Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Perhaps of interest to those on the list whose images are wholly digital: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html?ref=books > <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html?ref=books&pagewanted > =all> &pagewanted=all > I'm surprised this one slipped though the whole premise is fantasyland cherished in academia but in the real world people know better. I trust digital media far more than I do film or paper. " authors, are ultimately just a series of digits ? 0?s and 1?s ? written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper. Even if those storage media do survive, the relentless march of technology can mean that the older equipment " [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner