On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> My mother is having an (ahem) advanced birthday next week, and I went >> digging around for some old photos. >> >> Well, there are thousands and thousands of photos in this house, prints >> here, slides there, the negatives someplace else. Slides from about 1992 >> onwards are fairly systematically filed in slide pages in loose leaf >> notebooks, but there are still scads of prints and negs, because sometimes >> (for some reason) I shot print film. >> >> This reminded me that a key advantage of digital is that it is tidy. >> Instead of shoeboxes and closets and drawers full of photos, things are >> neatly stored on hard drives, catalogued by date in Lightroom. >> >> It also reminded me of a key disadvantage of digital. I pulled out slides >> and negs I shot in 1965, and they're a bit dusty and faded, but viewable >> with a light box and loupe, and printable. Will anybody be able to view my >> DNGs in 2051? >> >> Then there was the weird time travel of old family photos, and shots from >> old family vacations and holidays and homes. >> >> Makes me feel old. I think I'll go to bed. >> > > Yes. > > Your hard drive pooches and you never backed up and yes, you can > recover the data but it will be time consuming, and if you didn't have > friends in the world of computers it would be expensive and so on and > so on and so on. > > Not that negs and prints can't be damaged in basement floods, fires, > ripped, scratched, etc. Still, I find it comforting to hold the > actual image in my hands (even in negative form) and look at it - > without any conversion device required. I like that about film. > > cheers, > frank
Shoot film, scan and archive. Get both ;-) -The guy currently scanning a roll of HP5+ in 120 -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
