and currently serve our great country. God bless America.
Are your home videos labeled?
You remember those days when you ripped through that thin plastic wrapping of a brand new blank video cassette. That little cassette was about to hold somewhere between 30 to 120 minutes of your most amazing memorable time.
But did you label it??
Everyone is so different. I love that!
We receive orders of all kinds of memories everyday. From those of you that have some serious OCD about labeling to those who blop down the box of cassettes and say something like "I have no idea if there is even anything on these?"
So what kind are you? The Amazing-Label-er? The I-Label-The-Super-Important-Stuff? Or, the These-Could-Be-Blank-For-All-I-Know kind?
Now for some fun facts:
Some 6 billion video tapes like VHS tapes were sold in the US with an average length of 2 hours each. Can you believe that's 12 billion hours of footage of brand new babies, first wobbly steps, perfect weddings, backyard barbecues, and graduations.
Did you know that videotapes were never meant to be a permanent medium? What? Ridiculous! Their deterioration strikes them in as little as 20 years, even when stored under optimal conditions. What's even worse is that less than 1% of these memories have been transferred to digital, a much more durable and lossless format.
If you own some of the 99% of the videos that haven't been converted know yours are in good hands with us.
Now for the good news:
Once your videos are digital you can view them easily on your TV and then label your brand new shiny DVDs. Yippee!
"Have you ever seen one of those Brownie cameras?"
"You know that camera you hold right about here, look down and snap a photograph?" questioned a recent client, Hollis, in Jacksonville.
The next time we met to continue his scanning project to my delight he brought it with him. He confessed it wasn't the one he grew up with but when he saw it in a little shop for sale a few years back he just had to bring it home with him.
I had never come across one of these cameras before and was thrilled to see how it worked. Seriously, such a great light-weight camera. He let me give it a try too.
That evening I couldn't resist going online and researching a bit about this little cube camera. It appears it was marketed to school aged children for a mere dollar. So easy to use that even children could figure it out and as a bonus you could load the film in the daylight. What? Amazing.
The Brownie camera was sold in various designs from the 20's to the 60's all outputting photos 2-1/4" by 2-1/4". Now it's time to scan those photos from your childhood camera like Hollis and know they are safely preserved forever.
Unlock those precious memories {Blog Post from the Coconut Grove Gravevine}
It always feels amazing to be published! Checkout this post about DittoBee featured on the blog Coconut Grove Grapevine. This blog is great to be in the know of all the happenings in and around Coconut Grove, Florida where our flagship location is.
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