Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Just a thought > Close....My point is that what collectors are collecting - on the whole - is photography, work by noted photographers, NOT examples of printing technology. As digital printing matures, and as it becomes the standard - and it will - it will be just as collectible as "silver" > prints are - because the collectible photographers will be printing digitally... > > B. D. B. D., as someone who's been putting in long hours FB printing this past week, I've been following what you're saying. I don't want to be contentious, as I am actually quite ignorant about most printing processes, but my first concern is longevity: are the new digital prints as archival as the old wet prints? Cheers, Dave