Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/4/06 7:57 PM, "Philip Forrest" <photo.forrest@earthlink.net> typed: > You could just store your negatives in archival pages, in a dry case (the > proverbial "shoebox") and dig them up in 10 years for use. No information > loss that way. No need to keep an ancient copy of Photoshop CS around. > Sorry, I just had to. > Phil > There IS information loss though with negatives. Every day in every way. Your negatives are getting fadier and fadier. Nowhere as fast as paper silver gelatin prints. Even archival paper silver gelatin prints. But negatives are analog information in substrates and layers of this and that which are in flux. We know not when or what they are going to do next under which conditions. Time itself being the big question mark. I don't believe in bathing them in UV lamp banks to try to replicate a time machine. There has to be a big wheel spinning behind the thing. And Warlocks. And Yvette Mimieux as Weena. All I know is... In the year 2525 your negs are not going to be easy to print using methods we know now what. They will be fig Newton's of your own imagination in THAT regard. But they may make great hyperkinetic self substantiating holograms. Those should be invented around the year 2424. You just set them on the table and spin them and they keep spinning and spinning then a little man jumps up and says... Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope! Mark Rabiner New York, NY