On 8/26/2015 10:06 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
Matthew Hunt wrote:
As for why, I meet up from time to time with a few people who project 35mm slides, mostly of our local area as it was some years ago. As I took slides for decades and am starting to do so again, I have a large range to show, but I have a gap of many years where I've only had a digital camera. I'd like to get a number of them in film slide form to show them. I'm fully aware that digital projectors are coming down in price, but this isn't about new technology. It is a fairly pointless exercise in technological terms, but this is just for fun and the old projectors and slides are part of that atmosphere. You always hear about converting images the other way to digital format, but for the first time was asked about going the other way to film and that interested me. I'll give it a roll of film and see what is - or what isn't - possible. Malcolm
There is still a lively debate going on regarding digital vs film as a long term storage medium. When I first joined PDML back in 2009 or so, the National Register of Historic Places still required documentation photos for properties proposed for addition to and/or preservation work to be photographed on 4x5 TMAX 100. A thousand years from now, when future archeologists are digging out the foundations of our civilization, the information in a safety deposit box full of old negatives will be a lot more accessible than a safety deposit box with an old USB hard-drive. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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.
