Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not sold on the whole digital thing, yet. a) Until they can capture all of the information of a cineon file, it's not even in the ballpark of what film can handle. b) I can see why all of the press agencies like AP are going digital. They need to beat the clock and their competitors to the front page (or web page), BUT c) The archival properties of digital stink. Storage formats and mediums become obsolete very quickly and the storage media deteriorates extremely fast compared to film. Then there's the example of the Lewinski shot, that probaly would have been erased, before it ever got backed up. It's already harder to get good footage from the Gulf War than from WWII or even WWI, because lot's of it was shot on Hi8 and the tapes have begun to flake. Properly stored film will last for hundreds of years, until it needs to be backed up. cheers, feli - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html