Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Subject: [Leica] Re: Darkroom to Digital and unrelated matters At 10:36 PM 8/5/99 +1000, you wrote: >Hey guys, > >Anybody going to stand up for the darkroom? <<I have no intention of switching to digital so I can't comment on the supposed "advantages." But then I don't have to meet deadlines or produce huge quantities of prints. I do have a long term concern with digital- that of longevity. I have a box full of wire recordings in my garage. Can anyone "convert" them? Tried reading an 8" floppy lately? Yes, I know that digital storage can be converted to new media when storage devices change. The question is "Will they be converted"? I suspect than many fine images will be lost.>> - ------ I see what you mean. In many cases it will happen just out of procrastination, until one waits too long and then it's a big deal to change mediums. But at the same time I'm not sure I understand what you are referring to as the alternative to, specifically digital images. Obviously not the print... My slides I don't worry about as much. But the negatives - I may be misunderstanding you here - but I've started archiving some to cd-rom (and then I can burn them into a whole lot). There is nothing worse than having a negative that is used often! (well - not really) But I'd like to preserve them - dig a whole or something. I think that digital is a tough thing for many photographers - in the sense that it may conflict, or may not, with their definition of photography and not leave much room for the traditional 'picture' to be respected, etc. This doesn't imply that anybody has to separate the two - not at all, but its something that certainly comes to issue at times. I think the real benefit that is upon us is that along with this there is at the same time 'better' ways to preserve. This will spread into various techniques that will satisfy more situations. Where does this go into undesirables? Perhaps it has something to do with the ability to determine HOW the image was created. This too, I would think, will advance simultaneously with the ability to actually create the images by increasingly numerous methods.