On Jul 28, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
... Yet I know my slides from the early 70s are OK. What I want is
digital
flexibility and film storage certainties. ...
I've lost far more of film photographs then I have of digital
photographs through deterioration/failure of the media. Matter of
fact, I've retrieved more of my old film photographs through use of
digital means than I ever could through reprinting the now long-
departed or damaged negatives/slides.
I think the "certainties" you speak of are far from reality.
Godfrey