You got us in trouble last time you did that Fateli.

For a lot of us other people’s photographs will look better than they are and our own will look worse than they are.

Remember you see all your own flaws, but you only see the best of others because that’s all anybody ever shows.

We’ll have to see if embedding content credentials takes off in cameras so the details can be kept and not erased.

Weird that we all get into this after a death in the family. My dad passed away a few years ago and first I wanted to digitize some old pics of him, but then it evolved into digitizing EVERYTHING from out family and my grandparents too. It’s actually really fun going though all those old pics, which helps because its a massive undertaking. It becomes a little side hobby in itself.

So if you’re willing to put in the time, getting a good flatbed scanner and cranking through pics is a good way to spend an evening while watch movies or something in the background. If you’re less inclined to take up your free time doing it you may want to go towards paying for a service to do it for you.

Flatbed scanners are the most versatile and can give you great results but they’re all slow, the Epson Perfection scanners are pretty much the most common scanners to get. If you have a bunch of negatives and already have a good digital camera, a camera based negative scanner works great and is pretty fast.

Scanning from negatives is always preferred if you can get them. Also think carefully of your organization and archiving. You’re probably going to want to sort and organize them, and your organization may change later in your process. In my setup my computer folder structure matches my physical folder structure, each roll has the same folder name in real life and in the computer. Then with Lightroom I can use face tagging to identify people, Keywording to identify places, and add EXIF data to give approx dates.

Internet trends. Many people are actually interested in the photography. But the majority are just following the trends they see others following.

I’m all about the convertible mitten fingerless gloves. There are budget $15 options all the way up to $80.

Also you can get glove liners with touchscreen pads on the fingertips to either use as mild weather gloves or put inside the convertible gloves for a boost in really cold weather.

Crop factor equivalency for apeture is referring to the perceived depth of field with a different lens, not the brightness.

An f/2.8 lens will shoot as fast as f/2.8 does, no matter what you put it on.

Sensor quality isn’t defined by apeture so no. The 1" sensor has less surface area “measuring light” than the APS-C. So it will generally perform less, but there are also so many other variables so it’s complex.

That being said, getting lots of light to it with the large apeture is great and helps it do better in low light. Although apeture equivalency is talking about depth of field not brightness of the light coming through to expose the sensor. But the larger apeture will allow you to use a smaller ISO which might help that low light IQ gap with the APS-C.