Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: NO MORE DARKROOM?
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:10:02 -0400

Tina Manley jotted down the following:

> The new inks and papers are more archival than darkroom prints.

We've had paper photography for how long?  100 years?  And digital ink
photography for what, 10?  15?

I for one do not believe the "accellerated aging" tests used by
manufacturers.  There is too much variability in the world to be
conveniently captured by a simple test and crunched into two weeks under
UV-lamps.

The only true test of archival quality is time.  Lots of it.

M. 

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