----- Original Message -----
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"
Subject: Re: Backing Up and Storing Files
On Jul 30, 2005, at 10:32 PM, William Robb wrote:
Just like film eh?
The nice thing about film is that it doesn't require "back ups".
The bad thing about film is that it cannot be backed up. Once it
deteriorates, it's gone forever.
Most images don't deserve to live as long as the medium anyway.
A few years ago, I was asked by the local governmant archives people to
print some old negs for them. They desired pretty persnickety handling of
them.
So down I went to the archived building, they handed me a metal storage box
and off I went home.
With a box of 8x10 nitrate negatives from the turn of the last century.
Pictures of Indian Chiefs of the day, sitting for portraits by some now
forgotten photographer.
I thought one of them was Sitting Bull, but a quick history check makes this
pretty unlikely, nitrate film was introduced in 1889, he died in 1890.
William Robb
