On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:29:29AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Sessoms" >> Film is NOT forever, BTW. You have to take care of it. > Digital is NOT forever either, and you have to take even more care of it.
NOTHING is forever. (Diamonds have a half life of about a billion years at STP, for instance. Then you get graphite...) Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but film negatives can't be copied without loss. Digital raw files can be; this allows a distributed backup. Doesn't mean you're going to do it, but digital has the potential to be much less subject to disaster than film is, because digital doesn't stick you with having to protect the sole copy. -- Graydon, who will try not to start chanting "three copies of everything" -- 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.
