[Captain Bomblast]

Something I've been stockpiling along with all the other gear is photo chemicals, paper and film... as well as an army of Pentax Spotmatics. I was trained as a photographer and have always believed that the "old" ways of making photographs might come back into fashion if ever the digi world fails. I figure it might well be someone's responsibility to document the events of a post SHTF scenario. I have also picked up a few wind-up 8mm movie cameras, but they will need some work. Anyone else out there have any ideas on how to best go about the job of documentation?

 

[js3407]

I guess we could do like the courtroom sketches???

 

[Cool Hand]

Personally, not something I would want to remember. The only thing I would want to document is how NOT to let it occur again.

 

[MikeK]

I still have several 35mm cameras. One of my older units, a Leica, doesn't need batteries. I have stockpiled a lot of film, thinking essentially the same thing as you. To chronicle what life was like. I dabbled in developing when I was a kid, but I don't have the gear for it anymore. So I figure I'll hold on to the negatives and maybe some day I'd be able to get them developed, or at least they'd come in handy for someone.

 

[Raven]

I think it's important to photodocument as much as possible. It's a visual means of documenting history and helps to substantiate it as fact.

There are many out there who have tried to suggest the holocaust was a farce; photodocumentation has helped to provide a means of visual proof of the atrocities that occured.

And this is a valuable skill-set, imo. I say, do it up; if you have the means to do so.

 

[mangyhyena]

How about diaries and journals? Written descriptions are another way to document. Can be as low tech or high tech as you want.

For the artists out there, how about paintings and drawings?

I think it's important that someone documents things post shtf or teotwawki. Maybe future generations can learn something from the history we're making today.

 

[MikeK]

How about diaries and journals? Written descriptions are another way to document. Can be as low tech or high tech as you want.

For the artists out there, how about paintings and drawings?

I think it's important that someone documents things post shtf or teotwawki. Maybe future generations can learn something from the history we're making today.

I think it's all very important. History is going to need a record of this, or like usual, they'll invent their own. I don't write so I'm probably not going to do much more than keep notes. But I like that idea a lot. Same with drawing and painting.

 

[oktx]

How about diaries and journals? Written descriptions are another way to document. Can be as low tech or high tech as you want.

For the artists out there, how about paintings and drawings?

I think it's important that someone documents things post shtf or teotwawki. Maybe future generations can learn something from the history we're making today.

All that we know of the Revolutionary war (and most of history, actually) is through journals, letters, and other documents of the time period. You'd think we wouldn't know much but actually a lot of records remained to be archived.

In fact, I was thinking about this when we watched "300" a couple days ago. Xerxes threatened to destroy all documentation that Leonidas of Sparta existed so that no one would know he ever was.

In our disposable and microwave society, I wonder how many people live their lives in such a way that future generations will never know they existed?

I have more thoughts but I'm too sleepy and they're all jumbled in my mind. Hope to come back to this later tomorrow.

 

[fullofit]

I think it is a phenomenal idea, the best prevention for future events is to document the current one in photos.

The photos of the holocaust certainly cause us to rise up to prevent another one...without the photos we really could not grasp the devastation of what happened.