Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Ah, Steve, that black and white from 1908 - which is indeed important, > to you and to others interested in various thing about that time, is > faded? A black and white? ;-) Anyone read the story of the Bettman Archive - all those wonderful historic photographs bought up (to cries of alarm) by Bill Gates/Corbis? All that nice old B&W white (and colour) stuff deteriorating so badly Gates now has it locked away in a mine at sub zero temperatures. It's the only way to save it - that, and slowly digitizing it. Otherwise it would all be on it's way to being long gone - as are the majority of photographs not kept in ideal (expensively ideal) conditions (and then, of course, there are the biggest destroyers of archives - flood, fire, theft and earthquake - or if you are in Iraq - conflict). Digital versions can be kept at more than one site. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0306/cpmine.html read the story, watch the video at the bottom - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html