On Feb 28, 2009, at 1:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 2/27/2009 7:56:08 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Film is forever. When we're old and breathing our last, we'll all
make
one last stand in the darkroom, breathe the pungent fumes of hypoid
and praise the gods of silver and cellulose.
Yeah. Right.
Paul
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Well, there is a tiny little problem with digital cameras --
archiving your
photos.
Negatives kept. As much as I like my digital camera I am fully
aware my
options for saving my photos is not as good as it once was. I think
it is a big
boondoggle waiting to happen -- for a lot of people. We can back up
to drives,
back up to DVDs, etc. But what if we aren't around, and no one backs
up to
the new media when it comes along? Poof -- our photos are gone.
(Remember 5.25
drives? if you have anything on a 5.25 floppy that you didn't
transfer over
to 3.5 you better forget it, hard to find a 5.25 drive now. For that
matter
it's not that easy to find computers equipped with 3.5 drives
anymore either.
Though you can still find 3.25 drives around to buy.)
Unless someone comes up with a really foolproof archival medium,
which may
happen. Godfrey says the best archive is a print, and he is right.
But how
many of us print all our photos? I only print a few to hang.
I have close to 1000 prints that I've made from digital images in
storage, in albums and on the wall. As far as I know, I have a file
for every digital image I've ever made, including some digital stills
I shot of my kids more than 25 years ago with a computer eyes card, an
apple // and a video camera. On the other hand, I lost some negs in
the last flood we experienced. I'm more careful with negative storage
now, but I suspect both my digital and film images will far outlast me
and most likely my children as well.
Paul
In the long run, it won't matter with mine so much, but what about
all those
family photos that may be lost? I am doing family history now and
then, and
I come across photos that were taken over 70 years ago, even longer
ago than
that, still good (I scan them in). What if Uncle Jim took great
family
photos, digital, but when he died no one transferred to the new
media? And some
nephew of his in about ten years wants to do family history and,
boy, he can't
read the media Uncle Jim saved his photos on.
Much as I love my computer I am fully aware of its limitations. We
haven't
solved this problem yet, at all.
Progress isn't always progress, because sometimes it goes so fast
all the
implications aren't fully explored and thought out ahead of time.
Not that I would give up my digital camera and go back to film.
OTOH, if I
had to, I would.
Marnie
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