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From: "Mark Roberts"
Subject: Re: on paper (was: Re: Our Book and other book pictures)
At the risk of being Mafud......
The vast majority of digital images are, I expect, on non backed up hard
drives, or non backed up optical media, both of which can suffer
catastrophic failure without any indication that they are failing.
Certainly the same can happen with film, but I'll bet you a nickel that
in the hands of the average user, film is far more archival than digital.
You could be right, but I'll bet it's very close. The number of people who
save their negs is a tiny fraction of all photographers. Mostly serious
shooters like those of us on this list (and I've lost more negatives than
digital files over the years). I saw lots of people come into the photo
store where I worked looking to get copies from old prints. None from old
negatives.
Absolutely true about where copies of prints tended to be sourced from, but
at least they have the print. Lots of digital image files never get put to
paper, very few negatives were, during my photofinishing career, left out of
the printing process.
William Robb
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