History
Photography has undergone several revolutionary changes since the "Camera obscura" in the 10th to 15th centuries. In the earliest times the image wasn't preserved, only viewed. Later, hand drawings were traced from the projected image. In the last century or two, light sensitive emulsions have been used to preserve and display the image.

The need
The photography industry "developed" a chemical process that will both create and then store images for fairly long periods of time. They succeeded with "archival" 100 year life in some limited professional products. But millions of 50 year old standard photographs are dying from slow chemical changes. They are the family heirlooms in your collection. Take a look.

The cure for aging photographs
Today's computer digital image is the solution. It is not light sensitive and its binary code is as secure as the storage system that holds it. The photographic industry has fully embraced the digital image as the photographic system for today. For anyone with computer skills, it is easy to save, edit, store, display and share the digital photograph or image. But there are many folks without these skills or equipment.

T.E.Datum has the solution. Old emulsion process photographs or transparencies (slides) of any type are scanned into electronic format with no damage to the original. From that point anything can be done with the digital image. Read through this web site and discover all the possibilities.

See how T.E.Datum can help you preserve and present the irreplaceable visual history contained in your old photo archives. No technical skills required by our customers.