My Windows computer was very much an office tool.

Software of that day wasn’t designed to accommodate the ever growing digital memories. (Lake Garda, Italy, 2001) Yesteryear’s memory cards - note that they are sized in MB, as in mega, not gigabyte! Hello Apple Macintoshįast forward a few years and my digital photo library grew significantly. the “Willem museum”, ha! My computer in 2001, captured using the Digimax 800K No vintage photo filters applied: this is an untouched original digital photo from 2001. When I look at those pictures, it’s like visiting a museum. It captured some of my most interesting teenage memories. My first digital camera: a Samsung Digimax 800K shooting 1024x768px photosĭespite its limitations, I used this bad boy to take pictures. In every way it was extremely limited: it was very slow, it had a lousy battery life, it lacked a display and its memory card could only fit approximately 12 photos. It was a 0.8 megapixel camera from Samsung: a Digimax 800K.

Shooting digital photos since 2001ĭue to some luck (a relative won it in a lottery), I got my first digital camera in 2001. Read along to learn how I migrated my photo library away from the iCloud, using free, open source software. But for something as valuable as my personal memories, I want to be in full control. Apple came a long way since it launched iPhoto (the predecessor of iCloud Photos). After encountering the umpteenth ‘magic’ bug while managing my iPhone’s photos, I was done with it.

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