[Leica] If You Really Want Your Pictures to Last...

[wharting at verizon.net (bill harting)]

When my pictures are collected, the museums will have to worry about this.

paper is good enough for me

bill h  ("look upon my works ye mighty and despair!", I figure)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Atherton" <timatherton@theedge.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 2:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] If You Really Want Your Pictures to Last...


>
> > ideal conditions, if you keep migrating, etc etc. Reality - it
> > will be as difficult to read your CDs and DVDs in 75 years as it
> > would be to play your Edison Cylinders today. Will all those with
> > wire recorders please raise your hands - what? you didn't migrate
> > your wire?
>
> Interestingly though you can buy such recordings on CD, from wax
cylinders -
> I guess over time they were reformatted....
>
> then again, if you happened to store the negs of your wedding photographs
in
> a shoe box (lots of nice stuff in that cardboard) on the shelf over the
> radiator in your damp basement I doubt you will be able to print those
> either.
>
> I've spent countless hours working on many many prints and negatives from
> 100 years ago (indeed 50 years ago) that are in very poor condition now.
>
> tim
>
>
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