Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I work from my digital files from the early 2000's when I started shooting digital they are in my same folder as my files going to this year. By year. I have 14 yearly files labeled by year I've been shooting digital 14 years. They have not "faded". And by that I'd assume we mean gotten corrupted. As if the 0's and 1's got messed up the result would not be subtle. The sensors were so bad those days one could think that was the case though. Digital fading. But then again when I processed it now it looks better because the software is better and I'm better at using it. I was near clueless on photo crunching in 2004. Here's one from 11 years ago Nikon D100 4/1/04, 9:40:24 PM, Fullers Coffee Shop Illuminated with red neon, 24.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-4.5D http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/040401_214024.jpg.html Or http://tinyurl.com/n5wkqco On 5/14/15 1:17 AM, "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org> wrote: > Canadian Archive uses microfiche which are stable for 100+ years (or > acid-free > paper for documents). The Canadian census was stored that way. ?was? > because I > am not sure we have a real census any more. Digital storage is very > ephemeral. I doubt if most digital storage will last more than 10 years. > Those > 1?s randomly change to 0?s far too frequently. I don?t think archivist like > digital media very much. > Regards, Spencer _______________________________________________ Leica > Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/